The high point in the career of the television and film director, Jim O'Brien, was the 14-part Granada series The Jewel in the Crown (1984), set in the final days of the British Raj in India. His next major work, this time for the BBC, was more controversial - The Monocled Mutineer (1986), the story of an impostor, Percy Toplis, who claimed to have taken part in a mutiny of soldiers at a British training camp in Fran…
SOURCE: The Stage at 11:38AM on May 14, 2012