When a number of distinguished members of government committees are found dead in suspicious circumstances, it falls to DCI Kate Duncan of Scotland Yard's Sensitive Cases Squad to discover what the connecting factor is. Mark Lawson's deftly plotted murder-mystery gets to grips with a major concern at the heart of our cash-strapped NHS: the post code lottery and exactly who is to be considered deserving of the most expensive life saving drugs on the market. Kate Duncan- Haydn Gwynne Lorenzo- Lloyd Thomas Briggs- Chris McHallem Hermione Sharp - Abigail McKern Dame Imelda Sharp- Honor Blackman Sue Wells- Abigail McGibbon Dr Tom Cready- Nick Dunning Dee Mortimer- Stella McCusker Jeremy Vine- Himself Written by Mark Lawson. The Power of Life and Death was directed in Belfast by Eoin O'Callaghan.