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The Quality of Life

Yes Minister Series 2
Episode 5 of 8

Jim Hacker gets embroiled in the property business. Adapted from TV with Paul Eddington and Selina Scott. From November 1984.

Jim Hacker gets floored by the high rise world of property business.

Starring Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds.

Satirical sitcom centred around hapless MP Jim Hacker and a collection of civil service underlings headed by the Machiavellian Sir Humphrey Appleby and obsequious Bernard.

Written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn

It first ran on 大象传媒 TV between 1980 and 1984.

Jim Hacker 鈥�. Paul Eddington
Sir Humphrey Appleby 鈥�. Nigel Hawthorne
Bernard Woolley 鈥�. Derek Fowlds
Sir Desmond 鈥�. Richard
Selina Scott 鈥�. Herself
Sir Frank 鈥�. Jeffrey Wickham
Bill Pritchard 鈥�. Antony Carrick
Mrs Philips 鈥�. Zulema Dene

Other parts played by:

Helen Atkinson-Wood
Colin Starkey
Mark Straker
Helena Breck
Maggie McCarthy
Robin Summers

Adapted for radio by producer Pete Atkin.

First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in November 1984.

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