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AIRED: 11/14/12

1957: A new head of news, the cold-blooded Randall Brown, gives Bel trouble and so, increasingly, does Hector Madden.

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A new head of news makes Bel angry, whilst Hector's infidelities get him into big trouble - and Freddie returns with a surprise.

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By orswel, Nov 20, 2012

The second season of "The Hour" seems, from its opening segment, to have digested a few lessons from the critical attacks on Season One's inaccuracies - although it's unlikely that any showgirl (or prostitute) of 1957 would say anything as quaint as "None of your beeswax!", or that anyone would talk about "the usual suspects" in the manner of thirty or forty years later. If the night-club scenes are strongly reminiscent of the 1989 movie "Scandal", they don't suffer much from comparison, but naming the sinister Italian club-owner "Raphael Cilenti" seems a little outrageous to anyone who recalls the career of Sir Raphael Cilento, admittedly a fearful reactionary but also one of the twentieth century's great experts on tropical medicine (and also, by the bye, father of Diane Cilento and erstwhile father-in-law of Sean Connery). This episode hints at forthcoming plotlines about nuclear-age paranoia (what a pity that Romola Garai mispronounces "nuclear" as "nuke-u-lear"), about police corruption and race riots. However, Episode One mostly concerns itself with BBC/ITV rivalries and the impossible arrogance of Hector Madden, who now seems an even sillier fellow than in Series One.moreless
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Romola Garai	Bel Rowley
Dominic West	Hector Madden
Ben Whishaw	Freddie Lyon

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Peter Capaldi	Randall Brown	Guest Star
Tom Burke	Bill Kendall	Guest Star
Lizzie Brochere	Camille Mettier	Guest Star
Anna Chancellor	Lix Storm	Recurring Role
Julian Rhind-Tutt	Angus McCain	Recurring Role
Oona Chaplin	Marnie Madden	Recurring Role

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- Lix Storm: When Hector asked me what I knew about Randall Brown, I replied: nothing at all. Please don't make me lie to you, too.
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- Hector Madden: [on seeing Freddie's new beard]:
  Holy cow! It's Sigmund Freud - or Moses.
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