Rivals

CHARACTERS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

JOHNNY ABRAHAMS

Head of News and Current Affairs, BBC.

GEORGIE BAINES

Sales Director, Corinium Television.

LADY BARNSLEY

A member of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), late of the White Fish Authority.

BIRGITTA

A comely but bolshie nanny working for the Verekers.

HARDY BISSETT

A franchise expert. Late of the IBA.

MR AND MRS BODKIN

Rupert Campbell-Black’s couple.

SIR CEDRIC

BONNINGTON

Chairman of Mid-West Television.

HUBERT BRENTON

Bishop of Cotchester.

ANTHONY, SECOND

BARON BADDINGHAM

Chairman and Managing Director, Corinium Television.

MONICA BADDINGHAM

His wife.

ARCHIE BADDINGHAM

His elder son.

BASIL BADDINGHAM

Tony’s illegitimate brother, ace polo player, and owner of the Bar Sinister in Cotchester High Street.

SEBASTIAN BURROWS

A news reporter, Corinium Television.

DAYSEE BUTLER

A very beautiful, stupid PA, Corinium Television.

RUPERT

CAMPBELL-BLACK

Minister for Sport. Tory MP for Chalford and Bisley. Ex-member of the British show-jumping team.

MARCUS

CAMPBELL-BLACK

His son.

TABITHA

CAMPBELL-BLACK

His daughter.

CAMERON COOK

Producer/Director, NBS, New York. Later Head of Drama, Corinium Television.

CHARLES CRAWFORD

Retiring Chairman of the IBA.

JUDGE DAVEY

A member of the IBA.

OWEN DAVIES

Leader of the Opposition.

WESLEY EMERSON

Gloucester and England bowler.

SUZY ERIKSON

An American ex-girlfriend of Rupert Campbell-Black.

LADY EVESHAM

An early feminist, and non-executive Director, Corinium Television.

CHARLES FAIRBURN

Head of Religious Broadcasting, Corinium Television.

JOHNNY

FRIEDLANDER

American actor and megastar.

MARTI GLUCKSTEIN

A brilliant East End accountant.

MALISE GORDON

Ex-

chef d’équipe

of the British show-jumping team.

HELEN GORDON

His wife. Ex-wife of Rupert Campbell-Black and mother of Marcus and Tabitha.

LADY GOSLING

Chairman of the IBA.

GRACE

Declan O’Hara’s housekeeper.

CRISPIN GRAYSTOCK

Professor of English at Cotchester University and a disgusting lecher.

HENRY HAMPSHIRE

Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire-a much less disgusting lecher.

SIMON HARRIS

Controller of Programmes, Corinium Television.

GEORGINA HARRISON

An undergraduate.

RONNIE HAVEGAL

Head of Co-Productions, NBS, New York.

HAZEL

A BBC make-up girl.

RALPHIE HENRIQUES

An undergraduate at Trinity Dublin.

IVOR HICKS

Corporate Development Controller, Corinium Television.

JILLY

Yet another Vereker nanny, but for once a dependable boot.

BEATTIE JOHNSON

Fleet Street columnist, ghosting Rupert Campbell-Black’s memoirs.

GINGER JOHNSON

Financial Director, Corinium Television. No relation to Beattie.

FREDDIE JONES

A multi-millionaire in electronics.

VALERIE JONES

His wife, a nightmare.

SHARON JONES

His overweight daughter.

DEIRDRE KILPATRICK

A researcher at Corinium Television.

LAVINIA

Patrick O’Hara’s girlfriend.

BILLY LLOYD-FOXE

Sports Presenter, BBC.

JANEY LLOYD-FOXE

An author and national newspaper columnist.

DERMOT MACBRIDE

A playwright and Angry Not-So-Young man.

JOYCE MADDEN

Lord Baddingham’s secretary, Corinium Television.

MRS MAKEPIECE

A ‘treasure’ who cleans for Valerie Jones and Lizzie Vereker.

KEVIN MAKEPIECE

Her son.

TRACEY MAKEPIECE

Her daughter.

SALLY MAPLES

Head of Children’s Programmes, Yorkshire Television.

MIKE MEADOWS

Head of Sport, Corinium Television.

MRS MENZIES-SCOTT

Ex-head of the Women’s Institute, a member of the IBA.

GERALD MIDDLETON

Parliamentary Private Secretary to Rupert Campbell-Black.

DECLAN O’HARA

A television megastar.

MAUD O’HARA

His ex-actress wife.

PATRICK O’HARA

His son, an undergraduate at Trinity Dublin.

AGATHA (TAGGIE)

O’HARA

His elder daughter.

CAITLIN O’HARA

His younger daughter.

ORTRUD

Yet another of the Verekers’ comely nannies.

CYRIL PEACOCK

Lord Baddingham’s PA and sometime Press Officer, Corinium Television.

THE VERY REVEREND

FERGUS PENNEY

An ex-Prebendary of the Church of England, and a member of the IBA.

PERCY

Lord Baddingham’s chauffeur.

PASCOE RAWLINGS

The most powerful theatrical agent in London.

BARTON SINCLAIR

Director of

The Merry Widow.

SKIP

A beautiful American lawyer.

LORD SMITH

An ex-Secretary of the TGWU.

DAME ENID SPINK

A distinguished composer and Professor of Music at Cotchester University.

PAUL STRATTON

Tory MP for Cotchester. An ex-Cabinet Minister.

SARAH STRATTON

His ravishing second wife and ex-secretary.

SYDNEY

Rupert’s driver.

URSULA

Declan O’Hara’s secretary.

JAMES VEREKER

Anchorman of ‘Cotswold Round-Up’, Corinium Television.

LIZZIE VEREKER

His wife, a novelist.

ELEANOR VEREKER

His daughter.

SEBASTIAN VEREKER

His son.

HAROLD WHITE

Director of Programmes, London Weekend Television.

MAURICE WOOTON

A bent Gloucestershire property millionaire.