Bibliography

Much of the material included in this book, as will be apparent from the references, is drawn from the newspapers and magazines of the time. The following works have also been consulted.

 

Non-Fiction

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Andrew Adonis & Stephen Pollard, A Class Act: The Myth of Britain’s Classless Society (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1997 – pbk edn: Penguin, London, 1998)

Keith Allen, Grow Up: An Autobiography (Ebury Press, London, 2007 – pbk edn: 2008)

Magnus Anderson & Rebecca Levene, Grand Thieves & Tomb Raiders: How British Video Games Conquered the World (Aurum, London, 2012)

Paddy Ashdown, The Ashdown Diaries: The Ashdown Diaries Volume I: 1988–1997 (Allen Lane, London, 2000 – pbk edn: Penguin, London, 2000)

Joe Ashton, Red Rose Blues: The Story of a Good Labour Man (Macmillan, London, 2000)

Clive Aslet, Anyone for England? A Search for British Identity (Little, Brown, London, 1997)

Kenneth Baker, The Turbulent Years: My Life in Politics (Faber & Faber, London, 1993)

Morwenna Banks & Amanda Swift, The Joke’s On Us: Women in Comedy from Music Hall to the Present Day (Pandora, London, 1987)

Anthony Barnett, This Time: Our Constitutional Revolution (Vintage, London, 1997)

David Barnett, Suede – Love and Poison: the Authorised Biography (André Deutsch, London, 2003 – pbk edn: 2004)

Stephen Bayley, Labour Camp: The Failure of Style Over Substance (Pan Books, London, 1999)

Francis Beckett, Gordon Brown: Past, Present and Future (Haus, London, 2007)

Tony Benn (ed. Ruth Winstone), The End of an Era: Diaries 1980–90 (Hutchinson, London, 1992 – pbk edn: Arrow, London, 1994)

Tony Benn (ed. Ruth Winstone), Free at Last: Diaries 1991–2001 (Hutchinson, London, 2002 – pbk edn: Arrow, London, 2003)

Alan Bennett, Writing Home (Faber & Faber, London, 1994 – pbk edn: 1995)

Cherie Blair, Speaking for Myself (Little, Brown, London, 2008)

Tony Blair, A Journey (Hutchinson, London, 2010)

David Blunkett, The Blunkett Tapes: My Life in the Bear Pit (Bloomsbury, London, 2006)

Tom Bower, Gordon Brown (HarperCollins, London, 2004 – revised pbk edn: Gordon Brown, Prime Minister, Harper Perennial, 2007)

Duncan Brack & Iain Dale (eds), Prime Minister Portillo . . . and Other Things that Never Happened (Politico’s, London, 2003)

Gyles Brandreth, Breaking the Code: Westminster Diaries (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1999 – pbk edn: Phoenix, London, 2000)

Rory Bremner, John Bird & John Fortune with Geoff Atkinson, You Are Here: A Dossier (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2004)

Colin Brown, Fighting Talk: The Biography of John Prescott (Simon & Schuster, London, 1997)

Craig Brown, The Tony Years (Ebury Press, London, 2006)

Julie Burchill, The Guardian Columns 1998–2000 (Orion, London, 2001)

Vince Cable, Free Radical: A Memoir (Atlantic, London, 2009 – pbk edn: 2010)

Alastair Campbell (ed. Richard Stott), The Blair Years: Extracts from the Alastair Campbell Diaries (Hutchinson, London, 2007)

Beatrix Campbell, Diana, Princess of Wales: How Sexual Politics Shook the Monarchy (Women’s Press, London, 1998)

Denis Campbell, Pete May & Andrew Shields, The Lad Done Bad: Sex, Sleaze and Scandal in English Football (Penguin, London, 1996)

Brian Cathcart, Were You Still Up for Portillo? (Penguin, London, 1997)

Alan Clark, Diaries (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1993 – pbk edn: Orion, London, 1994)

Alan Clark, The Tories: Conservatives and the Nation State 1922–1997 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1998 – pbk edn: Phoenix, London, 1999)

Alan Clark (ed. Ion Trewin), The Last Diaries: In and Out of the Wilderness (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2002 – pbk edn: Phoenix, London, 2003)

