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Spin doctors Prentiss and McCabe attempt to relaunch the Sun newspaper.

Spin doctors Prentiss and McCabe attempt to relaunch the Sun newspaper. Stars Stephen Fry and John Bird. From January 2000.

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.

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