Yes Minister
Good moaning: the subversive sitcoms of the 1980s revisited
From the sophisticated satire of Yes Minister to the irreverent farce of ’Allo ’Allo!, British comedy began to show a new inventive range
Pride and prejudice
Jonathan Lynn, co-author of Yes Minister, has excavated the history of France during the two world wars and discovered dramatic…
The theatre of politics
On 1 October 1950 the BBC broadcast a seemingly innocuous little play by Val Gielgud. A light-hearted and critically unremarkable…
