Balance Of Power

A newly elected independent MP has the crucial vote in a hung parliament.

A newly-elected independent MP has the crucial vote in a hung parliament. Can she maintain her principles?

Set after a General Election, on the Scottish Island of Benmahulish and in and around the Palace of Westminster.

But, of course, it could never happen.

Written by Alan Melville.

Morag McGregor - Jean Anderson

Duncan - Simon Lack

Vincent Mellors - Edward Hardwicke

Arnold Sellers - Robert Lang

Jessie - Sandra Clark

Andrew Lumley - Hector Ross

Miss F - Kate Coleridge

Playing Members of Parliament, Journalists and others:

Nigel Anthony, Christopher Bidmead, Michael Cochrane, Anthony Daniels, Madi Hedd, Gudrun Ure, Anne Jameson, Fraser Kerr, Clifford Norgate, Deborah Paige, Roger Snowdon, Peter Whitman and Peter Williams.

Producer: John Tydeman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1975.

A newly-elected independent MP has the crucial vote in a hung parliament. Can she maintain her principles? Stars Jean Anderson.

Set during and immediately after a General Election in this country a few years from now.

Starring Jean Anderson.

Alan Melville's disrespectful comedy.

Set on the Scottish Island of Benmahulish and in and around the Palace of Westminster.

Playing Members of Parliament, Journalists and other roles:

A new independent MP has the crucial vote in a hung parliament. Disrespectful comedy.

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