What comes after salting the battlefield?
Page Eight, Salting The Battlefield and Turks & Caicos make up The Worricker Trilogy.
Is salting the battlefield a sequel?
This is a 3-disc set of a spy series. The first is Page Eight, the second, Turks & Caicos, and the third is Salting the Battlefield. The three are connected so that you can say this is a trilogy or it can be a mini-series.
Where was salting the battlefield filmed?
It was filmed in London and Turks & Caicos. Johnny Worricker has walked out of his job at MI5, going to the airport apparently to choose his destination at random.
What order are the worricker films?
Page Eight2011
Turks & Caicos2014Salting the Battlefield2014
Worricker Trilogy/Movies
Which came first salting the battlefield or Turks & Caicos?
| Salting the Battlefield | |
|---|---|
| Original release | 27 March 2014 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Turks & Caicos |
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What came first salting the battlefield or Turks and Caicos?
Turks & Caicos (film)
| Turks & Caicos | |
|---|---|
| Original release | 20 March 2014 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Page Eight |
| Followed by | Salting the Battlefield |
What follows Turks and Caicos?
Salting the Battlefield
Turks & Caicos (film)
| Turks & Caicos | |
|---|---|
| Original release | 20 March 2014 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Page Eight |
| Followed by | Salting the Battlefield |
Which came first Salting the Battlefield or Turks & Caicos?
How many Johnny worricker movies are there?
All three films feature Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy), a long-serving MI5 officer, who learns that the Prime Minister knew about secret US rendition camps long before the British intelligence community knew about them.
Is Page 8 a true story?
Spooks you can believe in: With a plot based on real-life MI5 , David Hare’s one-off BBC spy drama, Page Eight, is as close as you’ll get to the real thing… The name’s Worricker, Johnny Worricker – a secret agent licensed to inject some espionage thrills into Bank Holiday’s TV schedules.
What is meant by Salting the Battlefield?
There’s considerable scope for interpreting what is meant by salting the battlefield. Generally it has come to mean making the land useless after a battle is fought. However, it is often used in the fifth sense above to mean ‘covertly’ or ‘underhandedly’ bending the environment to suit a purpose.
What does the term Salting the Battlefield mean?
destroying utterly
Writer David Hare has said: ”After the Romans came and wiped you out and destroyed you and killed all your young men, they then threw salt on the battlefield so that your crops would never grow. So salting the battlefield means destroying utterly.
Who is the director of salting the battlefield?
Salting the Battlefield is a 2014 British action drama/political thriller television film, written and directed for the BBC by the British writer David Hare.
What does the term’salting the battlefield’mean?
Salting the battlefield. and this definition seems related to the title but I’m not sure. salting n (Physical Geography) (often plural) an area of low ground regularly inundated with salt water; often taken to include its halophyte vegetation; a salt marsh.
What’s the rating of salting the battlefield Rotten Tomatoes?
Turks & Caicos and Salting the Battlefield… invite us to consider our own participation in the storytelling, to look past surfaces and think about how and why lies might be told, how identities might be changed or left behind or revisited. December 1, 2014 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…
Who is Bill Nighy in salting the battlefield?
On the run in Europe, former MI5 agent Johnny Worricker (Bill Nighy) returns home to confront the prime minister.