Julian Clary, A Young Man’s Passage (Ebury Press, London, 2005 – pbk edn: 2006)

Max Clifford & Angela Levin, Max Clifford: Read All About It (Virgin, London, 2006)

Nick Cohen, Pretty Straight Guys (Faber & Faber, London, 2003)

Nick Cohen, What’s Left: How the Left Lost Its Way (Fourth Estate, London, 2007 – pbk edn: Harper Perennial, London, 2007)

Nik Cohn, Yes We Have No: Adventures in Other England (Secker & Warburg, London, 1999)

John Cole, As It Seemed To Me: Political Memoirs (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1995 – revised pbk edn: Phoenix, London, 1996)

Hal Colebatch, Blair’s Britain: British Culture Wars and New Labour (Claridge Press, London, 1999)

Julian Critchley & Morrison Halcrow, Collapse of Stout Party: The Decline and Fall of the Tories (Victor Gollancz, London, 1997 – Indigo, London, 1998)

Edwina Currie, Diaries 1987–1992 (Little Brown, London, 2002 – pbk edn: Time Warner, London, 2003)

Edwina Currie, Diaries Volume II: 1992–1997 (Biteback Publishing, London, 2012)

Iain Dale, The Unofficial Book of Political Lists (Robson Books, London, 1997)

Theodore Dalrymple, If Symptoms Persist (André Deutsch, London, 1994)

Nick Danziger, Danziger’s Britain: A Journey to the Edge (HarperCollins, London, 1996)

John Diamond, Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations (Vintage, London, 2001)

G.M.F. Drower, Neil Kinnock: The Path to Leadership (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1984)

Niall Edworthy, The Second Most Important Job in the Country (Virgin, London, 2000)

Larry Elliott & Dan Atkinson, The Age of Insecurity (Verso, London, 1998)

Matthew Engel & Ian Morrison, The Sportspages Almanac 1991: The Complete Sporting Factbook (Simon & Schuster, London, 1990)

Matthew Engel & Ian Morrison, The Sportspages Almanac 1992: The Complete Sporting Factbook (Simon & Schuster, London, 1991)

Brendan Evans, Thatcherism and British Politics 1975–1999 (Sutton Publishing, Gloucestershire, 1999)

Nigel Farage, Flying Free (Biteback Publishing, London, 2010)

Gillian Freeman, The Undergrowth of Literature (Thomas Nelson & Sons, London, 1967 – pbk edn: Panther, London, 1969)

Teresa Gorman with Heather Kirby, The Bastards: Dirty Tricks and the Challenge to Europe (Pan, London, 1993)

Teresa Gorman, No, Prime Minister! (John Blake, London, 2001)

Bryan Gould, Goodbye to All That (Macmillan, London, 1995)

Jonathan Green, Days in the Life: Voices from the English Underground 1961–1971 (William Heinemann, London, 1988 – pbk edn: Pimlico, London, 1998)

Peter Hain, Outside In (Biteback, London, 2012)

Luke Haines, Bad Vibes: Britpop and My Part in Its Downfall (William Heinemann, London, 2009)

John Harris, The Last Party: Britpop, Blair and the Demise of English Rock (Fourth Estate, London, 2003 – pbk edn: Harper Perennial, London, 2004)

Nick Harris, The Foreign Revolution: How Overseas Footballers Changed the English Game (Aurum, London, 2006 – originally published as England Their England, Pitch, London, 2003)

Stephen Haseler, The End of the House of Windsor (I.B. Tauris, London, 1993)

Ian Hernon, The Blair Decade (Politico’s, London, 2007)

Michael Heseltine, Life in the Jungle: My Autobiography (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2000)

Robert Hewison, Culture and Consensus: England, Art and Politics since 1940 (Methuen, London, 1995 – rev pbk edn: 1997)

Douglas Hurd, Memoirs (Little, Brown, London, 2003)

Will Hutton, The State We’re In (Jonathan Cape, London, 1995 – rev pbk edn: Vintage, London, 1996)

Armando Iannucci, Facts and Fancies (Michael Joseph, London, 1997)

Eddie Izzard with David Quantick & Steve Double, Dress to Kill (Virgin, London, 1998 – pbk edn: 2000)

Alex James, A Bit of a Blur: The Autobiography (Little, Brown, London, 2007)

