''Killing Hitler'' is a
BBC drama
Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on Radio drama, radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a g ...
examining the ''
Operation Foxley'' plot to kill
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...
. Written and directed by Jeremy Lovering, it was first broadcast on 30 March 2003.
Cast
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Peter McDonald as LB/X
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Kenneth Cranham
Kenneth Cranham (born 12 December 1944) is a Scottish film, television, radio and stage actor.
Early life
Cranham was born in Dunfermline, Fife, the son of Lochgelly-born Margaret McKay Cranham (née Ferguson) and Ronald Cranham, a London-bor ...
as
Brigadier Sir Stewart Menzies
* Kate Ashford as Rachel Cathcart
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Keith Allen as
Major General Colin Gubbins
External links
''Killing Hitler''by Professor Duncan Anderson at ''
BBC History
''BBC History Magazine'' is a British publication devoted to both British and world history and aimed at all levels of knowledge and interest. The publication releases thirteen editions a year, one per month and a Christmas special edition, an ...
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Characters in ''Killing Hitler''at ''BBC History''
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BBC television dramas
Failed assassins of Adolf Hitler
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