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Spin comedy makes screen switch

BBC Radio 4 comedy Absolute Power, which stars Stephen Fry and John Bird as machiavellian spin doctors, is making the switch to BBC2.

Jason Deans, The Guardian, 11th April 2003

Mark Tavener, having killed off his booze-sodden BBC crime correspondent George Cragge, now concentrates on Charles Prentiss and Martin McCabe, minor characters in his comedy-thriller cycle In The Red. They have axed the Beeb's management so successfully that they now find themselves jobless and setting up as spin doctors. Absolute Power (11.30am, Radio 4) gives Stephen Fry and John Bird one or two nice one-liners - but nowhere near enough to sustain 30 minutes.

Harold Jackson, The Guardian, 5th January 2000