Stuart Jeffries, Mrs Slocombe’s Pussy: Growing Up in Front of the Telly (Flamingo, London, 2000 – pbk edn: 2001)

Simon Jenkins, Thatcher and Sons: A Revolution in Three Acts (Allen Lane, London, 2006 – rev pbk edn: Penguin, London, 2007

Martin Johnes, Wales Since 1939 (Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2012)

Boris Johnson, Friends, Voters, Countrymen: Jottings on the Stump (HarperCollins, London, 2001)

Frank Johnson (ed. Virginia Fraser), Best Seat in the House: The Wit and Parliamentary Chronicles of Frank Johnson (JR Books, London, 2009)

Janet Jones, Labour of Love: The ‘Partly-Political’ Diary of a Cabinet Minister’s Wife (Politico’s, London, 1999)

Nicholas Jones, Campaign 1997: How the General Election Was Won and Lost (Indigo, London, 1997)

Penny Junor, The Major Enigma (Michael Joseph, London, 1993)

Penny Junor, Charles: Victim or Villain? (HarperCollins, London, 1998)

John Kampfner, Blair’s Wars (Free Press, London, 2003 – pbk edn: 2004)

Jack Kibble-White & Steve Williams, The Encyclopaedia of Classic Saturday Night Telly (Allison & Busby, 2007 – pbk edn: 2008)

Oona King, House Music: The Oona King Diaries (Bloomsbury, London, 2007)

Nicholas Kochan, Ann Widdecombe: Right from the Beginning (Politico’s, London, 2000)

Stewart Lee, How I Escaped My Certain Fate: The Life and Deaths of a Stand-Up Comedian (Faber & Faber, London, 2010)

Mark Lewisohn, Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy (BBC Worldwide, London, 1998)

Richard Lindley, Panorama: Fifty Years of Pride and Paranoia (Politico’s, London, 2002)

Ken Livingstone, Livingstone’s Labour: A Programme for the Nineties (Unwin Hyman, London, 1989)

Donald MacIntyre, Mandelson: The Biography (HarperCollins, London, 1999)

David McKittrick & David McVea, Making Sense of the Troubles (Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 2000 – revised edn: Penguin, London, 2001)

Andy McSmith, Faces of Labour: The Inside Story (Verso, London, 1996)

Stuart Maconie, 3862 Days (Virgin, London, 1999)

John Major, The Autobiography (HarperCollins, London, 1999 – pbk edn: 2000)

Peter Mandelson, The Third Man: Life at the Heart of New Labour (Harper Press, London, 2010)

Peter Mandelson & Roger Liddle, The Blair Revolution (Faber & Faber, London, 1996)

Christopher Meyer, DC Confidential: The Controversial Memoirs of Britain’s Ambassador to the U.S. at the Time of 9/11 and the Iraq War (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2005)

Mick Middles, Manic Street Preachers: A Biography (Omnibus, London, 1999)

Bob Monkhouse, Over the Limit: My Secret Diaries 1993–8 (Century, London, 1998)

Gregor Muir, Lucky Kunst: The Rise and Fall of Young British Art (Aurum, London, 2009 – pbk edn: 2010)

Chris Mullin (ed. Ruth Winstone), A View from the Foothills: The Diaries of Chris Mullin (Profile, London, 2009 – pbk edn: 2010)

Jo-Anne Nadler, William Hague: In His Own Right (Politico’s, London, 2000)

James Naughtie, The Rivals: The Intimate Story of a Political Marriage (Fourth Estate, London, 2001 – rev pbk edn: 2002)

John Nott, Mr Wonderful Takes a Cruise: The Adventures of an Old Age Pensioner (Ebury Press, London, 2004)

Lucy O’Brien, She Bop II (originally published as She Bop, Penguin, London, 1995 – new edn: Continuum, London, 2002)

John O’Farrell, Things Can Only Get Better: Eighteen Miserable Years in the Life of a Labour Supporter (Doubleday, London, 1998 – pbk edn: Black Swan, London, 1999)

John O’Farrell, Global Village Idiot: Dispatches from the Turn of a Century (Doubleday, London, 2001 – pbk edn: Black Swan, London, 2002)

