John Nettleton, the great “Sir Arnold” Dies

John Nettleton was a prolific character actor for more than half a century, but gained his greatest recognition on screen as the cold, calculating Sir Arnold Robinson in the TV sitcom Yes Minister. The biting political satire Yes Minister cast Sir Arnold to type as a scheming bureaucrat who manipulates Continue Reading

Yes Prime Minister– “Hackers and Humphreys All"

Yes Prime Minister made its television debut on the same day that Michael Heseltine quit the cabinet. In a celebration of thirty years of one of Britain’s best loved sitcoms, BBC Radio 4 Extra explores the relationship between the real world of Whitehall and this timeless satire. In new and Continue Reading