17. A Question of Attribution

While looking for a drama beginning with the letter Q, having
decided to ignore that programme about that Bernard fellow, we
quickly agreed that A Question of Attribution would make an
excellent choice, partly as we knew it to be a celebrated and award
winning drama, but also because it would be our first Alan Bennett.
Oh mother! First written and performed for the stage in 1988, this
drama about the fourth member of the Cambridge Spy Ring, Sir
Anthony Blunt, was adapted for television in 1991 and features
James Fox as Blunt, David Calder as his interrogator Chubb, and
Prunella Scales as HMQ (Her Majesty the Queen). As well as praising
Bennett's deft script and the performances of Fox, Calder and
Scales, Andy and Martin discussed public access to art, the value
of a 'time in Perth' clock, and the identity of the fifth member of
the Cambridge Spy Ring. Step forward Lemaitre from The Reign of
Terror and indeed Beta from The Krotons. Or maybe not. It doesn't
take the pair long to get into politics and the dangers of our
post-truth world, in a week when Britain was set to break
international law because of the self-serving idiocy of its current
government. What fun! Next Time: Ready When You Are, Mr McGill