A story concerns a residents of Pimlico in post-war London. Ensuing the explosion of the bomb odd from either the 2nd Globe War, a inhumed cellar is encountered, where art, coins, jewelry & a ancient parchment come found. A document is examined by Professor Hatten-Jones (Margaret Rutherford) who claims that it proves Pimlico, the little front yard around London, to become independent from either Britain. These are as a matter of fact a portion of the ancient Dukedom of Burgundy, granted to the last Duke many hundred years ago. The Frenchman comes forward, stating that he is heir to the Dukedom, hanker thought to exist as out, & to claim his rights. (Comparing to historical reality, whenever that endure Duke of Burgundy is designed to become Charles the Bold (1433-1477), then a heir general is encountered around realistic among a Bourbons of Italy. Inside 1948, a heir was Joseph, Duke of Parma (1875-1950), an incapable secluded in Pianore, regented & succeeded by his brother Elias, Duke of Parma (1880-1959) from Austria - so a latter's boy Robert II (1909-74) world health organization lived mostly around Vienna, Austria. Presently, when another childless heirs, a inheritress is his sister Alice, Duchess of Calabria, b 1917, who sleep in Spain.)

Pimlico declares independence and becomes the micronation. the residents of the front yard form a government, headed per Duke, the local bank manager & a shop-creator Mr Pemberton (Stanley Holloway). A negotiate by owning a British government, world health organization require a children super seriously, however faced by using starvation & bankruptcy, the sooner or later agree to rejoin Britain.

Margaret Rutherford, Stanley Holloway and Hermione Baddeley star under Henry Cornelius's direction.

A script is by T.E.B. Clarke and demonstrates his usual logical development of absurd ideas. Filmed at just about a period of the Berlin Blockade, some scenes in which a residents of a newly united states come refused passage away from their territory into Londin per authorities, & rely on a diapers thrown all over the dividing wall by easily-sympathizer, were super topical at the period.

The BBC Radio 4 adaptation was broadcast on January 20, 1996.

a comparison may be mass produced by having the out break of Seborga, an equally fictional breathe, coextensive by using the village inside Italy.

See Also
Hutt River Province - a self declared independent microstate