About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 72. Chapters: Absolute Power (comedy), At Last the 1948 Show, A Modest Proposal, Brass Eye, Bremner, Bird and Fortune, Brian Gulliver's Travels, Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Have I Got News for You, His Master's Voice (radio series), I Guess That's Why They Call It The News, Listen Against, Mock the Week, Monkey Dust, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Newsjack, On the Hour, Satire boom, Spitting Image, The Daily Mash, The Daily Squib, The Day Today, The Last Leg with Adam Hills, The News at Bedtime, The News Huddlines, The News Quiz, The Now Show, The Poke, The Saturday Night Armistice, The Thick of It, The Way It Is (programme), Tilt (radio), Time Trumpet, Week Ending, Yes Minister. Excerpt: Yes Minister is a satirical British sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn that was first transmitted by BBC Television between 1980 and 1984, split over three seven-episode series. The sequel, Yes, Prime Minister, ran from 1986 to 1988. In total there were 38 episodes, of which all but one lasted half an hour. Several episodes were adapted for BBC Radio, and a stage play was produced in 2010, the latter leading to a new television series on UK TV Gold in 2013. Set principally in the private office of a British Cabinet minister in the (fictional) Department of Administrative Affairs in Whitehall, Yes Minister follows the ministerial career of The Rt Hon Jim Hacker MP, played by Paul Eddington. His various struggles to formulate and enact legislation or effect departmental changes are opposed by the British Civil Service, in particular his Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, played by Nigel Hawthorne. His Principal Private Secretary Bernard Woolley, played by Derek Fowlds, is usually caught between the two. The sequel, Yes, Prime Minister, continued with the same cast and followed the events of the premiership of Jim Hacker after his unexpected elevation to Number 10 upon the resignation of the previous PM. A huge critical and popular success, the series received a number of awards, including several BAFTAs and in 2004 was voted sixth in the Britain's Best Sitcom poll. It was the favourite television programme of the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher. The series commences in the wake of a general election in which the incumbents have been defeated by the opposition to which Jim Hacker MP belongs. His party affiliation is not stated, although his party emblem is clearly neither Conservative nor Labour. The Prime Minister offers Hacker the position of Minister of Administrative Affairs, which he accepts. Hacker goes to his department and meets his Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, and his Principal Private Secretary, B
