The Complete Yes Minister

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In the Spring of 1983 the BBC TV series Yes Minister achieved a unique hat trick: it became the first programme ever to win the British Academy award for the Best Comedy Series for three years running- In those three years the series had progressed from an innovation to an institution, as more and more people came to realise that behind all the laughter there was a great deal of accurate observation and pertinent revelation about the way the British are governed.
As the series grew in popularity, how-ever, viewers increasingly found that a television tour of British democratic góvernment in the Eighties, however hilarious, was not enough. They wanted this exposé of Westminster and Whitehall in a more permanent and portable form. By reinterpreting the stories as Jim Hacker's political diaries (augmented by Sir Humphrey Appleby's papers and a good helping of new material) the authors ha ve produced not just a printed version of the series but books which stand up as works of sharp... Tovább

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In the Spring of 1983 the BBC TV series Yes Minister achieved a unique hat trick: it became the first programme ever to win the British Academy award for the Best Comedy Series for three years running- In those three years the series had progressed from an innovation to an institution, as more and more people came to realise that behind all the laughter there was a great deal of accurate observation and pertinent revelation about the way the British are governed.
As the series grew in popularity, how-ever, viewers increasingly found that a television tour of British democratic góvernment in the Eighties, however hilarious, was not enough. They wanted this exposé of Westminster and Whitehall in a more permanent and portable form. By reinterpreting the stories as Jim Hacker's political diaries (augmented by Sir Humphrey Appleby's papers and a good helping of new material) the authors ha ve produced not just a printed version of the series but books which stand up as works of sharp political comedy in their own right. Now for the first time the three best-selling volumes, covering Jim Hacker's time as Minister for Administrative Affairs, previously available only as separate paperbacks, are issued as a single volume in hardback*
*We have had diaries from other Cabinet Ministers, but none I think which have been quite so illuminating It is a fasci-nating diary It is shorter than Barbara Castle's and although it is rather more accurate than Dick Crossman's, it is dis-tinctly funnier* - Lord Allén of Abbeydale (formerly Permanent Secretary at The Home Office) in The Times
'Very funny indeed' -The Birmingham Post
'It has an entertainment and educational value which is unique. It is uproariously funny and passes the acid test of becoming more amusing at every subsequent reading I will go so far as to claim that in the characters of Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey Appleby, Messrs Lynn and Jay have created something as immortal as P.G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster and Jeeves' - Brian Walden in The Standard Vissza