": You are a dyed-in-the-wool fascist, reactionary, squalid little 'know your place, don't rise above yourself, don't get out of your hole' complacent little turd! : I— : I haven't finished yet! You are morally, spiritually and physically a festering, fly-blown heap of accumulated filth! : What do you want for your tea?"

"[to Albert]: Ain’t it pathetic, your faith in the healing powers of a cup of tea! The Englishman’s panacea! Mother just died? Oh what a shame, have a cup of tea. Just been run over? Never mind, have a cup of tea. I have been offered tea for disasters, funerals, operations, floods, wars, Dunkirk, the Blitz, coronations, piles, hysteria, hunger marches and insomnia. Nice cup of tea in one hand and thumbs up to the camera in the other... Britain can take it! Well they can have it."

": When I’ve got my decent clobber on I’m completely classless. Providing I don’t open my mouth I could pass for anybody."

"[to Albert]: That wasn’t a lobster that poisoned you, you swallowed your own venom."

": [looking at old newspapers] 'Ere, I remember this — 'Mussolini invades Albania. King Zog flees.' : That's nothing mate, we got king-size fleas here!"

": Wedgewood blue on the ceiling... Etruscan red for the woodwork... : Bleedin' awful — it'll look like a Peruvian brothel!"

": There's no need in this day and age for you to 'ang on to other peoples' rags. There's people that need it more than you do, people who really need it. Send it to the Oxford Famine Relief. : Oxford? Bah. There ain't no famine up there. I passed through Oxford; it looked alright to me. : No, it's the 'War on Want' mob. They send it out to Africa and places like that. : They don't wear riding breeches out there. Never seen a blackie in riding breeches: make their legs sweat... Better off than we are. I wish I was a blackie sometimes. All that sun, bananas growin' on trees, coconuts — marvellous life."

"DI Robbie Ross (John Michie)"

"DC/DS/DI/DCI Mike Jardine (James MacPherson)"

"WPC/DC/DS/DI Jackie Reid (Blythe Duff)"

"Dr. Stephen Andrews (Robert Robertson)"

"Superintendent Robert Murray (Tom Watson)"

"DC Stuart Fraser (Colin McCredie)"

"Superintendent Jack McVitie (Iain Anders)"

"DCI Matt Burke (Alex Norton)"

"DS Peter Livingstone (Neil Duncan)"

"DS Kenny Forfar (Stuart Hepburn)"

"DCI Jim Taggart (Mark McManus)"

"- Officer J.P. Hooper (Seasons 4-10)"

"- Officer/Sgt. Marlon Pryce (Seasons 10-12)"

"- Commissioner Selwyn Patterson"

"- Catherine Bordey"

"- Officer Dwayne Meyers (Seasons 1-7, 11, 13- )"

"- Officer/Det. Sgt. Florence Cassell (Seasons 4-11)"

"- Det. Sgt. Camille Bordey (Seasons 1-4)"

"- Sgt./Det. Sgt. Naomi Thomas (Seasons 11- )"

"- Richard Poole (Seasons 1-3)"

"- Humphrey Goodman (Seasons 3-6)"

"- Jack Mooney (Seasons 6-9)"

"- Neville Parker (Seasons 9-13)"

"- Mervin Wilson (Seasons 14- )"

"Gary Carr - Officer/Sgt. Fidel Best (Seasons 1-3)"

"Kenneth Branagh as Narrator. (UK version)"

"Edward Gero as Narrator. (US version)"

"Stockard Channing as Narrator. (US version)"

"Michael Caine as Narrator. (UK version)"

"Over 600,000 people were conscripted to serve in the Exclusion Zone. Despite widespread accounts of sickness and death as a result of radiation, the Soviet government kept no official records of their fate."

"It has been widely reported that the three divers who drained the bubbler tanks died as a result of their heroic actions. In fact, all three survived after hospitalization. Two are still alive today."

"The contaminated region of Ukraine and Belarus, known as the Exclusion Zone, ultimately encompassed 2,600 square kilometers. Approximately 300,000 people were displaced from their homes. They were told this was temporary. It is still forbidden to return."

"Of the people who watched from the railway bridge, it has been reported that none survived. It is now known as "The Bridge of Death"."

"Following the death of her husband and daughter, Lyudmilla Ignatenko suffered multiple strokes. Doctors told her she would never be able to bear a child. They were wrong. She lives with her son in Kiev."

"400 miners worked around the clock for one month to prevent a total nuclear meltdown. It is estimated that at least 100 of them died before the age of 40."

"Mikhail Gorbachev presided over the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991. In 2006, he wrote, "The nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl... was perhaps the true cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union.""

"Boris Shcherbina died on August 22, 1990, four years and four months after he was sent to Chernobyl."

"Legasov was aided by dozens of scientists who worked tirelessly alongside him at Chernobyl. Some spoke out against the official account of events and were subject to denunciation, arrest and imprisonment. The character of Ulana Khomyuk was created to represent them all and to honor their dedication and service to truth and humanity."

"For their roles in the Chernobyl disaster, Viktor Bryukhanov, Anatoly Dyatlov and Nikolai Fomin were sentenced to ten years hard labor. After his release, Nikolai Fomin returned to work...at a nuclear power plant in Kalinin, Russia. Anatoly Dyatlov died from radiation-related illness in 1995. He was 64."

"Valery Legasov took his own life at the age of 51 on April 26, 1988, exactly two years after the explosion at Chernobyl. The audio tapes of Legasov's memoirs were circulated among the Soviet scientific community. His suicide made it impossible for them to be ignored. In the aftermath of his death, Soviet officials finally acknowledged the design flaws of the RBMK nuclear reactors. Those reactors were immediately retrofitted to prevent an accident like Chernobyl from happening again."

"Valery Khodemchuk's body was never recovered. He is permanently entombed under Reactor 4. The firefighters' clothing still remains in the basement of Pripyat Hospital. It is dangerously radioactive to this day."

"In 2017, work was completed on the New Safe Confinement at Chernobyl at a cost of nearly two billion dollars. It is designed to last 100 years."