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Categories: Drama: Political

  1. The Prospect

    Political drama

    BBC Radio 4

  2. Trouble and Shame

    Comedy drama by David Ireland

    BBC Radio Foyle

  3. Borgen

    Internationally acclaimed Danish political drama from the producers of The Killing

    BBC Four

  4. Political Animals

    A pet's eye view of the trials and tribulations of high office. Written by Tony Bagley.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

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  5. The Code

    Australian political thriller series.

    BBC Four

  6. 1990

    Political thriller set in the nightmare, dystopian future of 1990.

    BBC

  7. The Amazing Mrs Pritchard

    Drama series about a supermarket manager who decides to stand for election

    BBC One

  8. Party Animals

    Drama series about young researchers and advisors in Westminster

    BBC Two

  9. The Alan Clark Diaries

    Dramatisation of the colourful memoirs of the late Conservative MP.

    BBC Four

  10. House of Cards

    The original, award-winning tale of treachery and treason at the top of British politics.

    BBC One

  11. The Company

    Three-part drama series based on the Robert Littell bestseller of CIA intrigue.

    BBC Two

  12. Anthony Trollope - The Pallisers

    The political intrigues of a Victorian aristocratic family

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  13. Rules of Asylum by James Follett

    A man who escapes from an asylum is apparently a threat to the state.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  14. David Park - The Truth Commissioner

    Political drama as a new Truth Commissioner is appointed in Northern Ireland.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  15. The Grass Is Singing by Doris Lessing

    Racial politics in 1940s Rhodesia. The Nobel Prize winning author's first novel.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  16. Michael Dobbs - House of Cards

    Evil Chief Whip Francis Urquhart start scheming his way into 10 Downing Street.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  17. Borgen: Outside the Castle

    Environmental thriller set in Denmark, a radio spin-off of the political TV drama

    BBC Radio 4

  18. Mikhail Bulgakov - The White Guard

    In the winter of 1918, the citizens of Kiev wait for the city to fall.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  19. Doris Lessing - The Grass Is Singing

    Racial politics in 1940s Rhodesia. Read by Janet Suzman.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  20. Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent

    Joseph Conrad's tale of espionage, anarchy and terrorism in late 19th-century London.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  21. Comhairleoirí

    Dave Duggan's 7-part audio, online satirical drama about political advisors (in Irish).

  22. The Life and Times of David Lloyd George

    A BBC Wales drama serial broadcast in 1981, starring Philip Madoc as David Lloyd George.

    BBC Two

  23. State of Play

    A newspaper investigates the complex mystery of the murder of an MP's young researcher.

    BBC One

  24. Cambridge Spies

    Drama tracing the tale of Britain's most infamous double agents.

    BBC Two

  25. Sunday Night Theatre

    A long-running series of plays.

    BBC

  26. Days of Hope

    Series of four films by Ken Loach.

    BBC

  27. The Price of Coal

    A series of plays by Barry Hines.

    BBC One

  28. The Politician's Husband

    A drama about the shifting power in a marriage when the personal and political collide.

    BBC Two

  29. The Final Cut

    Political thriller. Urquhart aims to secure a legacy and be Britain's longest-serving PM.

    BBC One

  30. To Play the King

    Francis Urquhart's survival at the top is threatened by the new king's populist agenda.

    BBC One

  31. 37 Days

    Three-part factual drama of the final weeks before the outbreak of World War I.

    BBC Two

  32. Christabel

    Dennis Potter’s dramatization of Christabel Bielenberg's extraordinary wartime memoirs.

    BBC

  33. Primary Colors

    Political satire. An idealistic aide manages the campaign of a presidential candidate.

    BBC Three

  34. Kandahar

    An Afghani reporter returns to Afghanistan to rescue her suicidal landmine victim sister.

    BBC Two

  35. The Falklands Play

    Dramatisation of how the Thatcher government went to war against Argentina.

    BBC Four

  36. Kelvin Segger - The Bribery Warehouse

    True 1835 story of George Cunnold's brave stand against political corruption.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  37. Corridors of Power

    Former Washington Ambassador Christopher Meyer compares The West Wing and Yes Minister.

    BBC Radio 4

  38. The Designated Mourner

    Against a scene of political unrest, three people find their relationships under pressure.

    BBC Two

  39. Advise and Consent

    Tense drama of Washington politics based on Allen Drury's bestselling novel.

    BBC Two

  40. Animal Farm

    An animated version of George Orwell's classic allegorical novel.

    BBC Two

  41. Thirteen Days

    Tense political thriller set during the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962.

    BBC One

  42. I Witness

    A human rights activist investigates a series of deaths in a small Mexican border town.

    BBC One

  43. Peter Tinniswood - On the Whole It's Been Jolly Good

    Maurice Denham is former MP Sir Plympton Makepeace reflecting on 60 glorious years.

    BBC Radio 4 Extra

  44. People I Know

    Political drama starring Al Pacino as a New York press agent reaching burn-out.

    BBC One

  45. Red Dust

    A lawyer returns to South Africa to work as prosecutor on a Truth Commission hearing.

    BBC One

  46. Good Night, and Good Luck

    Drama set in 1950s America. A TV reporter takes a stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy.

    BBC One

  47. All the King's Men

    Hard-hitting drama chronicling the rise and fall of a demagogic politician.

    BBC Two

  48. Margaret

    Drama charting Margaret Thatcher's astonishing fall from power.

    BBC Two

  49. Their Eyes Were Watching God

    Halle Berry plays a free-spirited woman, challenging her small-town in 1920s America.

    BBC One

  50. Mrs Mandela

    How Winnie Mandela went from innocent country girl to a fighter against apartheid.

    BBC Four

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