YesMinister audio oldtimeradio radioprograms English old time radio. Yes Minister stars Paul Eddington as Jim Hacker and Nigel Hawthorn as Sir Humphrey Appleby, with Derek Fowldes as Bernard Woolley. This is a BBC situation comedy from the 1980s, written by Anthony Jay and Jonathan Lynn. The comedy derives from the characters and situation, the situation being the public and private life of a British politician. The three principal characters are Jim Hacker MP, who recently has become the Minister for Administrative Affairs, a (fictional) post in the British Government; his chief antagonist, Sir Humphrey, a senior civil servant who is head of the Government Department for which Hacker is now responsible; and Bernard Woolley, a junior civil servant who is in charge of the day-to-day running of the Minister's office in the Department, who has a conflict of loyalties whenever (as is usually the case) Hacker and Sir Humphrey are at odds over some point of Government policy. The comedy derives mainly from the shortcomings of the central character, Jim Hacker: his vanity, pomposity and cowardliness; all of which Sir Humphrey plays on to manipulate Hacker into doing what he wants him to do. The files listed in the column VBR MP3 are not in fact variable bit rate files. This is a column for files which do not fall into any of the Archive's standard bitrate categories. All of these on this page are 80 Kbps at a sample rate of 48 kHz. Old Time Radio; OTR; Comedy; Yes Minister 2008-05-27 02:49:56 2008-05-27 02:48:35 otr_man@hotmail.com Ed 999 Ed 999 twainbough Ed 999 Ed 999 Ed 999 2008-05-27 03:01:54 2008-05-27 05:08:35 2008-06-02 18:31:04 2009-01-08 18:57:33 2009-01-08 19:16:06 2009-01-08 22:02:59 2009-01-10 04:05:43 Ed 999