Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister - The Complete Audio Collection cover art

Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister - The Complete Audio Collection

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for £0.00
£8.99/mo thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Offer ends 31 July 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister - The Complete Audio Collection

By: Antony Jay, Jonathan Lynn
Narrated by: Paul Eddington, full cast, Nigel Hawthorn
Try for £0.00

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July 2025 23:59 GMT. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £16.99

Buy Now for £16.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

For the first time in one audio collection, all 16 Yes Minister radio episodes plus six further TV episodes, 14 Yes Prime Minister episodes and two bonus sketches.

Between 1980 and 1988 on BBC television and radio, the exploits of the Rt Hon Jim Hacker MP (Paul Eddington) - later Prime Minister - kept the British nation enthralled. Helped - and hampered - by his diligent Permanent Secretary Sir Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne) and his Principle Private Secretary Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds), Hacker and his department became synonymous with government bureaucracy and administrative double dealing. Presented here, for the first time in one collection, are the complete radio series of Yes Minister and the complete BBC television soundtracks of Yes Prime Minister. Also included are six TV soundtracks of Yes Minister and two special bonus mini-episodes: "The PM’s Plan", recorded in 1984 with Margaret Thatcher as herself, and a special segment created for "The Funny Side of Christmas" in 1982.

©2014 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd (P)2014 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd Funny Literature & Fiction Witty Feel-Good Thought-Provoking

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Blackadder: The Complete Collected Series cover art
Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation: The Complete Series 1-10 cover art
Rumpole: A BBC Radio Collection cover art
The Good Life: The Complete Collection cover art
Only Fools and Horses cover art
Old Harry’s Game cover art
Absolute Power cover art
Fawlty Towers: The Complete Collection cover art
The Complete George Smiley Radio Dramas cover art
Porridge cover art
Dad's Army cover art
Jeeves & Wooster cover art
To the Manor Born cover art
The Blair Years cover art
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete BBC Collection cover art
Depraved New World cover art
All stars
Most relevant  

Any additional comments?

What can I say about this phenomenal series that hasn't already been said a thousand times before? If (like me) you loved the television series then there's no reason why you won't like these audio versions, since they use the same amazing scripts (adapted for radio) and star the same original cast (indeed even many of the minor characters are played by the same actors). Not only that but they also manage to convey all of the fun and spontaneity that was present in the TV series which lifted it from merely "good" to "truly great". Buy it, you will not be disappointed.

Comedy Gods!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Classic comedy series. Brought back all the memories from 30 years ago. So full of memorable quotes that have become part of the English language.

And thirty years on we're still debating the same things - Some things change, some stay the same:

One: I am not a "badger-butcher".
Two: badgers are not an endangered species.
Three: the removal of protective status does not necessarily mean the badgers will be killed.
Four: if a few badgers have to be sacrificed for the sake of a master plan that will save Britain's natural heritage - tough!
- Episode Six: The Right to Know

Some things change, some stay the same

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Where does Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister - The Complete Audio Collection rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Yes, my husband and I have been laughing out loud as we drive around over the weekends

What did you like best about this story?

Its very funny, quick and so many puns

Fantastic to have in the car

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Brilliant - really easy to listen to - works extremely well as an audio book.

Amazing

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Highly amusing, worrying if true. Sir Humphrey really does seem to have two faces. A battle of words and of words. Well written.

Highly amusing

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Had a proper good laugh listening to this , Has more premonitions than all of the Simpsons episodes put together.
It could have been made yesterday , just brilliant.

Still relevant today

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
It was nice hearing all of the episodes from Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister in one collection. It's even funnier than I remember with great performances from Nigel Hawthorn as Humphrey and Paul Edington as Jim Hacker. Politics really hasn't changed.

A lot of laughs.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Amazing classic comedy that actually works really well on an Audiobook format. Really well written, it's a shame that this style is lost to slapstick.

HEE-LARIOUS

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Would you listen to Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister - The Complete Audio Collection again? Why?

I would and I have, many times. I first downloaded this as to listen before bed in a noisy university halls of residence 2 years ago. Since then I have gone through the collection many times. It's that good. It is as relevant and funny today for me in uni as it was when it was first made.

What does the narrators bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?

Comic timing and characters that really fit the characters they play.

Any additional comments?

If I could only have one 'book' from Audible, it'd be this one.

Outstanding

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Brilliant series back when comedy was not reliant on swearing or racism. Like to listen to again and again

Excellent series

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews