Episodes

1. Member

Campaigning Tory backbencher Dr Peter Balliol MP finds himself in a crisis of choice between ambition, conscience and a questionable private life.

2. Mandarin

When a high-flying civil servant discovers a dangerous conspiracy at the Home Office, she must choose between loyalty to her leader and leaking to the press.

3. Minister

Home Secretary Charles Truman has to weigh up the dictates of conscience against the survival of his career.

Overview

While three politicians try to reform Britain’s brutal prison system, the tabloid press publish exposés of their scandalous private lives, leaving their careers in peril.

Details

Cast

Joanne Pearce

Martin Shaw

Roy Dotrice

Nicholas Jones

Nicholas Woodeson

Fiona Shaw

Julian Fellowes

Michael Winner