First Degree was a 9 part drama series made by BBC Wales

BBC Wales

BBC Cymru Wales is a division of the British Broadcasting Corporation for Wales. Based at Broadcasting House in the Llandaff area of Cardiff, it directly employs over 1200 people, and produces a broad range of television, radio and online services in both the Welsh and English languages.Outside...

which aired in 2002. The series followed the lives, trials and tribulations of students in the fictional Bay College, one of several hi-tech media schools owned and run by an enigmatic entrepreneur based in Sacramento, California

Sacramento, California

Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the county seat of Sacramento County. It is located at the confluence of the Sacramento River and the American River in the northern portion of California's expansive Central Valley. With a population of 466,488 at the 2010 census,...

 known only as The Founder. A Big Brother

Big Brother (1984)

Big Brother is a fictional character in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. He is the enigmatic dictator of Oceania, a totalitarian state taken to its utmost logical consequence – where the ruling Party wields total power for its own sake over the inhabitants.In the society that Orwell...

-style virtual eye roves to every corner of the campus 24 hours a day, tracking student movements, while lecturers control their destinies by hatching underhand plots.

Cast

• Adam Randall
  Adam Randall
  Adam Randall is an actor from the Rhondda Valley, South Wales. He trained at East 15 Acting School and has appeared in several productions, including Sgripts Cymru's controversial play Franco's Bastard and played Gethin in the BBC series First Degree...
  
   .... Gethin
• Adam Allfrey .... Steffan
• Jade Capstick
  Jade Capstick
  Jade Capstick is a British actress and has appeared in various television, film and theatre work. During her career she has primarily worked for the BBC, her first appearance was as one of 2 leads in the BBC series First Degree. She then went on to appear in several other BBC dramas.- External...
  
   .... Rachel
• Nicholas Aaron .... Sion
• Salima Saxton
  Salima Saxton
  Salima Saxton is a British actress and writer. She graduated from Girton College, Cambridge University in 2000. She appears as a regular character in Jennifer Saunders' BBC1 comedy series Jam and Jerusalem.- External links :...
  
   .... Rehema
• Victor Spinetti
  Victor Spinetti
  Victor Spinetti is a Welsh comic actor.-Early life:Spinetti was born in Cwm, Ebbw Vale, Wales of Welsh and Italian heritage from a grandfather who was said to have walked from Italy to Wales to work as a coal miner...
  
   .... Founder
• Caroline Hayes
  Caroline Hayes
  Caroline Hayes is an English actress currently working and living in London. She has appeared on stage and television in the UK and Canada, most notably in the BBC series The Sins, alongside Pete Postlethwaite and Geraldine James, and Servants, another BBC series featuring Joe Absolom...
  
   .... Johanna
• John Moraitis .... Principal Maurice
• Phil Reid .... Ioan
• Anita Reynolds .... Sarah
• Amanda Rawnsley .... Maddy
• Sarah Farooqui .... Taz
• Abhin Galeya
  Abhin Galeya
  Abhin Galeya is British actor who played Police Constable Arun Ghir in the ITV1 police drama The Bill.He has recently completed filming Cleanskin , playing one of the lead roles in the terrorist thriller starring Sean Bean, Charlotte Rampling, James Fox, Michelle Ryan and Tuppence...
  
   .... Jay
• Jonjo O'Neill
  Jonjo O'Neill
  Jonjo O'Neill is an Irish National Hunt racehorse trainer and former jockey. He is a native of Castletownroche, County Cork in Ireland. Based at the Jackdaws Castle training establishment in England, O'Neill is the private trainer to J. P. McManus, one of the largest owners of steeplechasers and...
  
  .... Cookie

External links

• BBC press release