Here is a detailed list of characters in Shades of Green, including minor characters:
1. Green Earth Movement (GEM)
Don Mason – Charismatic Founder of the Green Earth Movement, and Britain’s first Green Prime Minister
Dave Barrington – Leading GEM activist and Minister for Climate Change
Jessica Olsen Barrington – Leading GEM activist. Married to Dave Barrington, daughter of top civil servant Sir James Olsen
Malcolm Morton – Former army captain, GEM activist who becomes Home Secretary and heads up security
Sarah Turner – Leading GEM activist and Chancellor of the Exchequer
Louise Adams – Sarah Turner’s economics adviser
Danny Malik – Television director, later Minister for Culture
Juliet Coe – GEM ‘sleeper’ who heads up the purges of the media. Also close to the Animalists
Annie Lee – Scientist and GEM ‘sleeper’
Doug Cunningham – GEM sleeper who comes to head up the Earth Councils and National Convention
2. The “Kitson Circle”
Peter Kitson – Liberal Environment spokesman who plays a key role in the Green Revolution. Becomes Minister for Energy
Heather Kitson – Married to Peter Kitson. Mother of baby Andrea
Joanna Kitson – Human Rights lawyer. Sister of Peter Kitson
Terry Cairns – Liberal Finance spokesman and deputy party leader. Mentor of Peter Kitson
Sandy Honeyford – Political coordinator for the Liberals and the Green Earth Coalition
Martin Lang – Ambitious lawyer who becomes head of the Scrutiny Commission for the legal system (ESCOLAW)
Howard Blackstone – Liberal party leader. Becomes Foreign Secretary.
3. Animalists
Titus Whitaker – Academic philosopher and the ‘guru’ of the Animal Rights movement
Gabriella Pearson – Formidable campaigner and activist for Animal Rights
Tara Collingworth – Radical theorist for a rebalanced world
4. In his own category
King Henry IX – King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. A passionate advocate of environmental action
5. Other Greens
Ben Porter – Leader of the mainstream Green party. Both rival of and collaborator with Don Mason
Carl Fullerton – ‘Deep Green’ activist and Animal Rights guerilla who comes to lead the Green Militia
Perry Jones – Principal Investigator with ESCOSAFE and the Green Militia
6. The ‘Greys’
Patrick Baxter – Prime Minister before the Green Revolution and leader of the Conservative party
Sir James Olsen – Leading civil servant, and later leading opponent of the GEM regime. Father of Jessica Barrington
Lady Francis Olsen – Formidable wife of Sir James
President Johnson Wilding – President of the USA
Zara Alderney – US Secretary of State
Sam Sharma – Market trader interned in the eco-camps
Evan Roberts – Liberal party strategist, opposed to Peter Kitson’s influence
Dennis Leadbetter – Leader of the Labour Party
General Mark Matthews – Leader of the counter-revolutionary tendency in the military
George Cavanagh – Anti-terrorist officer
7. Media
Trevor MacLean – Flamboyant BBC News reporter
Stella Walton – Researcher working with Trevor MacLean
Miles Campbell – Director-General of the BBC
Michaela Cavaliero – Head of News at the BBC
Craig Delaney – Head of the BBC Green Team, and later Director-General
Dony Patterson – IT expert working with Trevor MacLean
8. Others
Rachel Dean – Close firend of Heather Kitson. Academic historian at a London University college.
Mark Dean – Married to Rachel. Entrepreneur running a high tech company
Mohammed Iqbal – High profile detainee in one of Joanna Kitson’s human rights cases
Colonel Demont Ashton – US military liaison officer ofr the ‘counter-revolutionary’ forces
Colonel Palmer – American officer leading part of the counter-revolutionary forces