The men of The Last Post endured 10 days of military-style boot camp prior to the rest of the cast arriving on location for filming.
Aden shark attack data from 1900 until 2015 shows one non-fatal shark attack in 1906 and one fatal shark attack in 1955.
Jessica Raine has said she filmed several takes of the scorpion capture. Her character, Alison Laithwaite, was supposed to remain calm, but Raine kept breaking out of character because she found the live scorpion so "horrendous."
The BP oil corporation was first founded in 1909 as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Ltd. In 1965, the company was known as British Petroleum Company Limited.
First broadcast 9-10pm Sunday, 8th October 2017 on BBC One in the UK. The number of viewers fell to 4,840,000 dropping The Last Post down to 15th in the rankings for the channel for the period 2nd October 2017 - 8th October 2017.