Episode 1
Satirical comedy set in and around the world of British politics. Newly appointed Minister for Social Affairs, Hugh Abbot, faces a policy crisis.
Satirical comedy series set behind the very closed doors of government.
The newly appointed Minister for Social Affairs, Hugh Abbot, is on his way to a secondary school in Wiltshire to announce the setting up of a 'Snooper Squad' and, in his own words, "plant his flag firmly on Richard and Judy's sofa". Unfortunately, he's ordered by Number Ten's communications supremo, Malcolm Tucker, to kill the policy stone dead. Hugh and his advisors have just forty minutes to come up with an extremely popular policy that costs nothing.
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Thu 19 May 200522:30- Thu 19 May 200523:45
- Fri 20 May 200501:45
- Sat 21 May 200522:45
- Sun 22 May 200502:15
- Mon 27 Jun 200522:00
- Sat 2 Jul 200500:20
- Fri 30 Sep 200523:05
- Sat 1 Oct 200503:10
- Fri 16 Dec 200523:50
- Mon 2 Jan 200622:05BBC Two except East & Yorkshire
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