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Absolute Power

Series 1

Episode 2

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 7Latest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for 6 months

Prentis McCabe - the machiavellian doctors of spin - attempt the impossible.

Can they relaunch The Sun newspaper as the beacon of the pro Euro movement while retaining the newspaper's traditional readership nurtured on a healthy diet of extreme xenophobia?

Mark Tavener's comedy about the two specialists in government and media relations.

Starring Stephen Fry and John Bird.

Charles Prentiss ...... Stephen Fry
Martin McCabe ...... John Bird

With:

Tony Gardner
Siobhan Hayes
Roger Blake
Neil McCaul

Producer: Paul Schlesinger

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2000. Show less

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