Perhaps it was because I watched it during the first week of lockdown, but I have a particular attachment to this BBC documentary on House of Lords reform, first aired in February 2000. It is a Michael Cockerell production, so you know it will be good, but it is even better than that.
It nominally follows Baroness Jay in her quest to kick the hereditaries out of the upper chamber. But it's really about the exercise of power, and the political judgement to know when to plough on and when to compromise. There are also some desperately funny moments which, sadly for William Hague, come mostly at his expense.
