Dead Sheep

It is 1989 and a seemingly invincible Prime Minister has sacked Geoffrey Howe, her Foreign Secretary. She apparently had nothing to fear from him: his speaking skills had famously been, compared to those of a dead sheep. But, a year later, inspired by his wife Elspeth, whose relationship with Thatcher was notoriously frosty, Howe overcame his limitations to destroy Mrs. Thatcher with one of the great political speeches. Dead Sheep is, a drama tinged with tragedy and comedy. Its themes, loyalty, love, political morality and Britishness, are still uncannily relevant today.