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Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs

1981TV Episode
Comedy
7.9
IMDB Rating
23 votes

Shelley is still gainfully unemployed - and his honest approach at interviews isn't exactly improving his job prospects. When an opportunity arises for a plum job at the foreign office, Fran and Mrs H feel a slightly different app...

Director
Anthony Parker
Writers
N/A
Stars
Hywel Bennett, Belinda Sinclair, Josephine Tewson
Release Date
January 19, 1981
💬 2
Reviews
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🎭 Top Cast

Hywel Bennett
Hywel Bennett
as James Shelley
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Belinda Sinclair
as Fran
Josephine Tewson
Josephine Tewson
as Mrs. Hawkins
James Cossins
James Cossins
as Bernard Nelson
Gaye Brown
Gaye Brown
as Grace Lissier
Antony Brown
Antony Brown
as Jenkins
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Ian Lowe
as Dorning
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Rohan McCullough
as Anna Seaton-Curtis

🎬 Technical Specs

🏷️ Keywords

job interviewlazy manhonestyreference to yugoslaviapay phone

🎯 Categories

Comedy

⭐ Featured Review

Foreign Affairs
by Prismark102021-04-02
10/10

"Shelley decides to be honest about his work history. He tells a prospective employer that he spent 4 years on the dole because he was lazy. Shelley does not get the job. In his next interview at the Foreign Office. Shelley cooks up an elaborate work history where he spent time with a tribe in Africa. The local language was incomprehensible even to the locals. Shelley spent time fitting the Stanley Baldwin's and the Ramsay McDonalds. The Ramsay was for the number twos. It is Shelley's sardonic wit against the Foreign Office interview panel. The three members of the panel seem to ..."

📖 Synopsis

Shelley is still gainfully unemployed - and his honest approach at interviews isn't exactly improving his job prospects. When an opportunity arises for a plum job at the foreign office, Fran and Mrs H feel a slightly different app...