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Ahead of Sherlock Holmes Day on May 22, Birmingham Rep has unveiled key casting for its upcoming world premiere of “Sherlock ...
Sir Humphrey, now Cabinet Secretary ... This produces the defining moment in the Yes, Minister canon, in The Key, Humphrey, driven insane by Hacker at last standing up to him, is forced to ...
he resolves to move her office back closer to his own. Sir Humphrey has other ideas, but on this occasion, the Prime Minister holds a rather effective trump card!
On the other hand, he is not totally naïve. He has been round the House a few times and - even before he meets the sitcom's second key character, top civil servant Sir Humphrey - he is no stranger to ...
The response of Sir Humphrey Appleby, Britain’s leading mandarin, has been leaked to our news desk. We reproduce it here in full. “Dear Prime Minister. It has come to the attention of the ...
Sir Humphrey Bourchier (or Bourgchier) is buried in St Edmund's chapel in Westminster Abbey. He was the great grandson of Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester. The Purbeck marble altar tomb once ...
Ken McReddie, Hawthorne's agent for 30 years, said: "He was a brilliant actor and a wonderful friend. The roles of Sir Humphrey Appleby on television in Yes, Minister and as King George III on the big ...
Sir Humphrey May, politician, was buried "on the north side of the Chapel of Kings" (ie. the north ambulatory) in Westminster Abbey on 11th June 1630. He seems never to have had any marker. His son ...
In addition to Sir Humphrey and Bernard, Dorothy Wainwright joins the staff as the prime minister's special political adviser. And as in the original, most episodes end with the words,"Yes, Prime ...