( this is now a drama , fiction based on #Partygate / reality may return but the UK story is becoming hard to cope with directly )
Previously I have been thinking about a play based on BBC Papers review. They suggested a drama in response to #Partygate. See clip from radio I put on YouTube.
But I don't think a BBC comedy style works any longer. The situation is more grim. I notice ITV report new facts and have some direction. BBC is not breaking new developments and has a lack of focus on the issues. So I still think the police conversation as chorus is a base for most of the play. Last of The Summer Wines has this but it is also part of the ITV murder detectives set in Oxford or Midsummer. They are agents in the story also but I think they could comment on the Met and the cases based on the same info or lack of info as anyone else.
(Also I have a problem whether to make it all Creative Commons or to hold on to some copyright. One solution is to make the first hour open, and hold back the second hour - or two part show if there is enough of it.)
So first part is set in a country pub somewhere near Oxford. Action happens somewhere else. In May there is an accident from one of the Oxford bridges. A student is dropped headfirst into shallow water. It turns out other students were practicing to be Chief Whip and dangling voters out of a window. This is all written off as an accident. News from London continues. Conversation includes comment on the procedure
The previous summer other students were on placements near Westminster. Tasks included moving documents from civil service to journalists in the late afternoons. A couple of them are victims of hit and run accidents in country lanes. There is some suspicion about this but still regarded as accidents. Meanwhile there is more speculation about the Met procedure. It seems open to influence as the questions were put via legal reources where some stories may have been coordinated. This is all speculation but easy enough at a distance.
The Oxford detectives are interested in a book signing visit by the wallpaper designer who seems to have been at several of the parties but has not revealed any information. Then they disappear. End of part one. The story is getting closer to Oxford so more changes of scene will be required in part two. Also in part two there are echoes of Brexit. There is a dark secret from the past that links some of the characters together.
