The Politician's Husband
The Politician's Husband
2013
1 Season
6.8
DramaWar & Politics

A drama about the shifting power in a marriage when the personal and political collide.

Episodes

Episode 1
E1Apr 25, 201357m

Episode 1

Aiden and Freya Hoynes are the golden couple of British politics. Aiden resigns from cabinet in a failed leadership bid thwarted by his best friend Bruce Babbish. In the cabinet reshuffle, Freya is appointed tocabinet, whilst Aiden returns to the back benches and a life of political obscurity. Finally out of her husband's shadow, Freya is forced to choose between her own career ambitions and publicly supporting her husband.

Episode 2
E2May 2, 201357m

Episode 2

Driven by a desire to avenge his own downfall, Aiden plots against his old friend Bruce. He is also spending more time at home looking after the children and particularly their Asperger's son, Noah. As he sitson the side-lines watching his wife's meteoric rise, Aiden is increasingly consumed with jealousy and paranoia. Unable to accept his wife's new-found success or forgive her betrayal, Aiden begins to plot Freya's downfall as well as Bruce's.

Episode 3
E3May 9, 201357m

Episode 3

Aiden has to defend himself in an embarrassing sex scandal that threatens to derail any chance of a political comeback and also further threatens his marriage. As he wrestles both back from the brink hediscovers Freya has been less than honest about her whereabouts and the time she is spending with Bruce.

Top Cast

Emily Watson

Emily Watson

Freya Gardner

David Tennant

David Tennant

Aiden Hoynes

Ed Stoppard

Ed Stoppard

Bruce Babbish

Roger Allam

Roger Allam

Marcus Brock

Oscar Kennedy

Oscar Kennedy

Noah Hoynes

Lucy Hutchinson

Lucy Hutchinson

Ruby Hoynes