T. Dan Smith
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Thomas Daniel Smith, also known by his nickname “Mr Newcastle”, was a British Labour Party politician who served as chairman of the Newcastle Labour Party from 1953 to 1965, and as Leader of Newcastle
Smith on After Dark in 1988
Our Friends in the North
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Our Friends in the North is a British television drama serial produced by the BBC. It was originally broadcast in nine episodes on BBC2 in early 1996. Written by Peter Flannery, it tells the story of
T. Dan Smith
…Beyond the Law?, along with David Napley and others. Smith's career was the inspiration for Austin Donohue, a character in Peter Flannery's play Our Friends in the North. The part was first played by Jim Broadbent in the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1982, and then by Alun Armstrong in the 1996 BBC television…
Opening title sequence of Our Friends in the North
Northumberland Street in Newcastle upon Tyne, pictured in 1969 before it was pedestrianised. Life in Newcastle in the 1960s was a major influence on Peter Flannery's writing of Our Friends in the North.
Daniel Craig (pictured in 2015) played George 'Geordie' Peacock, one of the four main characters in Our Friends in the North. It was one of his first major starring roles on British television.
Mark Strong (pictured in 2010) played Terry 'Tosker' Cox across thirty years of his life in Our Friends in the North, from a young man in 1964 to middle-age in 1995.