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By FRANK BEHRENS
Picture if you will a Prime
Minister of England who really wants to benefit
the majority of the people and not only the "fat
cats" who have run the country all through its
past. Picture how his foes -- not only the
powerful but those of the middle class in the
pockets of the powerful -- would stop at nothing
to topple him, not even short of murder. Picture
also how a certain even more powerful nation would
aid and abet in his downfall since while all the
rest talk disarmament he actually begins to
disarm!
If you have trouble picturing all this, then you
must watch the Acorn Media release of the first
Masterpiece Theatre presentation that did not take
place in the British past or present but in the
very near future. It is called "A Very British
Coup" (AMP-8617) and stars Ray McAnally as Prime
Minister Harry Perkins who knows too well what it
is like to be poor and oppressed and he is pitted
against Sir Percy Browne (Alan MacNaughtan), who
is both the head of MI5 and an upper-class
militant determined not to enfranchise anyone
below him. He feels he owes it to his ancestors;
Perkins feels the same about his own.
Add to those two a list of the most frightening
behind-the-scenes characters who, although never
elected, actually run the government -- the press
barons, the BBC, the union leaders, even the local
constabulary -- and you can see how important, let
alone how pertinent, this story is to our present
situation. There is an audio interview with the
author that might be of some value.
Grab this one -- and teachers of Political
Science, take careful notice.
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