Edge of Darkness
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Search complete. 14 mentions across 6 episodes found for "Edge of Darkness".
Oct 7, 2026
Lee TyersHOST
You know, he did loads.
Lee TyersHOST
Edge of, Edge of Darkness, that classic BBC mid-'80s drama.
Lee TyersHOST
Um, you know, and, and, and Tom Clegg has done, has done so much TV, TV work, I mean, from Sharp to Between the Lines.
Lee TyersHOST
Uh, he, he, he directed, um, directed Dennis Waterman in The Captain's Tower.
Matthew CastleHOST
And this feels like it's going to be political and it's going to be about, you know, the fact that there is a big sort of protest element to the storyline.
Matthew CastleHOST
You know, if it feels like it's going to be kind of engaging with some stuff, which may be, you know, taps into like the British tradition of like, oh, what was the what was that famous British TV? It was like a thriller four part thing about like Edge of Darkness.
Matthew CastleHOST
That's what this reminds me of.
Matthew CastleHOST
It's going to have that vibe.
Joseph OldhamGUEST
And all this eventually sort of consolidated into my PhD research project, which was the foundations for what became Paranoid Visions.
Joseph OldhamGUEST
And that was an idea to kind of try and link the 60 shows through some of the kind of paranoid conspiracy things, the 80s, like Edge of Darkness and the very British coup that I've been very interested in up to Spooks.
Joseph OldhamGUEST
And in amongst that, I sort of found my way to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, which I have to confess, I'd not actually really discovered before then.
Joseph OldhamGUEST
I kind of heard of it.
Gareth JonesHOST
The Barbican, for instance, you know, that's pretty brutalist in my view.
ZogHOST
Also very well used in the TV original version of Edge of Darkness.
Gareth JonesHOST
Oh, really? It's in that?
ZogHOST
Yeah.
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ZogHOST
He gets picked up at the airport by...
ZogHOST
Oh, God, I forget the name of the actor.
ZogHOST
He's the American actor who played... who in, well, we mentioned Edge of Darkness.
ZogHOST
Did we mention Edge of Darkness earlier? In Edge of Darkness, he played the American spook who worked with the British copper to investigate all of the...
David HughesHOST
It's a pity because aside from its superb cast, Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, Denholm Elliott, David Calder, Bill Paterson, Frederick Treves, Fulton Mackay, and Robbie Coltrane, not to mention cinematography by Roger Deakins, it's a cracking conspiracy thriller about the British state's coverup of a nuclear accident.
David HughesHOST
Perhaps the film is eclipsed by Troy Kennedy Martin's brilliant television series, Edge of Darkness, which aired just two months before Defence of the Realm went on general release.
David HughesHOST
But it holds up fantastically well as a worm's eye view of the state suppression of the press by any means necessary.
David HughesHOST
The worm in question being shoe leather tabloid journalist Nick Mullen, played brilliantly by Gabriel Byrne, who breaks a big story about a former left-wing MP with alleged links to the KGB, only to suspect that he's been played and that there's more to the matter than meets the eye.
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Martin StellmanGUEST
S- some- I'm sure someone will, will cor- will correct me or tell us what the correct name is, but it's a, it's, it's quite a well-known, uh, youth borstal, and it's near to Lakenheath, so it seemed to me to be completely logistically possible that these kids would have escaped, would be pursued, would arrive at, at this, um, you know, bleak location, uh, you know, with v- uh, very, very late at night, and not quite know what they'd, you know, what they'd arrived at
David HughesHOST
atWow, it's amazing.
David HughesHOST
So it is a completely accidental, unlike with, say, um, Edge of Darkness, which is one of this show's, one of this film's contemporaries, where Joanne Whalley's character is deliberately involved in the peace activism or whatever, and then that's how she gets kind of...
David HughesHOST
This is completely-
Matt SandersonHOST
that begins with these really nice powerful vignettes of this is what someone was doing when the bomb hit this is how their life ended here's the next one and the next one and the next one and then here's the survivors that actually make it to a shelter and all the horrific shit that they have to deal with plus there's giant fucking mutant rats that are running around the underground and killing people so yeah there's there's a little bit of that b-movie aspect to it But one that I think also draws upon the effects of radiation and what could happen in the event of a war, rather than it actually having a bond drop.
Matt SandersonHOST
Again, going back to good old BBC drama, Edge of Darkness.
Scott DorwardHOST
Yeah, yeah.
Matt SandersonHOST
Which I absolutely adore that show.
Matt SandersonHOST
Get it while it's hot.
Matt SandersonHOST
As he then brings it together and showers the backlight.
Jared LoganGUEST
I just found out about Edge of Darkness from reading Hot War.
Jared LoganGUEST
Hot War lists it as an inspiration.