Episode 1

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Duration: 30 minutes

Peter Mannion, the Secretary of State for Social Affairs, is told to launch his coalition partner Fergus's new 'Networked Nation' policy at a school. Peter doesn't even know how to right-click a mouse and would rather be celebrating his wedding anniversary, but Stewart Pearson won't hear otherwise. So Fergus is left in charge of drawing up a list of staff redundancies, and Terri Coverley is pretty sure she can make Fergus's hit list if she works hard at under-performing, and finds help from an unexpected direction.

Peter's policy launch is a disaster, and the disaster recovery plan is even more of a disaster.

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Credits

Peter Mannion
Roger Allam
Phil Smith
Will Smith
Terri Coverley
Joanna Scanlan
Fergus Williams
Geoffrey Streatfield
Adam Kenyon
Ben Willbond
Glenn Cullen
James Smith
Stewart Pearson
Vincent Franklin
Emma Messenger
Olivia Poulet
Teacher
Dave Florez
Raj
Hamza Jeetoa
Charlotte
Jessica Henwick
Journalist
Manjinder Virk
Journalist
Gareth Tunley
Journalist
Adam Tandy
Journalist
Dan Mersh
Journalist
Martha Cope
Journalist
Tom Andrews
Actor
Roger Drew
Director
Natalie Bailey
Producer
Adam Tandy
Executive Producer
Armando Iannucci
Writer
Simon Blackwell
Writer
Tony Roche
Writer
David Quantick
Writer
Will Smith
Writer
Sean Gray
Writer
Armando Iannucci
Writer
Dan Gaster
Writer
Ian Martin

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