Staying Up

Staying Up

30 mins | May 7, 2002

Set in 1990 on an Air Force base in the mid-Atlantic. Billy is desperate to listen to his team Middlesborough, play Newcastle United. But Billy's quest for diversion masks an unspoken trauma in his past which he is forced to confront.

Staying Up

30 mins | May 7, 2002

Staying Up
Set in 1990 on an Air Force base in the mid-Atlantic. Billy is desperate to listen to his team Middlesborough, play Newcastle United. But Billy's quest for diversion masks an unspoken trauma in his past which he is forced to confront.
Producers BBC, Fiction Lab
Original title Staying Up
Directors Michael Wadding
Writers Harry Pearson

Cast

Stephen Tompkinson

as Billy Gowland

Elizabeth Carling

as Carol Gowland

Christopher Fulford

as Sgt. Hawke

Johnny Vegas

as Frank O'Hanlon

David MacCreedy

as Craig

Craig Heaney

as Omar Watson