What is Roadkill about?

Peter Laurence is a “naturally gifted” Conservative minister with “a mix of charm, intelligence, charisma and high humour”. He is also very self-interested. When he is hit by a series of public revelations about his private life and his work as a minister, Peter is untroubled by guilt as he attempts to out-run his enemies and his past, with his eyes on the ultimate political prize.

Set in a fictional world, writer David Hare insists none of the characters in Roadkill are based on real people. “Mine is a parallel world to the real one, and there is no secret passage between the two,” he said in a press statement. “You will be wasting your time if you think that the purpose of the series is to work out who everyone is ‘meant to be’. In Roadkill, neither Covid nor Brexit consume every politician’s waking hour.”

Roadkill: take a look at the BBC’s next big timely political drama