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Commissioned by BBC4. The True story of the American journalist who nearly brought down the British government in 2009.

Heather Brooke, an American living in London, was writing a book about the Freedom of Information Act.  In 2004, she approached the House of Commons about MP’s expenses, and found her legitimate requests blocked repeatedly. This entertaining drama follows one dogged and spirited individual over the most powerful institution in the country. In all the scandal of the MP’s expenses, one story remains to be told and it is the best of them all: because there would have been no documents leaked to one of the leading UK newspapers, The Daily Telegraph – indeed no documents of any kind at all – had not one supremely determined journalist fought for five long years against the increasingly desperate attempts by the House of Commons to keep their expenditure secret.  

Starring Brian Cox (‘Day of the Triffids’, ‘Birdsong’, ‘Troy’, ‘Braveheart’) and Anna Maxwell Martin (‘Bleak House' BAFTA Winner , ‘The Wind in the Willows’) and Poppy Shakespeare (BAFTA Winner), On Expenses is due for transmission in Spring 2010 to coincide with the UK’s general election.

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