This wry play suggests that the 18th Century equivalent of the Secret Service was perhaps not the most cogent or rational. Especially when the Government’s man on the inside claims to have met Napoleon and gone to the moon...
A Home Office operative encroaches on civil liberties to gather intelligence which may help national security. A latter day MI5 thriller? No, a story of how Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wordsworth and friends came to be feared by the establishment.
Cast:
Mr Walsh.........Bill Nighy
Coleridge.........Martin Clunes
Mr King.........Graeme Garden
Mr Ford.........John Woodvine
Mr Mogg/Waiter.........Matthew Thomas
Directed by Sara Davies
First broadcast on Radio 4 in 2001.
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