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The Government Inspector: Directed by Peter Kosminsky. With Mark Rylance, Jonathan Cake, Emma Fielding, Daniel Ryan. Peter Kosminsky's powerful factual drama about the Iraq dossier row and the subsequent death of Dr David Kelly, one of the top government experts on Weapons of Mass Destruction.
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- Biography, Drama
- Peter Kosminsky
- 2005-03-17
The Government Inspector is a 2005 television drama based on the life of David Kelly (played by Mark Rylance) and the lead-up to the Iraq War in the United Kingdom. [1]
How United Nations weapons inspector Dr David Kelly was caught up in the crossfire between the Government and the BBC over the intelligence justification for the war in Iraq, and endured a media storm that contributed to his suicide.
- Peter Kosminsky
- Jonathan Curling
- David Higgs
- Peter Kosminsky
Nov 16, 2022 · The Government Inspector, Nikolai Gogol’s famous satire, relates the comedic results when a provincial Russian council mistakes a broke traveller (Blossom Durr) for a government inspector, lavishing expense on him, and making fools of themselves in the process.
Nov 15, 2014 · In 1958 Tony Hancock was riding high as the star of Hancock’s Half Hour, which was running on both BBC television and radio. On the evening on the 9th of February 1958 he gave a rare straight acting performance in the BBC World Theatre production of Gogol’s The Government Inspector.
May 9, 2024 · Review of a new production starring Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Dan Skinner and Martha Howe-Douglas. You can see why a ludicrous satire set in a broken regime of privileged, corrupt idiots might be considered topical… but there’s barely been a time since Nikolai Gogol penned The Government Inspector in 1836 that it hasn’t.
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Mar 17, 2005 · The drama depicts Dr Kelly’s time as a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq in the 1990s and through the frenetic weeks and months in which the Blair government attempted to persuade a doubting nation of its case for war.
