An inquiry into the Foreign Office
2: A Little Patch of England
Embassies have always been the shopfronts of diplomacy but behind the traditional rituals, what actually goes on in them? In an age of jet-setting ministers, modem communications and Government cuts, have they outlived their usefulness?
Simon Jenkins explores these questions with diplomats manning British embassies across the world.
Producer ANNE SLOMAN
(Repeated: Mon 7.20 pm)