James Walton

Enough plotlines to power several seasons of The West Wing: BBC1’s Roadkill reviewed

Plus: Sara Pascoe’s Out of My Mind is one of those ‘brave’ sitcoms that contain almost no jokes

Hugh Laurie attempting to imbue prime minister Peter Laurence with some charm in David Hare's Roadkill. Image: BBC / The Forge / Robert Viglasky / Matt Burlem 
issue 24 October 2020

Like many a political thriller before it, BBC1’s Roadkill began with a politician emerging into the daylight to face a bank of clicking cameras and bellowing journalists. In this case, the politician was Peter Laurence (Hugh Laurie), the Tory minister for transport, who’d just won a libel case against a newspaper that had accused him of using his cabinet position for personal profit.

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