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Winchester College in fiction, the Glossary

Winchester College appears in fiction both as a school and as fictional Old Wykehamists, people who had been to the school.^[1]

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A. P. Herbert

Sir Alan Patrick Herbert CH (known as A. P. Herbert; 24 September 1890 – 11 November 1971), was an English humorist, novelist, playwright, law reformist, and, from 1935 to 1950, an independent Member of Parliament for Oxford University.

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Alan Hollinghurst

Alan James Hollinghurst (born 26 May 1954) is an English novelist, poet, short story writer and translator.

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Alcaic stanza

The Alcaic stanza is a Greek lyrical meter, an Aeolic verse form traditionally believed to have been invented by Alcaeus, a lyric poet from Mytilene on the island of Lesbos, about 600 BC.

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Angus Wilson

Sir Angus Frank Johnstone-Wilson, CBE (11 August 191331 May 1991) was an English novelist and short story writer.

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Anne Hathaway

Anne Jacqueline Hathaway (born November 12, 1982) is an American actress.

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Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope (24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era.

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Antony Jay

Sir Antony Rupert Jay, (20 April 1930 – 21 August 2016) was an English writer and broadcaster.

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Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford.

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Barchester Towers

Barchester Towers is a novel by English author Anthony Trollope published by Longmans in 1857.

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Barrister

A barrister is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions.

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Basil Fawlty

Basil Fawlty is the main character of the 1970s British sitcom Fawlty Towers, played by John Cleese.

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Ben Elton

Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May 1959) is a British comedian, actor, author, playwright, lyricist and director.

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Bill the Conqueror

Bill the Conqueror (subtitled His Invasion of England in the Springtime) is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 13 November 1924 by Methuen & Co., London, and in the United States on 20 February 1925 by George H. Doran, New York, the story having previously been serialised in The Saturday Evening Post from 24 May to 12 July 1924.

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Blackadder Goes Forth

Blackadder Goes Forth is the fourth series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder, written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, which aired from 28 September to 2 November 1989 on BBC1.

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Bleak House

Bleak House is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a 20-episode serial between 12 March 1852 and 12 September 1853.

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Brian Degas

Brian R. Degas (2 October 1935 – 3 April 2020) was an English producer and writer, merchandiser, and creative packager of ancillary rights.

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Brian Freemantle

Brian Harry Freemantle (born 10 June 1936) is an English thriller and non-fiction writer, known for his 1977 spy novel Charlie Muffin.

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Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945.

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Bridget D'Oyly Carte

Dame Bridget D'Oyly Carte DBE (25 March 1908 – 2 May 1985) was head of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1948 until 1982.

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Bruce Robinson

Bruce Robinson (born 2 May 1946) is an English actor, director, screenwriter and novelist.

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Cakes and Ale

Cakes and Ale, or, The Skeleton in the Cupboard (1930) is a novel by the British author W. Somerset Maugham.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic.

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Charles Langbridge Morgan

Charles Langbridge Morgan (22 January 1894 – 6 February 1958) was a British playwright and novelist of English and Welsh parentage.

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Chief Secretary for Administration

The Chief Secretary for Administration, commonly known as the Chief Secretary of Hong Kong, is the most senior principal official of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

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Civil service

The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil service personnel hired rather than elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leadership.

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Colditz (1972 TV series)

Colditz is a British television drama series co-produced by the BBC and Universal Studios and screened between 1972 and 1974.

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Comprehensive school

A comprehensive school is a secondary school for pupils aged 11–16 or 11–18, that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude, in contrast to a selective school system where admission is restricted on the basis of selection criteria, usually academic performance.

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Constable & Robinson

Constable & Robinson Ltd. is an imprint of Little, Brown which publishes fiction and non-fiction books and ebooks.

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Cyril Connolly

Cyril Vernon Connolly CBE (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English literary critic and writer.

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David Nicholls (writer)

David Alan NichollsBirths, Marriages & Deaths Index of England and Wales, 1837–2006.

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Dorothy L. Sayers

Dorothy Leigh Sayers (13 June 1893 – 17 December 1957) was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic.

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Double First

Double First is a 1988 British television sitcom that aired seven episodes on BBC 1.

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Elizabeth Goudge

Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge FRSL (24 April 1900 – 1 April 1984) was an English writer of fiction and children's books.

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Evelyn Waugh

Arthur Evelyn St.

