Comedy drama. Retired Lord Chancellor Bill Webster decides to sell his memoirs to a tabloid newspaper in order to save his crumbling Cornish house. The Prime Minister wants to stop him as he believes the government will fall if his book is published. One of Bill's old girlfriends, now the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries, is sent to try and stop him, but also on his trail is a tabloid journalist who senses a scoop.
Richard Wilson
as Bill Webster
Emily Mortimer
as Emma
Stephen Moyer
as Olly
Andy Hamilton
as Editor
Jeff Rawle
as Derek
Clive Russell
as Arthur
James Fleet
as Prime Minister
Prunella Scales
as Shirley
Martin Clunes
as Minister of Defence
Mark Benton
as Antler Man
Rob Brydon
as Cornish Policeman
Peter Sullivan
as Dr. Glanville
