Originally Posted by
corporate-wage-slave
The TV version was based on a Middle East country, but the real version happened when Tony Crosland was Foreign Secretary and went to Islamabad, Pakistan with his wife Susan, in the mid 1970s. Tony Crosland had a notoriously low tolerance of boredom. Susan kept her vase, it was valued at £45.
I gather that everything in Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister either actually happened or was very similar to what happened. Antony Jay said the show basically wrote itself.
Last edited by Jagboi; Mar 3, 2020 at 4:10 pm