The Hour is a 2011
BBC drama series centred on a new
current-affairs show being launched by the BBC in June 1956, at the time of the
Hungarian Revolution and
Suez Crisis. It stars
Ben Whishaw,
Dominic West, and
Romola Garai, with a supporting cast including
Tim Pigott-Smith,
Juliet Stevenson,
Burn Gorman,
Anton Lesser,
Anna Chancellor,
Julian Rhind-Tutt, and
Oona Chaplin. It was written by
Abi Morgan (also one of the executive producers, alongside Jane Featherstone and
Derek Wax).