Tenko
Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of women, formerly comfortably well-off ex-pats living in Singapore, as they are captured by the Japanese during World War II.
- genus: Drama, War & Politics
- Studio: BBC One
- keyword: prison, world war ii, prisoner of war, singapore, jungle, soldier, period drama, historical, historical drama, 1940s, war, modern history
- cast: Stephanie Cole, Jean Anderson, Ann Bell, Emily Bolton, Claire Oberman, Elizabeth Chambers