When this film was aired in March 2006 it caused national news headlines, and columnists demanded an independent inquiry into its revelations. The film dramatizes tapes of secret conversations between former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and two BBC journalists,recorded weeks after Wilson’s shock resignation in 1976. Broadcast for the first time, the tapes reveal that while he was Prime Minister,Wilson had learned that sections of the British intelligence and armed services were organizing a military coup to replace his Labour Government with a junta headed by the Queen’s cousin Lord Mountbatten. James Bolam gives a compelling performance as the embattled Prime Minister in the twilight of his career, trying to discreetly lead the journalists to the conspirators. Revealing new interview footage with senior politicians, military and intelligence officers shows just how close Wilson and the journalists came to exposing an attempt to undermine democracy that dwarfs Watergate.
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