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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Yes, Minister
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(BBC 1980–5) The wittiest of TV comedy series, combining the ingredients of farce with wickedly observed satire on the British establishment's methods, manners and morals. The sparring partners are an unscrupulous senior civil servant, Sir Humphrey (played by Nigel Hawthorne) and his bumbling but sometimes wily minister, Jim Hacker (Paul Eddington). The scriptwriters, Antony Jay (b. 1930) and Jonathan Lynn (b 1943), somehow contrived the impossible and got the ineffective Hacker into 10 Downing Street, thus providing for an equally brilliant sequel, Yes, Prime Minister (1986–7).
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