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Fawlty Towers

Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom written by John Cleese and Connie Booth, originally broadcast on BBC Two in 1975 and 1979.

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Flashman and the Tiger

Flashman and the Tiger is a 1999 book by George MacDonald Fraser.

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Ford Madox Ford

Ford Madox Ford (né Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer; 17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals The English Review and The Transatlantic Review were important in the development of early 20th-century English and American literature.

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Framley Parsonage

Framley Parsonage is a novel by English author Anthony Trollope.

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Frank Thompson (SOE officer)

Major William Frank Thompson (17 August 1920 – 10 June 1944) was a British officer who acted as a liaison between the British Army and the Bulgarian communist partisans during the Second World War.

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Gentleman Usher of the Blue Rod

The Gentleman Usher of the Blue Rod is the Gentleman Usher to the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, established in 1818.

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George Huddesford

Rev.

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George MacDonald Fraser

George MacDonald Fraser (2 April 1925 – 2 January 2008) was a Scottish author and screenwriter.

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George Ridding

George Ridding (16 March 1828 – 30 August 1904) was an English headmaster and bishop.

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Gieves & Hawkes

Gieves & Hawkes is a bespoke men's tailor and menswear retailer located at 1 Savile Row in London, England.

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Harold Nicolson

Sir Harold George Nicolson (21 November 1886 – 1 May 1968) was a British politician, diplomat, historian, biographer, diarist, novelist, lecturer, journalist, broadcaster, and gardener.

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Henry Addington

Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth, (30 May 175715 February 1844) was a British Tory statesman who served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1804 and as Speaker of the House of Commons from 1789 to 1801.

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Humphrey Appleby

Sir Humphrey Appleby is a fictional character from the British television series Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.

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Ian Fleming

Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels.

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In the Teeth of the Evidence

In the Teeth of the Evidence is a collection of short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers first published by Victor Gollancz in 1939.

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Iris Murdoch

Dame Jean Iris Murdoch (15 July 1919 – 8 February 1999) was an Irish and British novelist and philosopher. Murdoch is best known for her novels about good and evil, sexual relationships, morality, and the power of the unconscious. Her first published novel, Under the Net (1954), was selected in 1998 as one of Modern Library's 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.

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James Bond

The James Bond series focuses on the titular character, a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections.

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James Sabben-Clare

James Sabben-Clare (9 September 1941–8 March 2017) was headmaster of Winchester College.

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Jill the Reckless

Jill The Reckless is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on October 8, 1920McIlvaine, E., Sherby, L.S. and Heineman, J.H. (1990) P. G. Wodehouse: A comprehensive bibliography and checklist. New York: James H. Heineman, pp. 36-37. by George H. Doran, New York, (under the title The Little Warrior), and in the United Kingdom by Herbert Jenkins, London, on 4 July 1921.

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Jim Sturgess

James Anthony SturgessBirths, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005.; at ancestry.com (born 16 May 1978) is an English actor and singer-songwriter.

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John Buchan

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.

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John Cleese

John Marwood Cleese (born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and presenter.

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John Crommelin-Brown

John Louis Crommelin-Brown (20 October 1888 – 11 September 1953) was an English schoolmaster, poet and first-class cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1922 and 1926.

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John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy (14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright.

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John le Carré

David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 193112 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré, was a British and Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television.

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Jonathan Lynn

Jonathan Adam Lynn (born 3 April 1943) is an English stage and film director, producer, writer, and actor.

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Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a social democratic political party in the United Kingdom that sits on the centre-left of the political spectrum.

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Lady Laura Ridding

Lady Laura Elizabeth Ridding (née Palmer; 26 March 1849 – 22 May 1939) was a British biographer, suffragist and philanthropist.

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Latin

Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence George Durrell (27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer.

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Leave It to Psmith

Leave It to Psmith is a comic novel by English author P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United Kingdom on 30 November 1923 by Herbert Jenkins, London, England, and in the United States on 14 March 1924 by George H. Doran, New York.

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Lionel Johnson

Lionel Pigot Johnson (15 March 1867 – 4 October 1902) was an English poet, essayist, and critic (although he claimed Irish descent and wrote on Celtic themes).

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List of governors of Jamaica

This is a list of viceroys in Jamaica from its initial occupation by Spain in 1509, to its independence from the United Kingdom in 1962.

