The writer Peter Moffat has a bee in his bonnet. “I’m a bit sick of representations of British Army officers, particularly in period dramas, as unintelligent and usually moustached. That’s plainly untrue and I want to correct it.”Moffat knows whereof he speaks, because he grew up around British Army officers. His first memories, though, come from Aden, in what is now Yemen, and it is there that he has based The Last Post, his new six-part TV drama. Set in 1965, it follows a unit of military police officers, their “ranks” (soldiers) and “dependants” (wives and…

Source: The Times September 30, 2017 22:52 UTC