Last December's "Cheriegate" affair did little to abate the rampant public cynicism reserved for politicians - a mistrust evidenced in the turnout at the 2001 general election, which was the lowest for more than 80 years. In this documentary, Michael Cockerell talks to figures including Edwina Currie, Max Clifford, Geoffrey Robinson and Neil Hamilton in an effort to see if spin, sleaze and ministerial failure is to blame, or whether the media's sneering political coverage is most at fault.

Michael Cockerell
Self - Narrator
Mohamed Al-Fayed
Self

Peter Bazalgette
Self
Tim Bell
Self

Tony Benn
Self

Cherie Blair
Self (archive footage)

Tony Blair
Self (archive footage)

Ken Clarke
Self

Edwina Currie
Self
The Making of Star Wars70%
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside77%
And the Oscar Goes To...68%
Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars63%
4 Little Girls72%
Directed by John Ford70%
The Class of ‘9271%
A Plastic Ocean75%
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me85%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition86%
Seven Up!71%
Bad 2572%
McQueen74%
Above Majestic73%
Public Speaking70%
Room 23761%
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends71%
The Carter Effect70%