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- Review by:
- Alison Graham
“There goes a tiebreaker in the making: who was Nicola Murray?” says a wag. Poor Nicola (Rebecca Front), her every move dogged by a man dressed as a pork chop, finds herself the target of a torpedo of invective from Malcolm Tucker.
Even for Tucker, this is strong stuff: “You’ve all the charm of a rotting teddybear by a graveside... you headless frump” is one of the milder insults in a firestorm of abuse as he throws Nicola out of what used to be her office in front of her successor, that suave Dalek Dan Miller.
It’s a messy episode that tips into pandemonium when a leaked email sets off a chain reaction.
About this programme
5/7. The unravelling of the key-worker housing sell-off policy forces both Nicola Murray and Peter Mannion onto the defensive, and thus begins a race for the moral high ground. But the more they try to spin the story, the bigger the scandal becomes, in an episode of the political comedy directed by Chris Addison (Olly Reeder). Rebecca Front, Roger Allam and Peter Capaldi co-star.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Nicola Murray
- Rebecca Front
- Helen Hatley
- Rebecca Gethings
- Phil Smith
- Will Smith
- Peter Mannion
- Roger Allam
- Emma Messinger
- Olivia Poulet
- Stewart Pearson
- Vincent Franklin
- Fergus Williams
- Geoffrey Streatfeild
- Adam Kenyon
- Ben Willbond
- Terri Coverley
- Joanna Scanlan
- Mr Chop
- Michael Colgan
- Glenn Cullen
- James Smith
- Robyn Murdoch
- Polly Kemp
- Jack
- Joe Cole
- Rohinka
- Mandeep Dhillon
- Malcolm Tucker
- Peter Capaldi
- Dan Miller
- Tony Gardner
- Olly Reeder
- Chris Addison
- Sam
- Samantha Harrington
Crew
- Director
- Chris Addison
- Producer
- Adam Tandy
- Producer
- Armando Iannucci
- Writer
- Roger Drew
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