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Drama, based on recent events, telling the story of the late Dr David Kelly, an expert caught in the crossfire between the government and the BBC over the war in Iraq.
Award-winning stage and screen actor and artistic director of the Globe Theatre, Mark Rylance, takes the role of Dr Kelly, the Government Inspector.
From the producers of Holy Cross and Channel 4's The Hamburg Cell, The Government Inspector is based on extensive original research and was written and directed by the BAFTA-winning Peter Kosminsky.
David Kelly was one of the government's foremost experts on Weapons of Mass Destruction. The drama depicts Dr Kelly's time as a United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq in the 1990s through the frenetic weeks and months in which the Blair government attempted to persuade a doubtful nation of its case for war.
It charts David Kelly's own journey from behind-the-scenes expert to a man exposed to a media onslaught as he himself became a weapon, deployed by all sides in their respective battles for survival.
The Government Inspector: first shown on Channel 4 March 2005.
It charts David Kelly's own journey from behind-the-scenes expert to a man exposed to a media onslaught as he himself became a weapon, deployed by all sides in their respective battles for survival.
The Government Inspector: first shown on Channel 4 March 2005.
