Number 10

7.0(2)|1983-02-13|1 seasons, 7 episodes

Drama

Overview

Drama series about the private lives of seven British prime ministers who lived in Number 10 Downing Street between the 1780s and the 1920s: William Pitt the Younger, the Duke of Wellington (Arthur Wellesley), Benjamin Disraeli, William Ewart Gladstone, David Lloyd-George, Herbert Henry Asquith and James Ramsay MacDonald.

Episodes

Miniseries(7)

S1E1 · 1983-02-13 · 55m

Old Glad Eyes

Whilst Englishmen were being murdered in Dublin, the Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone, was being tailed by police around London's brothels.

S1E2 · 1983-02-20 · 55m

Underdog

The first Labour government under Ramsay MacDonald.

S1E3 · 1983-02-27 · 55m

A Woman of Style

During the First World War, while the Prime Minister David Lloyd George was busy fighting his generals as well as the Germans, his wife Margaret and his mistress Frances Stevenson were fighting their own battle at Number 10.

S1E4 · 1983-03-06 · 55m

The Iron Duke

Despite the Duke of Wellington's enormous popularity, he incurred the nation's wrath by appearing to sympathise with the Irish Catholics. His reputation was also damaged by rumours of his friendship with Harriet Arbuthnot.

S1E5 · 1983-03-13 · 55m

The Asquiths

Herbert Henry Asquith's premiership and his fight to reduce the power of the House of Lords.

S1E6 · 1983-03-20 · 55m

Dizzy

Disraeli, the master diplomat and favourite of Queen Victoria, at the age of seventy-three entertains beautiful and aristocratic sisters at Number 10.

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