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It is great news that the two writers of the BBC political sitcoms ‘Yes Minister’ and ‘Yes Prime Minister’ are to reunite and pen a play to be performed at the Chichester Festival in May.
Writers Sir Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn say that the play, ‘Yes Prime Minister’, will follow a tempestuous 48 hours in politics. They certainly have much background material to draw upon, that is for sure.
Actors David Haig and Henry Goodman will play the parts of Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey Appleby, and seem to me to be superbly cast in characters originally made memorable by the late Sir Nigel Hawthorne and Paul Eddington.
The television and radio series ran between 1980 and 1988 and won a number of awards. It was a favourite programme in my household, and I still watch the hilarious programmes which, twenty-odd years later, still echo the political problems of today.
With a General Election looming, the following quote is as relevant now as it was all those years ago:
“Being an MP is a vast subsidised ego-trip. It’s a job that needs no qualifications, it has no compulsory hours of work, no performance standards, and provides a warm room, a telephone and subsidised meals to a bunch of self-important windbags and busybodies who suddenly find people taking them seriously because they've go the letters ‘MP’ after the their name.”
Let’s hope that the forthcoming play will be televised at some point!
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It is great news that the two writers of the BBC political sitcoms ‘Yes Minister’ and ‘Yes Prime Minister’ are to reunite and pen a play to be performed at the Chichester Festival in May.
Writers Sir Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn say that the play, ‘Yes Prime Minister’, will follow a tempestuous 48 hours in politics. They certainly have much background material to draw upon, that is for sure.
Actors David Haig and Henry Goodman will play the parts of Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey Appleby, and seem to me to be superbly cast in characters originally made memorable by the late Sir Nigel Hawthorne and Paul Eddington.
The television and radio series ran between 1980 and 1988 and won a number of awards. It was a favourite programme in my household, and I still watch the hilarious programmes which, twenty-odd years later, still echo the political problems of today.
With a General Election looming, the following quote is as relevant now as it was all those years ago:
“Being an MP is a vast subsidised ego-trip. It’s a job that needs no qualifications, it has no compulsory hours of work, no performance standards, and provides a warm room, a telephone and subsidised meals to a bunch of self-important windbags and busybodies who suddenly find people taking them seriously because they've go the letters ‘MP’ after the their name.”
Let’s hope that the forthcoming play will be televised at some point!
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