When a number of distinguished members of government committees are found dead in suspicious circumstances, it falls to DCI Kate Duncan of Scotland Yard's Sensitive Cases Squad to discover what the connecting factor is.

Mark Lawson's deftly plotted murder-mystery gets to grips with a major concern at the heart of our cash-strapped NHS: the post code lottery and exactly who is to be considered deserving of the most expensive life saving drugs on the market.

Kate Duncan- Haydn Gwynne
Lorenzo- Lloyd Thomas
Briggs- Chris McHallem
Hermione Sharp - Abigail McKern
Dame Imelda Sharp- Honor Blackman
Sue Wells- Abigail McGibbon
Dr Tom Cready- Nick Dunning
Dee Mortimer- Stella McCusker
Jeremy Vine- Himself

Written by Mark Lawson.
The Power of Life and Death was directed in Belfast by Eoin O'Callaghan. Show less