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Jonathan Lynn
Jonathan Lynn

Jonathan Lynn

  • 81 years old
  • English
  • Actor and writer

Press clippings Page 4

Yes, Minister: Sir Humphrey has all the solutions

As the classic political sitcom takes to the West End stage, Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn imagine what Sir Humphrey would make of Whitehall today.

Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, The Telegraph, 30th September 2010

Yes, Prime Minister is back as a West End show

Whitehall's most adversarial couple, the Rt Honourable Jim Hacker MP and Sir Humphrey, his Permanent Secretary, immortalised by Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne, are back - this time on the stage, thanks to their original creators Jonathan Lynn and Sir Antony Jay.

Petronella Wyatt, Daily Mail, 17th September 2010

Yes, Prime Minister, at the Chichester Festival Theatre

Twenty-three years after they wrote the final episode of Yes, Prime Minister, the show's creators Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn have put their characters into a stage play. Is that what Sir Humphrey Appleby might term "a brave decision"?

Dominic Maxwell, The Times, 21st May 2010

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