Characters in this story include some of Britain’s most famous writers, such as Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, and Tom Sharpe, the writer of such
works as Wilt and Porterhouse Blue. The story is set in 1962 and represents a snippet of our social history. In the story, Home Secretary Lord Butler reviews the evidence from the A6 murder, before the hanging of James Hanratty, one of the last hangings to take place in Britain.
In the background, former Monty Python and Goodies team members John Cleese, Eric Idle, Graham Chapman, Tim Brooke Taylor and Bill Oddie are rehearsing a comedy sketch (“The Green Line Bus”) prior to a Footlights