The Last Post

Drama

Drama

Drama `The Last Post' follows a unit of Royal Military Police and their families in British-controlled Aden, Yemen in 1965. Newlyweds Honor and husband RMP Captain Joe Martin arrive into the mix and must adapt to their new environment and their new lives together. Amidst the community, relationships are tested as the women struggle against what is expected of them as army wives. At work, the army unit fight a growing insurgency and face constant threats from hand grenades and snipers. While at home, life continues as the emancipation and liberation of the sixties reaches the base and the BP beach club. Creator and writer Peter Moffat, whose father was an officer in the Royal Military Police, drew on childhood memories as inspiration for the six-part series.