Message For Posterity

Name: Message For Posterity
Director: David Jones
Released: 1994-10-29
Duration: 107 min
Cast: Patrick Godfrey, Annette Crosbie, John Neville, Eric Porter, Stephen Moore

S4 E1 October 29, 1994 1h 47m

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Overview

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.