Carnage: Swallowing the Past

Carnage: Swallowing the Past

2017•1h 5m•6.4/10

ComedyScience Fiction

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.4/10(45)

It's 2067, the UK is vegan, but older generations are suffering the guilt of their carnivorous past. Simon Amstell asks us to forgive them for the horrors of what they swallowed.

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Production

BBC, Splice Post

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Trailers & Videos

Cast

Simon Amstell

Simon Amstell

Narrator

Linda Bassett

Linda Bassett

Dr Yasmine Vondenburg

Martin Freeman

Martin Freeman

Jeff

Eileen Atkins

Eileen Atkins

Dorothy

Joanna Lumley

Joanna Lumley

Herself (voice)

Lindsay Duncan

Lindsay Duncan

Maude

Alex Lawther

Alex Lawther

Volunteer: Joey

Gemma Jones

Gemma Jones

Davina

John Macmillan

John Macmillan

Troye King Jones

Claire Keelan

Claire Keelan

Lindsay Graber

James Smith

James Smith

Graham Watkins

Samantha Spiro

Samantha Spiro

Edith Paper

Martin Sims

Martin Sims

Prof. Charles Grandage

Simon Chandler

Simon Chandler

Barnaby Jones

Michael Fenton Stevens

Michael Fenton Stevens

Peter Smithball

Jumayn Hunter

Jumayn Hunter

Robert

Simon Fisher-Becker

Simon Fisher-Becker

Kevin

Collette Cooper

Collette Cooper

Georgina

Andy Rush

Mike

Roy Sampson

Roy Sampson

Leon

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