National Theatre Live: Best of Enemies

In 1968 America, as two men fight to become the next president, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and the unruly liberal Gore Vidal. During a new nightly television format, they debate the moral landscape of a shattered nation.

• James GrahamWriter
• Jeremy HerrinDirector

• Zachary QuintoGore Vidal
• David HarewoodWilliam F. Buckley, Jr.
• Emilio DoorgasinghWilliam Sheehan / Chet Huntley / Howard Austen
• Clare FosterPatricia Buckley
• Tom GodwinFrank Meyer / Andy Warhol / Bobby Kennedy / More...
• John HodgkinsonHoward K Smith / Mayor Daley
• Syrus LoweJames Baldwin / George / Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Kevin McMonagleElmer Lower / Walter Kronkite
• Sam OttoTariq Ali / Matt
• Deborah AlliAretha Franklin / Patty the Party Guest / Brooke Gladstone