Paul Ritter

And so it's a Western made show examining this event in the soviet union and it doesn't do it with any sense of disdain or with judgment it brings to light the truth which is there was there was a cover-up of the previous incident which meant even though all those terrible decisions and and anatoly

dietlov played brilliantly by paul ritter who's a horrible horrible character we'll get onto him death heavenly

bad decisions all the way through but also ultimately he did it with the level of belief that actually there's always this failsafe and it wasn't there and it just the way it kind of almost when it passes judgment it passes judgment with the truth that is out there it doesn't go you know The fact that they addressed that the Soviet Union, the way they designed the nuclear reactors was inferior because of cost to the Western civilization.

Done in a way that kind of is true to the truth of what happened, but not done in a way to make Soviet Russia the bad guys, which I think it could quite easily have done.

Emily Watson is amazing in this.

There's so many really good performances.

Paul Ritter.

Anyone who's only watched Friday Night

Well, you got to work with an actor who's sadly no longer with us.

And it was a real shock when he went, was Paul Ritter.

Yeah, Paul.

That wasn't the first time I'd worked with Paul.