The Last Post (TV series)

The Last Post is a British television drama series first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One from 1 October to 5 November 2017. It is set in the backdrop of the Aden Emergency and a unit of the Royal Military Police depicting the conflict and the relationships of the men and their families together and with the local population. In May 2018, it was reported that a second series would not be commissioned.

Cast

 * Jessie Buckley as Honor Martin
 * Stephen Campbell Moore as Lieutenant Ed Laithwaite
 * Amanda Drew as Mary Markham
 * Ben Miles as Major Harry Markham
 * Jeremy Neumark Jones as Captain Joe Martin
 * Jessica Raine as Alison Laithwaite
 * Ouidad Elma as Yusra Saeed
 * Chris Reilly as Sergeant Alex Baxter
 * Tom Glynn-Carney as Lance Corporal Tony Armstrong
 * Louis Greatorex as Lance Corporal Paul Stoneham
 * Richard Dillane as Harvey Tillbrook
 * Kevin Sutton as Corporal Israel Orchover
 * Essie Davis as Martha Franklin
 * Toby Woolf as George Markham
 * Aymen Hamdouchi as Kadir Hakim (Starfish)
 * Joseph Kennedy as Captain Nick Page

Conception
Executive producer of Bonafide Films' Margery Bone proposed a story about the British Army/Royal Military Police and life on a military base. She approached Peter Moffat who had a military family background. Moffat suggested setting the series in the 1960s at the end of the British Empire with military personnel posted with their wives to a strategically important place. This gave a way to explore twentieth century British attitudes through a tightly knit group of people.

Location
The producers needed a location similar to Aden with coast, mountains and desert and a colonial architectural influence, settling on Cape Town. A disused British naval base overlooking Simon's Town bay provided a scale which is often difficult to achieve for television.