A Man You Don't Meet Every Day

Overview

It's the mid-nineties in London and a couple meet through a lonely hearts column. She is an middle class English married woman, he is an lonely Irish mechanic. Despite the gulf between them they start an affair.

Directed by Angela Pope

Top cast

Harriet Walter

Charlotte

Richard Hawley

Jim

Peter Davison

Robert

Colum Convey

Bernie

J

John Keegan

Aidan

Conleth Hill

Michael

Doreen Mantle

Mrs Norton

Kika Mirylees

Caroline

B

Bill French

John

E

Eamon Maguire

Jack McConville

L

Lesley Taylor Jones

Eileen

J

Joanna Wake

Landlady

Ray Nicholas

Crack Dealer

E

Emma Hill

Newscaster

T

Tony Lockwood

Football Commentator

M

Marianne Hemming

Woman Upstairs

K

Kevin Kibbey

Man Upstairs

Shane MacGowan

Self (the Pogues)

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