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Audiobooks & Video Training BBC: House of Cards Trilogy. Series 2: To Play the King (1993)

Posted on 2010-08-03

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Urquhart, the Machiavellian party hack who schemed his way to the prime ministry in the 1990 mini-series House of Cards, is now ensconced in power but facing an unexpected challenge from the newly crowned King of England. The politically naive but idealistic monarch (modeled loosely on Prince Charles) has taken to delivering feisty, compassionate speeches about the poor and staging canny photo ops in the ghetto -- a campaign that is starting to turn the nation against Urquhart's cold-blooded Conservative policies. To the PM, His Royal Majesty is nothing but a royal pain. "The trouble is, he has ideas," he tells an aide, words dripping with scorn. "He has a conscience. He wants to contribute." Surrounding this clash between King and commoner is a whirl of political intrigue. There's a Fergie-like princess with a potentially explosive diary, a royal aide hiding a homosexual affair and assorted political tricksters, both dirty and deadly. Like its predecessor, To Play the King is a wonderfully savvy, supremely cynical picture of real-world politics that makes American efforts in the same vein (JFK: Reckless Youth) look like Saturday-morning cartoons. Michael Kitchen, as the King, is starchy yet appealingly human; in its fictional way, To Play the King does more to demystify the British monarchy than any Daily Mail photos of Princess Di in the exercise gym. The face-to-face confrontations between King and Prime Minister are epic battles of wills and words worthy of George Bernard Shaw. Yet Urquhart's monstrousness ! has taken on almost Shakespearean proportions; the murder that ended Part I continues to haunt him like Banquo's ghost. With the key creative people from House of Cards returning (writer Andrew Davies, director Paul Seed), To Play the King is a rare sequel that advances rather than diminishes the original. But it doesn't entirely escape redundancy. Urquhart hires a pretty young political operative (Kitty Aldridge) who is seduced by his power just as investigative reporter Mattie Storin was in House of Cards. Urquhart's asides to the camera, charming in the first part, become somewhat precious and predictable by the end of the second. But Richardson remains a marvel; we feast on a face that reveals everything with the arch of an eyebrow or the sag of a cheek muscle. His calculated temper tantrums are as believable as the silky menace in his most understated lines ("I couldn't possibly comment"). This is TV's scariest, most alluring villain since J.R. Ewing.

Director: Paul Seed

Writers: Michael Dobbs (novel), Andrew Davies (adaptation)

Ian Richardson... Francis Urquhart

Michael Kitchen... The King

Kitty Aldridge... Sarah Harding

Colin Jeavons... Tim Stamper

Diane Fletcher... Elizabeth Urquhart

Erika Hoffman... The Lady

Tom Beasley... Young Prince

Leonard Preston... John Stroud

Rowena King... Chloe Carmichael

Nicholas Farrell... David Mycroft

Michael Howarth... Dick Caule

Merelina Kendall... Hilda Cordwainer

Barry Linehan... Henry Hotson

Nick Brimble... Corder

Bernice Stegers... Princess Charlotte

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A new king, a new age...et cetera.

This King has unsettling ideas of his own.

After the first meeting with the King.

Urquhart with Buckingham Palace Press Secretary David Mycroft and Chloe Carmichael, his assistant.

Sarah Harding is selected to be Urquhart's new 'slave'.

Stamper meets Princess Charlotte to set up the royal insurance policy.

Urquhart announces his decision to call a general election.

The King and Urquhart's political opponents reach a consensus.

After listening to his plausible story about Mattie Storin's death, Sarah offers herself to Urquhart.

The King's television address to the nation.

An anonymous caller prompts Sarah to investigate Urquhart's rise to power.

John Krajewski tells Sarah some frightening things about the PM.

The Urquharts agree on a safety plan.

A Tory victory confirms Urquhart as Prime Minister.

King checked. End of game.

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