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A Very British Coup is a 1982 novel by British Labour politician Chris Mullin. The novel has twice been adapted for television; as A Very British Coup in 1988 and as Secret State in 2012. [1] [2]
- Chris Mullin
- 1982
A Very British Coup is a 1988 British political serial adapted from Chris Mullin's 1982 novel A Very British Coup in 1988 by screenwriter Alan Plater and director Mick Jackson. Starring Ray McAnally , the series was first screened on Channel 4 and won Bafta and Emmy awards, and was screened in more than 30 countries.
A Very British Coup: With Ray McAnally, Marjorie Yates, Geoffrey Beevers, Hugh Martin. Disaster befalls the UK under a seemingly corrupt Conservative government. The Labour Party is elected - but committed to radical change, under a firmly left-wing leader.
Sep 24, 2015 · It is 35 years since Chris Mullin, not yet a Labour MP, decided he'd better knuckle down to a political thriller he planned to write. With Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street, Jim Callaghan was ...
"A Very British Coup" is a very British 3x50 minute TV dramady laced with typically British wry wit which tells of the election to Prime Minister of a Labor Party candidate who is determined to turn the conservative iron fisted grip on the UK into government by the people.
Apr 30, 2021 · A still from A Very British Coup (1988) Although Anthony Head played PM Michael Stevens as a thoroughly good egg in his dealings with besotted aide Sebastian Love (David Walliams) in Little Britain (2003-06), the Machiavellian nature of politics has increasingly been exposed in TV drama series since the Thatcher era.
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Oct 17, 2009 · The three-part Channel 4 dramatisation 2 of Chris Mullin’s 1982 novel of the same name, A Very British Coup is about the election of a genuinely socialist government, headed by former steel worker Harry Perkins (Ray McAnally).