Peter Oborne, The Triumph of the Political Class (Simon & Schuster, London, 2007 – pbk edn: Pocket Books, London, 2008)

Peter Oborne & Simon Walters, Alastair Campbell (Aurum, London, 2004)

John Osborne, Damn You, England: Collected Prose (Faber & Faber, London, 1994 – pbk edn: 1999)

Matthew Parris, Great Parliamentary Scandals: Four Centuries of Calumny, Smear and Innuendo (Robson Books, London, 1995 – rev pbk edn: 1997)

Matthew Parris, Off-Message: New Labour, New Sketches (Robson, London, 2001)

Tony Parsons, Big Mouth Strikes Again: A Further Collection of Two-Fisted Journalism (André Deutsch, London, 1998 – pbk edn: 1999)

Anna Pasternak, Princess in Love (Bloomsbury, London, 1994)

Chris Patten, Not Quite the Diplomat: Home Truths about World Affairs (Allen Lane, London, 2005 – pbk edn: Penguin, London, 2006)

John Patten, Things to Come: The Tories in the 21st Century (Sinclair-Stevenson, London, 1995)

Jeremy Paxman, The English: A Portrait of a People (Michael Joseph, London, 1998 – pbk edn: Penguin, London, 1999)

Edward Pearce, The Senate of Lilliput (Faber & Faber, London, 1983)

Peter Gerard Pearse & Nigel Matheson, Ken Livingstone, or The End of Civilization as We Know It: A Selection of Quotes, Quips and Quirks (Proteus Books, London, 1982)

Harry Pearson, The Far Corner: A Mazy Dribble through North-East Football (Little, Brown, London, 1994 – pbk edn: Warner, London, 1996)

Melanie Phillips, All Must Have Prizes (Little, Brown, London, 1996 – rev pbk edn: Warner, London, 1998)

Jonathan Powell, The New Machiavelli: How to Wield Power in the Modern World (Bodley Head, London, 2010 – pbk edn: Vintage, London, 2011)

John Prescott with Hunter Davies, Prezza: My Story (Headline Review, London, 2008 – pbk edn: Docks to Downing Street: My Story, 2009)

Lance Price, The Spin Doctor’s Diary: Inside Number 10 with New Labour (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2005)

Sonia Purnell, Just Boris: The Irresistible Rise of a Political Celebrity (Aurum, London, 2011)

Giles Radice, Diaries 1980–2001: From Political Disaster to Election Triumph (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 2004)

Mac Randall, Exit Music: The Radiohead Story (Omnibus, London, 2000)

Amy Raphael, Never Mind the Bollocks: Women Rewrite Rock (Virago, London, 1995)

Andrew Rawnsley, Servants of the People: The Inside Story of New Labour (Hamish Hamilton, London, 2000)

John Redwood, The Death of Britain? The UK’s Constitutional Crisis (Macmillan, London, 1999)

Mark Reynolds (compiler), The Wrong Kind of Shirts 2: More Curious Quips and Wild Accusations from the Soccer World (Fourth Estate, London, 1997)

Mark Reynolds (compiler), The Wrong Kind of Shirts ’99 (Fourth Estate, London, 1999)

Steve Richards (ed.), Preparing for Power: New Statesman Interviews 1996–1997 (New Statesman Books, London 1997)

Steve Richards, Whatever It Takes: The Real Story of Gordon Brown and New Labour (Fourth Estate, London, 2010)

Paul Routledge, Gordon Brown: The Biography (Simon & Schuster, London, 1998 – rev pbk edn: Pocket Books, London, 1998)

Paul Routledge, Mandy: The Unauthorised Biography of Peter Mandelson (Simon & Schuster, London, 1999)

Anthony Sampson, The Changing Anatomy of Britain (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1982)

Jon Savage, Time Travel – From the Sex Pistols to Nirvana: Pop, Media and Sexuality, 1977–96 (Chatto & Windus, London, 1996 – pbk edn: Vintage, London, 1997)

Derek Scott, Off Whitehall: A View from Downing Street by Tony Blair’s Adviser (I.B. Tauris, London, 2004)

Anthony Seldon (ed.), How Tory Governments Fall: The Tory Party in Power since 1783 (Fontana Press, London, 1996)

