Oscar-winning professional Jim Broadbent famous actors as ‘mad’ Ruler George III in the title role of this version of Alan Bennett’s award-winning play, which co-stars Cheryl Campbell, Nicholas Farrell and Alun Armstrong. The King is dropping his mind. Doctors are brought in as his eccentric behavior becomes more bizarre and erratic, while his child, the Prince Regent, waits – and plots. Merging Jim Broadbent’s ‘heartbreaking portrayal from the batty old monarch’ (Observer) with Alan Bennett’s trademark dark humour this full-cast episode was first noticed for the BBC’s World Assistance. The Madness of George III was filmed as the Oscar-winning The Madness of Ruler George, starring Nigel Hawthorne and Helen Mirren.