Een gewiekste man die als journalist voor de BBC werkt, is voornamelijk erg goed in zelfpromotie. Hij werkt aan een boek over de crisis rond het Suezkanaal van 1956 en hoopt hiermee op een weergaloze carrière. Hij achtervolgt een onderzoekster om zo meer details aan de weet te komen over de crisis. Gaandeweg verliest hij echter de intentie van zijn onderzoek en raakt hij smoorverliefd op de onderzoekster.
Nee, helaas is The Ploughman's Lunch nog niet beschikbaar op Netflix in Nederland.
| Directing | Richard Eyre | Director |
| Art | Roy Cannon | Property Master |
| Sound | David Stephenson | Sound Mixer |
| Art | Trisha Edwards | Property Buyer |
| Directing | Simon Relph | Assistant Director |
| Production | Redmond Morris | Production Manager |
| Art | John Hedges | Construction Manager |
| Costume & Make-Up | Rita Wakely | Wardrobe Master |
| Production | Alan John | Accountant |
| Production | Susie Figgis | Casting Director |
| Costume & Make-Up | Luciana Arrighi | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Joan Carpenter | Hairdresser |
| Camera | David Bryant | Focus Puller |
| Production | Deborah Barnard | Assistant Accountant |
| Art | Michael Pickwoad | Art Direction |
| Costume & Make-Up | Elaine Carew | Makeup Artist |
| Directing | Christopher Figg | Second Assistant Director |
| Production | Rachel Neale | Production Assistant |
| Editing | Michael Parkinson | Assistant Editor |
| Editing | Simon Harris | Assistant Editor |
| Production | Jasper Fforde | Production Runner |
| Camera | Ted Whitby | Grip |
| Camera | John Brown | Still Photographer |
| Camera | Jeremy Hiles | Clapper Loader |
| Sound | Des Edwards | Sound Engineer |
| Directing | Pat Rambaut | Continuity |
| Sound | Keith Pamplin | Boom Operator |
| Production | Leo Davis | Casting Assistant |
| Camera | Sue Gibson | Clapper Loader |
| Lighting | Steve Mcleod | Electrician |
| Lighting | Bill Thornhill | Electrician |
| Lighting | Tom Brown | Gaffer |
| Lighting | Billy Merrell | Electrician |
| Directing | Linda Bruce | Second Assistant Director |
| Art | Nicholas Jenkins | Title Designer |
| Production | Derek Robbins | Publicist |
| Sound | Dominic Muldowney | Original Music Composer |
| Writing | Ian McEwan | Writer |
| Camera | Clive Tickner | Director of Photography |
| Editing | David Martin | Editor |
| Production | Simon Relph | Producer |
| Production | Ann Scott | Producer |
