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Agent Lavender: The Flight of Harold Wilson
Setting
“The damn thing is still on the blink…”
With these words ringing in his ears, James Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, First Lord of the Treasury, Leader of the Labour Party and Soviet agent decides that the time is right for him to leave office. What follows is a grand chase around East Anglia, constitutional coups by civil servants, slash fiction involving Roy Jenkins and shady cabals of forces of the democratic left and the rather more undemocratic right.
POD
Hal Wilson, a bright young thing at Jesus College, Oxford, enjoys an extra glass of port whilst relaxing with his tutor. Things are said, matters are discussed and the prospect of carrying the torch of the Worker's Revolution to the upper echelons of the British Establishment are too wonderful to resist.
Episodes
Dramatis Personæ
- Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1964-1970 and 1974-Present. Better known as “Lavender” to the Kremlin.
- Sir John Hunt, Secretary to the Cabinet.
- Ted Short, Lord President of the Council. Tired.
- Jeremy Thorpe, Leader of the Liberal Party. Dog Tired.
- Margaret Thatcher, recently elected Leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party. Needs a bit of work doing.
- Enoch Powell, trying to translate The Decline and Fall into Persian. Keeps getting distracted.
- Roy Jenkins, Pillar of the Labour Party. Always Right.
- Tony Benn, Pillar of the Labour Party. Always Left.
- Peter Wright, rather overzealous spy-catcher.
- Norris and Ross McWhirter, Record Breakers, rather fond of Freedom.
- Chris Mullin, investigative journalist. Good friends with the member for Bristol South East.
- John Stonehouse, Czech Mate.
- Queen Elizabeth II, trying very hard to hold her tongue. Not very happy at the moment.
- Lord Mountbatten, keeping the peace.
Also Starring
- Timothy Dalton as Special Agent Paddy Ashdown.
- Not Steve Coogan as a Norwich-based Hospital Radio Disc Jockey.
- A Norfolk Potato Farmer
- A Norfolk Potato Farmer's Wife
- Police Officers
- Tulip and Lily
- Civil Servants
- Trade Unionists
- Boy Scouts
- The Liberal Party
- The Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office