In a televised version of the popular podcast, Adam Fleming, Chris Mason, and guests chat about the stories behind the news.
I detta drama skildras politiskt maktspel och romantik under Elizabeth II:s tid på tronen, samt de händelser som formade den andra halvan av 1900-talet.
Based on the week’s news and fronted by guest hosts, this extended version of the satirical news quiz features more of the stuff that wouldn't fit into the regular programme.
Stilbildande brittisk politisk satir om det frustrerande och ineffektiva arbetet på olika politiska myndigheter i England. Giftigt maktspel, samvetslöst förräderi och skenande egoism blandas med gråa kontorslandskap, trög byråkrati och desillusionerade tjänstemän. Följdes av filmen “In the Loop” och inspirerade den amerikanska tv-serien “Veep”.
The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.
Kunde en hel generations grymma öde ha undvikits? Och hur uppkom en konflikt med sådana fruktansvärda konsekvenser egentligen? Med hjälp av mer än 500 timmars unikt arkivmaterial, samt brevväxling och dagböcker från första världskrigets offer får vi möta människorna som plötsligt var i strid. Ett nära porträtt av livet i skyttegravarna i Frankrike, Ryssland, Serbien, Turkiet och Palestina, samt hur vardagen såg ut för de medborgare som försökte hantera livet bortom fronten.
This topical debate series based on Any Questions? typically features politicians from at least the three major political parties as well as other public figures who answer pre-selected questions put to them by a carefully selected audience.
Spitting Image is an award winning British satirical puppet show, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law and Martin Lambie-Nairn. The series was produced by Spitting Image Productions for Central Independent Television over 18 series which aired on the ITV from 1984 to 1996. The series was nominated and won numerous awards during its run including 10 BAFTA Awards, including one for editing in 1989, and even won two Emmy Awards in 1985 and 1986 in the Popular Arts Category.
The series featured puppet caricatures of celebrities famous during the 1980s and 1990s, including British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and fellow Tory politicians, American president Ronald Reagan, and the British Royal Family. The Series was the first to caricature the Queen mother.
Det är i slutet av 1960-talet, homosexualitet har precis avkriminaliserats i Storbritannien och Jeremy Thorpe, partiledare för The Liberal Party, har en hemlighet som han desperat försöker dölja. Så länge hans före detta älskare Norman Scott lever, finns det risk för att Thorpes karriär kan rämna. Till slut kan Thorpe bara se en utväg: att tysta Scott för gott.
Frustrated at a new moderate Conservative government and deprived of a promotion to a senior position, chief whip Francis Urquhart prepares a meticulous plot to bring down the Prime Minister then to take his place.
Serien handlar om den brittiske parlamentsledamoten Jim Hacker som, i första avsnittet, blev utsedd till minister för (det fiktiva) administrationsdepartementet. Man får sedan följa ministerns kamp mot tjänstemännen på departementet om hur de olika ärendena skall behandlas.
A 1994 war television miniseries which portrays Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin as they maneuver their countries through several of the major events of World War II - such events include the Blitz, Operation Barbarossa, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the North African Campaign, the Allied invasion of Italy, and concluding with the Tehran Conference.
A Very British Coup is a British political thriller series based on the novel by Chris Mullin. It stars Ray McAnally as the newly elected left-wing prime minister Harry Perkins, who soon finds himself up to his neck in conspiracy.
GBH was a seven-part British television drama written by Alan Bleasdale shown in the summer of 1991 on Channel 4. The protagonists were Michael Murray, the Militant tendency-supporting Labour leader of a city council in the North of England and Jim Nelson, the headmaster of a school for disturbed children.
The series was controversial partly because Murray appeared to be based on Derek Hatton, former Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council — in an interview in the G.B.H. DVD Bleasdale recounts an accidental meeting with Hatton before the series, who indicates that he has caught wind of Bleasdale's intentions but does not mind as long as the actor playing him is "handsome".
In normal parlance, the initials "GBH" refer to the criminal charge of grievous bodily harm - however, the actual intent of the letters is that it is supposed to stand for Great British Holiday.
The lives of the Duke of Marlborough and his wife Sarah, from their meeting in 1673 to the duke's death in 1722.
A drama about the shifting power in a marriage when the personal and political collide.
Politician Peter Laurence's private life is falling apart. Shamelessly untroubled by guilt or remorse, he seeks to further his own agenda whilst others plot to bring him down. Can he out-run his own secrets to win the ultimate prize?
The Politician's Wife is a British television political drama written by Paula Milne, broadcast on Channel 4 in 1995 and starring Trevor Eve and Juliet Stevenson.
The story centres around high-flying politician Duncan Matlock, Families Minister for the UK Government, who becomes embroiled in tabloid scandal as it is discovered that he has been having an affair with a former escort turned parliamentary researcher. Duncan's wife Flora becomes the focus of media attention as her reactions to the revelations are played out. Initially she plays out the part of the loyal wife, but as an aide of her husband feeds her details about the affair and various other political scandals that could be made to happen. She begins to sabotage her husband's integrity and reputation through a campaign of leaks and misinformation to the press and British Conservative Party stalwarts. After a series of increasingly sensational and damaging stories in the press, her husband is forced to resign in humiliation. The last episode closes with the results of the by-election being announced on TV. Flora Matlock wins with the support of her party whilst her husband is exiled to a minor post in Belgium.
Party Animals presents Westminster from the ground up – the young researchers and advisors shouldering huge responsibility in a frantic, high-stakes world. It's no wonder their personal lives are so messy. Sons of an ex-Labour MP, Scott and Danny Foster have politics in their blood.
Francis Urquhart's survival at the top is threatened by the new king's populist agenda.