January Books 20) Scotch on the Rocks, by Douglas Hurd and Andrew Osmond

[nwhyte]

A Conservative prime minister, having failed to secure an majority for his party at Westminster, finds himself dealing with a Scottish Nationalist Party leader who is ascendant in Scotland; can a slide towards independence be bought off with an offer of maximised devolution? Obvious fantasy, dear boy

Comments

[akicif]

Not read this in decades, but I remember it as being quite fun. I found a collection of Hurd's short stories a few years ago that weren't too bad: they had the feel of perhaps having been written in the hope of being televised.

[nojay]

I have a vague recollection that Scotch on the Rocks was in fact made into a TV miniseries or something of that ilk. To the Wikimobile!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_on_the_Rocks

Yep, BBC TV series, tapes wiped so it's no longer available unless a 16mm telecine print exists somewhere or some early VTR pirate recorded it off-air.

[parrot_knight]

It might be worth tracking down Radio Times's coverage.