Whipped
Based on true accounts of rarely heard details of newly elected, young, female MPs. Meg, a 26-year-old single mother, has had to get a loan out to cover her election campaign.
Whipped
by Becky Prestwich
This drama looks at the very rarely seen or heard detail of the life of a newly elected young, female MP, with fascinating detail of what it’s really like at Westminster. Meg’s party is in opposition but it’s on the way up, and so is she. But it's an uphill battle. She begins her working life in Westminster: the seat of democracy - with an office, perched between a sink and a clothes rail, in the ladies cloakroom. Newbies have to beg, borrow or steal an office. She has a love/hate relationship with the Chief Whip when her credibility is threatened.
Meg - Molly Windsor
Amina/mum - Nina Wadia
Davey - Reuben Johnson
Noah - Jake Ferretti
Naomi - Verity Henry
Dad/Speaker/PM - Russell Richardson
Rory - Stanley Jude Kinsey
Production Co-ordinator -Pippa Day
Sound - Simon Highfield
Political advisor - Dr. Louise Thompson, Senior Lecturer in Politics at University of Manchester
Produced and directed by Pauline Harris
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- Tue 22 Nov 2022 14:15Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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