Anthony Seldon with Chris Ballinger, Daniel Collings & Peter Snowdon, Blair (Free Press, London, 2004 – pbk edn: 2005)

Gillian Shephard, Shephard’s Watch: Illusions of Power in British Politics (Politico’s, London, 2000)

Robert Shepherd, Enoch Powell: A Biography (Hutchinson, London, 1996 – pbk edn: Pimlico, London, 1997)

Peter Shore, Leading the Left (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1993)

Clare Short, An Honourable Deception? New Labour, Iraq and the Misuse of Power (Free Press, London, 2004)

Linda Smith (ed. Warren Lakin & Ian Parsons), I Think the Nurses Are Stealing My Clothes: The Very Best of Linda Smith (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2006)

Jon Sopel, Tony Blair: The Moderniser (Michael Joseph, London, 1995)

Michael Spicer, The Spicer Diaries (Biteback, London, 2012)

Mark Steel, Reasons to Be Cheerful: From Punk to New Labour through the Eyes of a Dedicated Troublemaker (Scribner, London, 2001 – pbk edn: 2002)

Philip Stephens, Tony Blair: The Price of Leadership (Penguin, New York, 2004 – rev pbk edn: Politico’s, London, 2004)

Richard Strange, Strange: Punks and Drunks and Flicks and Kicks – the Memoirs of Richard Strange (André Deutsch, London, 2002)

Jack Straw, Last Man Standing: Memoirs of a Political Survivor (Macmillan, London, 2012)

Mark Stuart, Douglas Hurd: The Public Servant (Mainstream, Edinburgh, 1998)

John Sutherland, Offensive Literature: Decensorship in Britain 1960–1982 (Junction Books, London, 1982)

John Sutherland, Reading the Decades: Fifty Years of the Nation’s Bestselling Books (BBC Worldwide, London, 2002)

Norman Tebbit, Upwardly Mobile (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1988)

Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years (HarperCollins, London, 1993)

Margaret Thatcher, The Path to Power (HarperCollins, London, 1995)

Ben Thompson, Sunshine on Putty: The Golden Age of British Comedy from Vic Reeves to The Office (Fourth Estate, London, 2004 – pbk edn: HarperCollins, London, 2004)

Alwyn W. Turner, Rejoice! Rejoice! Britain in the 1980s (Aurum Press, London, 2010)

Simon Walters, Tory Wars: conservatives in crisis (Politico’s, London, 2001)

Richard Weight, Patriots: National Identity in Britain 1940–2000 (Macmillan, London, 2002 – rev pbk edn: Pan, London, 2003)

Louise Wener, Different for Girls: My True-Life Adventures in Pop (Ebury, London, 2010)

Geoffrey Wheatcroft, The Strange Death of Tory England (Allen Lane, London, 2005 – pbk edn: Penguin, London, 2005)

Hywel Williams, Guilty Men: Conservative Decline and Fall 1992–1997 (Aurum, London, 1998)

A.N. Wilson, The Rise and Fall of the House of Windsor (Sinclair-Stevenson, London, 1993)

Woodrow Wyatt (ed. Sarah Curtis), The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt Volume Two (Macmillan, London, 1999)

Hugo Young, This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair (Macmillan, London, 1998)

Hugo Young (ed. Ion Trewin), The Hugo Young Papers: Thirty Years of British Politics – Off the Record (Allen Lane, London, 2008)

Fiction

Note: Where a paperback edition is shown, it indicates that any page references are to that edition.

David Baddiel, Time for Bed (Little, Brown, London, 1996)

David Baddiel, Whatever Loves Means (Little, Brown, London, 2000)

John Bird & John Fortune, The Long Johns (Hutchinson, London, 1996)

Terence Blacker, The Fame Hotel (Bloomsbury, London, 1992 – pbk edn: Black Swan, London, 1993)

Christopher Brookmyre, Quite Ugly One Morning (Little, Brown, London, 1996 – pbk edn: Abacus, London, 1997)

Edwina Currie, A Parliamentary Affair (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1994 – pbk edn: 1994)

Colin Dexter, Death Is Now My Neighbour (Macmillan, London, 1996 – pbk edn: Pan, London, 1997)

Michael Dobbs, The Final Cut (HarperCollins, London, 1995)

