The Secret World of Whitehall DVDrip

*The Secret World of Whitehall DVDrip*
English | Avi | Xvid | 624x352 | 25fps | 998kbps | Mp3 133kbps 48000hz
| 1.73Gb Michael Cockerell's three part series, The Secret World of
Whitehall is a must see, if only because it is like a TWMFL course
(Teaching Whitehall Mandarin as a Foreign Language). It is not just
that Senior Civil Servants are, on the face of it Civil but not
necessarily Servile during their tenure. It is the case that they
appear to remain so long after they have gone. But like all natural
diplomats, they have a way of understatement or simply a well timed
silence, to import a fairly readable meaning.The programme gives us a
picture of the quite different ways in which Whitehall is allowed to
operate with a Prime Minister and his advisors, but there are certain
non-negotiables. The first is the first hour's briefing with the
Cabinet Secretary on national security. One of the first duties, we
learn, is that every incoming PM must provide handwritten instructions
to the Captains of our Nuclear Submarines, who presumably will only
open them in the event of the destruction of the British Government
due to all out war. We don't get the details of course, but we do get
a peek at COBRA, the situation room that becomes the hub of activity
in a crisis.