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List of Old Wykehamists

Old Wykehamists are former pupils of Winchester College, so called in memory of the school's founder, William of Wykeham. Winchester College in fiction and List of Old Wykehamists are Winchester College.

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List of Peter Simple characters

These are characters created by the columnist Peter Simple (1913–2006) from 1957 onwards.

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London Review of Books

The London Review of Books (LRB) is a British literary magazine published bimonthly (twice a month) that features articles and essays on fiction and non-fiction subjects, which are usually structured as book reviews.

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Lord Alfred Douglas

Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas (22 October 1870 – 20 March 1945), also known as Bosie Douglas, was an English poet and journalist, and a lover of Oscar Wilde.

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Lord Peter Wimsey

Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey (later 17th Duke of Denver) is the fictional protagonist in a series of detective novels and short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers (and their continuation by Jill Paton Walsh).

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Max Beerbohm

Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (24 August 1872 – 20 May 1956) was an English essayist, parodist and caricaturist under the signature Max.

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Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)

In the United Kingdom, a member of Parliament (MP) is an individual elected to serve in the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Merlin

Merlin (Myrddin, Merdhyn, Merzhin) is a mythical figure prominently featured in the legend of King Arthur and best known as a magician, with several other main roles.

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Michael Wharton

Michael Wharton (19 April 1913 – 23 January 2006) was a British newspaper columnist who wrote under the pseudonym Peter Simple in the British Daily Telegraph.

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Mike (novel)

Mike is a school story by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on 15 September 1909 by Adam & Charles Black, London.

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Mountolive

Mountolive, published in 1958, is the third volume in The Alexandria Quartet series by British author Lawrence Durrell.

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Mycroft Holmes

Mycroft Holmes is a fictional character appearing in stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from 1893 to 1908.

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Neil Stacy

Neil Stacy (born 1941) is a British actor particularly known for his role in the 1980s television series Duty Free.

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Nicholas Monsarrat

Lieutenant Commander Nicholas John Turney Monsarrat FRSL RNVR (22 March 19108 August 1979) was a British novelist known for his sea stories, particularly The Cruel Sea (1951) and Three Corvettes (1942–45), but perhaps known best internationally for his novels, The Tribe That Lost Its Head and its sequel, Richer Than All His Tribe.

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Nicholas Shakespeare

Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare FRSL (born 3 March 1957) is a British novelist and biographer, described by the Wall Street Journal as "one of the best English novelists of our time".

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Notions (Winchester College)

Notions are the specialised terms and customs used by pupils of Winchester College. Winchester College in fiction and Notions (Winchester College) are Winchester College.

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Old School (novel)

Old School is an American semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel by Tobias Wolff that was first partially published in The New Yorker as a short story ahead of novelization in 2003.

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One Day (2011 film)

One Day is a 2011 romantic drama film directed by Lone Scherfig from a screenplay by David Nicholls, based on Nicholls' 2009 novel of the same name.

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One Day (novel)

One Day is a novel by David Nicholls, published in 2009.

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Our Game

Our Game (a term similar to the Great Game) is a novel by British writer John le Carré, published in 1995.

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P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, (15 October 1881 – 14 February 1975) was an English writer and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century.

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Pamela Frankau

Pamela Sydney Frankau (3 January 1908 – 8 June 1967) was a popular English novelist from a prominent artistic and literary family.

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Philosophy, politics and economics

Philosophy, politics and economics, or politics, philosophy and economics (PPE), is an interdisciplinary undergraduate or postgraduate degree which combines study from three disciplines.

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Psmith

Rupert Psmith (or Ronald Eustace Psmith, as he is called in the last of the four books in which he appears) is a recurring fictional character in several novels by British author P. G. Wodehouse, being one of Wodehouse's best-loved characters.

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Psmith in the City

Psmith in the City is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published on 23 September 1910 by Adam & Charles Black, London.

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Psmith, Journalist

Psmith, Journalist is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first released in the United Kingdom as a serial in The Captain magazine between October 1909 and February 1910, and published in book form in the UK on 29 September 1915, by Adam & Charles Black, London, and, from imported sheets, by Macmillan, New York, later that year.

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Winchester College football, also known as Winkies, is a code of football played at Winchester College. Winchester College in fiction and Winchester College football are Winchester College.

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Withnail and I

Withnail and I is a 1987 British black comedy film written and directed by Bruce Robinson.

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Yes Minister

Yes Minister is a British political satire sitcom written by Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn.

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