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Giving Tongue (1995) Country of Origin: UK
Date(s) of Broadcast: 1995
Number of Seasons: N/A
Total Number of Episodes: 1
Average Episode Running Times:
Format: colour
Sound: CREDITS PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Beechgrange / Irish Screen / BBC
Executive Producer: George Faber
Producer: Colin Ludlow
Co-Producer: Emma Burge
Production Manager: John McDonnell
Production Coordinator: Fran Byrne SCRIPT
Script: Emma Fortune
Script Editor: Kate Harwood DIRECTION
Director: Stefan Schwartz
1st Assistant Director: Ben Gibney
2nd Assistant Director: Suzanne Nicell
3rd Assistant Director: Andrew Hegarty PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Henry Braham
Camera Operator: Kenny Byrne
Focus Puller: Ciaran Barry
Clapper Loader: Ritchie Donnelly
Grip: Philip Murphy
Lighting Gaffer: Larry Randall
Electrician: Con Dempsey, Brian Sheridan EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Derek Trigg MUSIC
Music: Hughes and Murphy
Pony Club Song: Ari Ashley SOUND
Sound Recordist: Trevor O'Connor
Boom Operator: Pat Doyle
Dubbing Editors: Keith Mason, Paul McFadden
Dubbing Mixer: Peter Maxwell MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Chief Make Up Artist: Morna Ferguson
Chief Hair: Orla Carroll
Costume Designer: Driscoll Calder
Wardrobe Mistress: Sue Wain DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Joseph Bennett
Art Director: Niamh Barry
Design Assistant: Laura Bowe
Prop Master: Nuala McKernan
Prop Buyer: Tina Brophy
Construction Manager: Russ Bailey MISCELLANEOUS
Script Supervisor: Jean Skinner
Production Accountant: David Sheehy
Production Assistant: Liz Kenny
Horse Masters: Tony Doyle, Donal Fortune LOCATIONS
Location Manager (Ireland): Dougal Cousins
Location Manager (UK): Stan Fus
Location Assistant: Melanie Gore-Grimes CASTING
Casting Director: Kate Day CAST
Clare Holman (Jessie Fielding)
Charlotte Coleman (Barbara Gale)
Michael Angelis (Will Shaker)
John Bird (Hector Jessup)
Peter Capaldi (Duncan Fielding)
Warren Clarke (Russell Pollin)
Clive Francis (Ian Llewllyn Groves)
Jane Lapotaire (Hilda Jacob)
Paul Venables (Plymouth West)
Shireen Shah (Bradford East)
Brian McGrath (Robert Payton)
John Bardon (Stan Gale)
Stephen Lord (Lionel Giddings)
Shaughan Seymour (Sir Ashley Snaithe)
Agnes Bernelle (Winnie Hawcock)
Brian De Salvo (Deputy Speaker)
Jane Wymark (Forest of Dean)
Mal Whyte (Leeds North)
John Olohan (train barman)
Tenniel Evans (Marquis of Bideford)
Michael Bertenshaw (Lords clerk)
Nigel Hastings (army captain)
Richard Croxford (huntsman)
Ari Ashley (huntswoman)
Randal Herley (sponsor)
Stuart Burge (Clackmannon)
Eamon Rohan (cloak master)
John Boswell (Lord Belvoir)
Hugh Sachs (crank heir)
John Fortune (cheif executive)
Conor Mullin (journalist)
John Abineri (Lord Chancellor)
Nicholas Selby (elderly peer)
Jeremy Bulloch (auctioneer)
Otto Jarman (TV reporter)
Michael Ford (Adrian Trethenick)
Hugh Munro (clerk of the crown)
Elizabeth Richard (The Queen) SUMMARY In the near future, newly elected Labour MP Jessie Fielding is reunited with her wealthy, middle-class childhood friend Barbara Gale, a reunion which awakens old feelings. Jessie has just successfully put a bill through the Commons outlawing fox hunting, a move which sits uneasily with Barbara and her snooty family and friends, though this doesn't stop her rekindling their lesbian affair. Meanwhile, the House of Lords looks set to block the bill and the the Prime Minister plans to use this to fulfill his own agenda... CAPSULE REVIEW At the time of its broadcast, there were many viewers who were probably convinced that this was going to remain a vaguely futuristic socio-political satire - after 18 years of Tory rule, who would ever believe in something as far fetched as a Labour government? And yet a couple of years later, it had come to pass. Sadly, anyone expecting a scathing work of satire from Giving Tongue were to be disappointed - Giving Tongue is less a work of political analysis and extrapolation than it is a study of middle class lesbianism. To those ends it succeeds well enough, but to be honest there's nothing here we haven't already seen a dozen times before. A profusion of flashbacks makes for a clumsy first half and the second half is not that much more interesting, due in no small part to the almost wholly unengaging characters - we never really care all that much about Jessie or Barbara, let alone the plethora of supporting characters. It's importance to the genre is minimal and its inclusion here is simply for the sake of completeness. REFERENCES OTHER SOURCES screen
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near future; fox hunting; politics; politicians; royalty
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