Five Days in May is a radio play by Matthew Solon. It was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 06 November 2010, as an installment of the Saturday Play. The duration is 60 minutes[1].
The play was nominated for the 2011 BBC Audio Drama Awards in the category of Best Adaptation.
Plot[]
Dramatization of the tense negotiations following Britain's 2010 elections.
Cast[]
- David Cameron - Samuel West
- Nick Clegg - Nicholas Boulton
- Gordon Brown - Gerard Kelly
- Peter Mandleson - Henry Goodman
- Ed Balls - John Sessions
- William Hague - Philip Jackson
- Danny Alexander - Emun Elliot
- David Laws - Anthony Calf
- Chris Huhne - Rupert Frazer
- George Osborne - Ian Hughes
with
- Charlotte Longfield
- Wilf Gilmour
Directed by John Dryden
Critical Reception[]
"...brilliantly done...a fascinating behind-the-scenes fiction, and one that enjoyably took you back to that curious, extraordinary political moment of limbo and then coalition." - Elizabeth Mahoney, The Guardian[2]