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The Downing Street Doppelganger

The Downing Street Doppelganger

  • Radio comedy drama
  • BBC Radio 4
  • 2022
  • 1 episode

Historical comedy about preventing the public from knowing the Prime Minister is ill. Stars John Thomson, Jonathan Keeble, Malcolm Raeburn, Emily Pithon, Verity-May Henry and more.

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Key details

Genre
Comedy Drama
Broadcast
2022
Channel
BBC Radio 4
Episodes
1
Stars
John Thomson, Jonathan Keeble, Malcolm Raeburn, Emily Pithon, Verity-May Henry, James Quinn and Hamilton Berstock
Writer
Jim Poyser
Producer
Gary Brown

It is 1922. The Prime Minister Henry Bonar-Baldwin is gravely ill with a deadly virus. The inner circle around him don't want the news to get out as it may precipitate a crisis. How can they give the impression that all is well and keep those pesky socialists at bay? Well someone has heard there is a music hall comedian who does an uncanny impersonation of Bonar-Baldwin...

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Broadcast details

First broadcast
Saturday 8th October 2022 at 3pm on BBC Radio 4
Episode length
1 hour

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