Cabinet Confidential (2001)
A revealing one-off documentary that provides an inside view of how Tony Blair and former prime ministers - including Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher and John Major - have run their cabinet, the highest decision-making body in the land. Through candid interviews, rare archive footage and filming inside No 10, presenter Michael Cockerell opens the door to the Government's own chamber of secrets as he seeks the answer to the question: is the notion of cabinet government an obsolete concept?
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Michael Cockerell as Self - Narrator |
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Tony Benn as Self |
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Tony Blair as Self |
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James Callaghan as Self |
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Frank Dobson as Self |
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Anthony Eden as Self (archive footage) |
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Michael Foot as Self (archive footage) |
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Peter Hennessy as Self |
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Michael Heseltine as Self |
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Douglas Hurd as Self |
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Roy Jenkins as Self (archive footage) |
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John Major as Self |
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Mo Mowlam as Self |
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Cecil Parkinson as Self |
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Charles Powell as Self |
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John Prescott as Self |
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John Redwood as Self |
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Margaret Thatcher as Self |
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Shirley Williams as Self |
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Harold Wilson as Self (archive footage) |
| Production | James Giles | Producer |
| Production | Martin Small | Producer |
| Editing | Anne Tyerman | Editor |
| Production | Kerry Dalton | Production Manager |
| Art | Paula Thompson | Graphic Designer |
| Sound | Steve Hubbard | Sound |
| Sound | Rowan Jennings | Sound Mixer |
| Sound | Roger Lorenz | Sound |
| Sound | Damian Reynolds | Sound Mixer |
| Camera | Neil Higginson | Camera Operator |
| Editing | Todd Dalton | Online Editor |
| Editing | Chris Joyce | Editor |
| Editing | Paul Rapley | Editor |
| Editing | Michael Sanders | Online Editor |
| Production | Rebecca Hickie | Researcher |
| Production | Pete West | Researcher |