The Audience

Was shown on Thursday 19 Apr, 2018

Cert: PG - sex references, one use of racist language, mild bad language | Duration: 167 mins

Starring Helen Mirren Director Stephen Daldry Writer Peter Morgan

Genre: Recorded Theatre

For sixty years, Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace - a meeting like no other in British public life - it is private. Both parties have an unspoken agreement never to repeat what is said. Not even to their spouses.
The Audience breaks this contract of silence - and imagines a series of pivotal meetings between the Downing Street incumbents and their Queen. From Churchill to Cameron, each Prime Minister has used these private conversations as a sounding board and a confessional - sometimes intimate, sometimes explosive.