Message For Posterity

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Performance
Season 4
Episode Number :1
Rate : Not Rated
RunTime :120 mins
Air Date :1994-10-29
Story : A Parliamentary committee decides to commission a portrait as a memorial to an ageing Conservative, wartime ex-Prime Minister, Sir David Browning. Bizarrely, they choose anarchic, anti-establishment and equally ageing artist James Player, who appears to stand for the very opposite values and positions to his prospective sitter. During sittings the two men find many opportunities to score political and social points off each. Screened with an with an introduction by Brian Walden, a contemporary of writer Dennis Potter at Oxford and an old Oxford political sparring partner.
Cast
Patrick Godfrey1st Conservative MP
Annette Crosbie1st Labour MP
John NevilleSir David Browning