Jenny Eclair, Camberwell Beauty (Little, Brown, London, 2000 – pbk edn: Warner, London, 2001)

Ben Elton, Inconceivable (Bantam Press, London, 1999 – pbk edn: Black Swan, London, 2000)

Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary (Picador, London, 1996 – pbk edn: 1997)

Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Picador, London, 1999)

E.M. Forster, Maurice (Edward Arnold, London, 1971 – pbk edn: Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1972)

Reg Gadney, Just When We Are Safest (Faber & Faber, London, 1995)

Jane Green, Straight Talking (Mandarin, London, 1997)

Jeremy Hardy, Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation (Methuen, London, 1993)

Tristan Hawkins, The Anarchist (Flamingo, London, 1996)

Reginald Hill, On Beulah Height (HarperCollins, London, 1998 – pbk edn: 1999)

Susan Hill, Breaking Glass (Star, London, 1980)

Ian Hislop (ed.), The Private Eye Annual 1997 (Private Eye, London, 1997)

Nick Hornby, High Fidelity (Victor Gollancz, London, 1995 – pbk edn: Indigo, London, 2000)

Nick Hornby, About a Boy (Victor Gollancz, London, 1998 – pbk edn: Indigo, London, 1999)

David Lodge, Therapy (Martin Secker & Warburg, London, 1995)

Peter Lovesey, Upon a Dark Night (Little, Brown, London, 1997 – pbk edn: Time Warner, London, 2003)

John O’Farrell, The Best a Man Can Get (Doubleday, London, 2000)

Michael Palin, Hemingway’s Chair (Methuen, London, 1995 – pbk edn: Arrow, London, 1996)

Tony Parsons, Man and Boy (HarperCollins, London, 1999 – pbk edn: 2000)

Nigel Planer, The Right Man (Hutchinson, London, 1998)

Stephen Rawlings, Jane and Her Master (Silver Moon, London, 1996)

Sue Townsend, The Queen and I (Methuen, London, 1992 – pbk edn: Mandarin, London, 1993)

Sue Townsend, Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (Michael Joseph, London, 1999 – pbk edn: Penguin, London, 2000)

Louise Wener, Goodnight Steve McQueen (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2002 – pbk edn: 2003)

Nigel West, Murder in the Commons (Macmillan, London, 1992 – pbk edn: Headline, London, 1993)

Nigel Williams, East of Wimbledon (Faber & Faber, London, 1993 – pbk edn: 1994)

A.N. Wilson, The Vicar of Sorrows (Sinclair-Stevenson, London, 1993)

Films and Television Programmes

Note: Films are listed by director. TV programmes are credited to their creators, though other writers may also have been involved in the series.

Caroline Aherne, The Mrs Merton Show (Granada Television, 1994–8)

Michael Aitkens, Waiting for God (BBC Television, 1990–4)

Kevin Allen, Twin Town (Polygram Filmed Entertainment, 1997)

Alexander Armstrong & Ben Miller, Armstrong and Miller (Absolutely Productions, 1997–2001)

David Attwood, Wild West (Channel 4 Films, 1992)

Richard Bates, The Darling Buds of May (Yorkshire Television, 1991–3)

M.C. Beaton, Hamish Macbeth (BBC Scotland, 1995–7)

Antonia Bird, Face (BBC Films, 1997)

Danny Boyle, Shallow Grave (Channel 4 Films, 1994)

Danny Boyle, Trainspotting (PolyGram, 1996)

Jo Brand, Through the Cakehole (Channel 4 Television, 1993–6)

Craig Brown, Norman Ormal: A Very Political Turtle (Tiger Aspect Productions, 1998)

Peter Cattaneo, The Full Monty (Channel 4 Films, 1997)

Gurinder Chadha, Bhaji on the Beach (Channel 4 Films, 1993)

Ted Childs, Kavanagh QC (1995–2001)

Roy Clarke, Last of the Summer Wine (BBC Television, 1973–2010)

Roy Clarke, Keeping Up Appearances (BBC Television, 1990–5)

Stephen Daldry, Billy Elliot (BBC Films/Tiger Aspect, 2000)

Andrew Davies & Bernadette Davies, Game On (Hat Trick Productions, 1995–8)

Jack Dee, The Jack Dee Show (Open Mike Productions, 1992–4)

