<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[Occupied Palestine | فلسطين]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[occupiedpalestine]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/author/hajarhajar/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[The Promise]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<h2>Michael Hogan preview The Promise, Peter Kosminsky&#8217;s new four-part drama about    the British peacekeeping force in 1940s Palestine.</h2>
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<div class="byline"><span class="bylineBody">By Michael Hogan</span> <span class="publishedDate">12:39PM GMT 04 Feb 2011</span></p>
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<p>Provocative writer/director Peter Kosminsky is the daddy of hard-hitting    “event drama”. He’s the man responsible for controversial films about the    police in Northern Ireland (Shoot to Kill), British Muslim suicide bombers    (Britz) and the death of Dr David Kelly (The Government Inspector). Now    comes this four-part epic about Israel.</p>
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<p>It follows feisty 18-year-old Londoner Erin (Little Dorrit’s Claire Foy) who    finds her terminally ill grandfather Len’s diary in his dusty Leeds home and    learns of his role as a sergeant in the postwar British force instructed to    keep the peace in Palestine. Visiting Tel Aviv for her gap year, she    retraces his steps to uncover a heartbreaking secret.</p>
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<p>Set in two time-frames to tell the pair’s parallel stories against the    backdrop of this complex conflict, it boasts an impressive cast that    includes Christian Cooke (Cemetery Junction) as Len and much-admired Israeli    actor Itay Tiran. It’s been a decade in the making and is fearsomely    well-researched, though it wears this attention to detail lightly to create    an exciting, powerful and exquisitely crafted drama. Bafta judges will be    watching. I recommend you do too.</p>
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<p>For a preview clip, click<strong> <a href="http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-promise/video/series-1/episode-1/a-summer-in-israel">here</a></strong>.</p>
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<p><em>&#8216;The Promise&#8217; begins on Channel 4 on Sunday February 6 at 9.00pm.</em></p>
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