Yes Minister

TV matters: Yes, Minister

Anyone writing comedy about politics would do well to study a new book by one of the writers of the classic Whitehall satire.

Yes, Prime Minister to return to the Gielgud

Yes, Prime Minister is to transfer from the Apollo Theatre to the Gielgud Theatre for a final eight-week run this autumn.

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.

Video: Yes Prime Minister becomes West End hit

The popular 1980's political satire has been revived for the stage. It stars David Haig as the Prime Minister and Henry Goodman as his right hand man.

Your next box set: Yes Minister

Before The Thick of It, there was another political sitcom filled with all the same rivalries, schemings and conspiracies - if not the swearing. And 30 years on Yes Minister still seems fresh.

Another view on Yes, Prime Minister

In these rougher times the affable blundering of Jim Hacker has given way to the desperate scheming of Hacker mark II.

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"?

'Yes, Prime Minister' back on stage after 23 year gap

Onstage at Chichester Festival Theatre, there is a remarkable case of art impeccably imitating life.

It is the first stage version of Yes, Prime Minister, written by the creators of the hit 1980s TV sitcom.

Yes, Prime Minister: greatest comeback since Lib-Dems

Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey have returned. Why? One of the writers who created them explains.

nspired election day programming: a Yes, Prime Minister marathon. In a climate in which British political satire is defined by The Thick Of It, this may now appear somewhat polite. However, once you attune (or re-attune) yourself to a Whitehall sitcom in which nobody swears, the wry, waspish humour bites with more lasting venom than Malcolm Tucker's rants, and its insights into the workaday reality of politics remain exquisitely astute, some even more so in retrospect: the episode in which they agonise over intervening in a war on a fictional island predicts with unnerving accuracy the mid-90s bungling over Bosnia.