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EWAN McGREGOR DEBUT Dennis Potter’s rock ’n’ roll musical fantasy

‘Introducing Ewan McGregor,’ it says in the opening titles of this 1993 Channel 4 musical drama series written by the late Dennis Potter. The boy McGregor (right, with Louise Germaine), then a promising young Scottish actor not yet out of drama college, hasn’t done too badly for himself. He plays Mick Hopper who, on the eve of the Suez Crisis, is completing his national service working for military intelligence in a Whitehall office. He whiles away the time creating elaborate fantasies featuring his colleagues and rock ’n’ roll tunes. Also starring Douglas Henshall and Roy Hudd, this was the last series by Potter that was broadcast during his lifetime. BritBox, from Thursday