This is the BBC.

These are pretty tough times if you're a remainer.

Every day is a day closer to leaving the EU.

Every day seems to take us closer to the moment when the government is contriving by accidental design

to crash out of the European Union.

Every day seems to be another day when the main opposition party refuses to, well, oppose them.

But perhaps what will hurt most and cheerleaders in equal measure is the news that Mr Brexit,

the shadowy, mysterious Mr Big of the EU referendum,

a man called Dominic Cummings is to be played by none other than Benedict Cumberbatch.

In a drama written for Channel 4 about that referendum by the playwright James Graham,

the man you heard on this podcast a couple of weeks ago.

If you've not listened, I really recommend that you do.

But hold on, even Mr Cummings, who ran vote leave and used to be Michael Gove's closest adviser,

is not terribly impressed with the way Brexit is going or the way the government is handling it.

Is it a shambles this process?

Oh, absolutely not. No.

Not a shambles, even though your friend, colleague, organiser of the leave campaign,

Dominic Cummings has described the whole Brexit process since the referendum as a shambles.

He has a gift for vivid metaphor.

My view being in government is that the Prime Minister has laid out a very, very clear flight path for us,

and that flight path is...

If James Graham was to write another play about politics,

...