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| Blade on the Feather | |
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| Written by | Dennis Potter |
| Directed by | Richard Loncraine |
| Starring | Tom Conti Donald Pleasence Denholm Elliott Kika Markham Phoebe Nicholls |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Production | |
| Producers | Kenith Trodd Tony Wharmby |
| Running time | 82 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV |
| Release | 19 October 1980 |
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Blade on the Feather is a television drama by Dennis Potter, broadcast by ITV on 19 October 1980 as the first in a loosely connected trilogy of plays exploring language and betrayal. A pastiche of the John Le Carré spy thriller and transmitted eleven months after Anthony Blunt was exposed as the 'fourth man', the drama combines two of Potter's major themes: the visitation motif and political disillusionment. The play's title is taken from "The Eton Boating Song".