Stephen Colbert Forced To Cancel 'The Late Show' This Week After Undergoing Surgery For Ruptured Appendix BFI Screenonline: Poliakoff, Stephen (1952–) Biography". Archived from the original on 8 March 2017. In November/December 2016, his seven-part series Close to the Enemy [36] was transmitted on BBC Two. [37] Close to the Enemy [38] is set in a bombed-out London in the aftermath of the Second World War. I have been to my share of weddings and funerals and often wondered who some of the people were. Only to be told by someone that they were my relatives. At an elaborately organised reunion, held in a grand London hotel, Raymond his wife Esther and their son Daniel find themselves irresistibly drawn into their ancestors' family tree. Meeting distant, and not so distant, relatives for the first time they begin to establish their positions within this eccentric and eclectic family and uncover family secrets they never knew about which have a profound effect on them. Stars Michael Gambon, Matthew Macfadyen, Lindsay Duncan, Claire Skinner, Toby Stephens and Timothy Spall.

Poliakoff was born in Holland Park, West London, to Ina (née Montagu) and Alexander Poliakoff. [3] [4] His father was a Russian-Jewish immigrant and his mother was a British Jew. His maternal grandfather had bought 16th-century mansion Great Fosters, and his maternal great-grandfather was Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling. [5] Like Shooting The Past, Perfect Strangers features the use of lengthy monologues filmed in long takes. This gives numerous opportunities for the distinguished cast, among which Michael Gambon, Matthew Macfadyen and Poliakoff veterans Timothy Spall and Lindsay Duncan stand out. The film is long but paced with cunning to keep the mysteries unresolved until the final moments. In this, Poliakoff is helped by his regular composer Adrian Johnston and editor Paul Tothill. Western Electrician. Vol.30. Electrician Publishing Company. 1902. p.382 . Retrieved 26 January 2017. Kelley Curran Blames Turner's Penchant for "Self-Sabotage" for Her Soup Scheme Fiasco in 'The Gilded Age' Season 2 Episode 5 Dancing on the edge, IMDB". IMDB. 2014. Archived from the original on 15 March 2016 . Retrieved 31 December 2015.Astonish Me – WWF-UK's 50th Anniversary Film". www.stephenpoliakoff.com. 30 November 2016 . Retrieved 7 April 2019. City Sugar Bush Theatre, October 1975; Comedy Theatre, March 1976; Phoenix Theatre (New York), January 1978

I am approaching 40, and have a family of my own. I also recall memories from my childhood; family celebrations; weddings; christenings. Poliakoff uses the family reunion as a conceit. Stephen (Anton Lesser) the designer of the family tree actually tells Daniel that part of the family tree is false. Stephen's mother was Jewish and used a false family tree to evade the Nazis. Anything by Stephen Poliakoff, the playwright who gave us modern television milestones such as Caught on a Train and Shooting the Past, is keenly anticipated by anyone who likes to immerse themselves in dramas of sinuous beauty. So rub your hands with glee at the arrival of this elegant three-part story centred on the peculiar and mysterious Symon family, who gather at a London hotel for a huge and startlingly well organised reunion.Though everyone is part of the same family, most are indeed "perfect strangers" to one another, linked by blood but in many cases very little else.BBC – Press Office – Stephen Poliakoff dramas for 2007". Archived from the original on 11 July 2007.