Jack Dee, Jack Dee Live at the Duke of York’s Theatre (Open Mike Productions, 1992)

Colin Dexter, Inspector Morse (Zenith Productions, 1987–2000)

Brian Eastman & Stuart Doughty, Bugs (Carnival Films, 1995–9)

Richard Fegen & Andrew Norris, The Brittas Empire (BBC Television, 1991–7)

Tim Firth, All Quiet on the Preston Front (BBC Television, 1994–7)

Peter Flannery, Our Friends in the North (BBC Television, 1996)

Lucy Gannon, Hope and Glory (BBC Television, 1999–2000)

Mel Gibson, Braveheart (Icon Productions, 1995)

Caroline Graham, Midsomer Murders (ITV, 1997– )

Andy Hamilton & Guy Jenkin, Drop the Dead Donkey (Channel 4 Television, 1990–8)

Charlie Hanson, Harry Hill: First Class Scamp (1998)

Have I Got News for You (Hat Trick Productions, 1990– )

Mark Herman, Brassed Off (Channel 4 Films/Miramax, 1996)

Nicholas Hytner, The Madness of King George (Channel 4 Films, 1994)

Armando Iannucci, The Saturday Night Armistice (BBC Television, 1995), The Friday Night Armistice (1996–8), The Election Night Armistice (1997)

Armando Iannucci, The Armando Iannucci Shows (Talkback Productions, 2001)

Amy Jenkins, This Life (World Productions, 1996–7)

Shekhar Kapur, Elizabeth (Working Title, 1998)

Peter Kay, That Peter Kay Thing (Open Mike Productions, 1999)

Paul Kaye, Anyone for Pennis? (BBC Television, 1995), Very Important Pennis (1996–7), Dennis Pennis RIP (1997)

Patrick Keiller, London (BFI, 1992)

Chris Langham, Guy Jenkin, Sean Hardie & John Cleese, Look at the State We’re In! (Video Arts/Sisyphus, 1995)

Linda La Plante, Prime Suspect (Granada Television, 1991–2006)

Mike Leigh, Naked (Thin Man Films, 1993)

Ken Loach, Ladybird, Ladybird (Channel 4 Films, 1994)

Ken Loach, My Name Is Joe (Channel 4 Films, 1998)

Jimmy McGovern, Cracker (Granada Television, 1993–6)

Patrick Marber, Steve Coogan & Armando Iannucci, Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge (Talkback Productions, 1994)

Tony Marchant, Holding On (BBC Television, 1997)

Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran, The New Statesman (Yorkshire Television, 1987–94)

Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran, Goodnight Sweetheart (BBC Television, 1993–9)

Paula Milne, The Politician’s Wife (Producers Films, 1995)

Peter Moffat, North Square (Channel 4 Television, 2000–1)

Chris Morris, Brass Eye (Channel 4 Television, 1997–2001)

Chris Morris & Armando Iannucci, The Day Today (BBC Television, 1994)

John Morton, People Like Us (BBC Television, 1999–2000)

Mike Newell, Four Weddings and a Funeral (PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, 1994)

G.F. Newman, Judge John Deed (BBC Television, 2001–7)

Andrew Norriss & Richard Fegen, The Brittas Empire (BBC Television, 1993–2001)

Simon Nye, Men Behaving Badly (Hartswood Films, 1992–8)

Damien O’Donnell, East Is East (Channel 4 Films, 1999)

Gary Oldman, Nil by Mouth (Europa, 1997)

Andrew Payne, Pie in the Sky (BBC Television, 1994–7)

David Renwick, One Foot in the Grave (BBC Television, 1990–2000)

David Renwick, Jonathan Creek (BBC Television, 1997–)

Tony Robinson, Maid Marian and Her Merry Men (BBC Television, 1989–94)

Jennifer Saunders, Absolutely Fabulous (BBC Television, 1992– )

Paul Whitehouse & Charlie Higson, The Fast Show (BBC Television, 1994–2000)

J.C. Wilsher, Between the Lines (World Productions, 1992–4)

R.D. Wingfield, A Touch of Frost (Yorkshire Television, 1992–2010)

Victoria Wood, Dinnerladies (BBC Television, 1998–2000)