The Mail on Sunday

Secret Cold War military manoeuvres Down Under

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Ewen Leslie, familiar to British viewers from Top Of The Lake, The Luminaries and The Cry, takes the lead in a six-part satirical Australian series. The plot is inspired by a little-known, controvers­ial period during which the British carried out nuclear testing in the Outback during the Cold War. Leslie plays Second World War veteran Major Leo Carmichael, whose job is to keep a secret base operating smoothly, but his role is made difficult by his eccentric staff and a family of Aborigines who want to know more about the exploding clouds they’ve seen nearby… Acorn TV, from Monday

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