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The Prime Ministers, Series 1
This series explores how prime ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time and how they made the job what it is today.
-Sir Robert Walpole; the first and longest-serving prime minister.
-Lord North; remembered as the prime minister who lost America.
-Sir Robert Peel; who put national interest before party.
-Lord Palmerston; who cultivated a cavalier image and dominated mid-Victorian politics.
-Benjamin Disraeli turned his skills as a novelist to politics and became Britain’s first Jewish-born prime minister.
-David Lloyd George, Welsh radical who set up the early welfare state, became a presidential PM in the First World War and split the Liberal party.
-Stanley Baldwin, the first prime minister to master radio broadcasting, his notion of Englishness shaped inter-war Britain.
-Clement Attlee, who lacked any charisma, but created the modern welfare state and managed the big political beasts in his Cabinet.
The BBC’s Nick Robinson presents his fascinating and absorbing Radio 4 series featuring eight famous British prime ministers. This series was first broadcast from 24 February to 14 April 2009.
-Sir Robert Walpole; the first and longest-serving prime minister.
-Lord North; remembered as the prime minister who lost America.
-Sir Robert Peel; who put national interest before party.
-Lord Palmerston; who cultivated a cavalier image and dominated mid-Victorian politics.
-Benjamin Disraeli turned his skills as a novelist to politics and became Britain’s first Jewish-born prime minister.
-David Lloyd George, Welsh radical who set up the early welfare state, became a presidential PM in the First World War and split the Liberal party.
-Stanley Baldwin, the first prime minister to master radio broadcasting, his notion of Englishness shaped inter-war Britain.
-Clement Attlee, who lacked any charisma, but created the modern welfare state and managed the big political beasts in his Cabinet.
The BBC’s Nick Robinson presents his fascinating and absorbing Radio 4 series featuring eight famous British prime ministers. This series was first broadcast from 24 February to 14 April 2009.
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First published January 1, 2011
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Nick Robinson
5 books6 followersNicholas Anthony "Nick" Robinson (born 5 October 1963) is a British journalist and political editor for the BBC. Starting out in broadcasting at Piccadilly Radio, after a year as President of the Conservative Party youth group, he worked his way up as a producer eventually becoming deputy editor of Panorama, before becoming a political correspondent in 1996.
He became the BBC's chief political correspondent in 1999. Between 2002 and 2005 he worked for ITV News as political editor, but then returned to the BBC assuming the same role, which he has held since.
Noted for his confrontational and provocative approach, Robinson has on several occasions caused a stir with his style of questioning, particularly of world leaders such as George W. Bush.
He became the BBC's chief political correspondent in 1999. Between 2002 and 2005 he worked for ITV News as political editor, but then returned to the BBC assuming the same role, which he has held since.
Noted for his confrontational and provocative approach, Robinson has on several occasions caused a stir with his style of questioning, particularly of world leaders such as George W. Bush.
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