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Upstairs Downstairs:
Season
One
(2010) release date: December 26th, 2010 production company: BBC Cymru Wales & Masterpiece
Directed by Euros Lyn & Saul Metzstein Screenplay
by
Eileen Atkins, John Hawkesworth & Jean Marsh
Music Composed and Produced
by Daniel Pemberton Orchestrated and Conducted by
Andrew Skeet Performed by The Chamber Orchestra of
London Recorded and Mixed by
Gareth Williams Recorded and Mixed at Abbey Road
Studios, London, UK Main Title Theme Composed by
Alexander Faris
Featured Musicians Oboe Dom
Kelly
Double Bass Steve Mair |
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Synopsis In 1936, Sir Hallam Holland and his
pretty young wife Lady Agnes return from a diplomatic posting
abroad and take up residence at 165 Eaton Place, formerly the
home of the Bellamy family but vacant for several years. By
chance, they ask Rose Buck, herself a long-time servant in the
Bellamy household, to find them a suitable staff. In the
end, Rose herself joins them as the Housekeeper. The
1930s are a difficult time in England. The
Depression has taken its toll with high levels of unemployment. Fascism,
which has become popular on the Continent in Italy
and Germany, is also finding followers in the UK with
Oswald Mosely's British Union of Fascists. As the new staff begin
their daily work, the downstairs family begins to take
shape. |
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