AuthorNick Robinson
NarratorSimon Shepherd
Duration15h 22m
CategoriesAdult Non-Fiction, Politics
PublisherRandom House
VersionUnabridged
The relationship between those who wield power and those whose job it is to tell us what they are doing has always been fraught with tension. Politicians now expect to be on camera and facing aggressive questions from the moment they open their front door to the moment they return home at night. Everything they say and do is instantly broadcast and dissected on 24-hour news channels, blogs and Twitter. It was not always this way. Live from Downing Street takes us on an absorbing journey through the hard-fought battles for the right to tell the public about the decisions taken on their behalf. Parliament once imprisoned those who dared to report what MPs had said. Broadcasters used to be banned by law from debating anything newsworthy and even from covering elections. Since that censorship ended, the two sides have clashed repeatedly. Nick Robinson provides a colourful and personal examination of what life is like as the BBC's Political Editor - a role described in a report for the White House as 'the most important job in British political journalism'.
The Prime Minister's, Series 1: Episode 2
Author: Nick Robinson
Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 2
Duration 13m
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that 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. This episode features Lord North, who is remembered as the prime minister who lost America.
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The Prime Ministers, Series 1, Episode 3
Author: Nick Robinson
Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 3
Duration 13m
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that 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. This episode features Sir Robert Peel, who put national interest before party.
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The Prime Ministers, Series 1, Episode 1
Author: Nick Robinson
Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 1
Duration 13m
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that 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. This episode features Sir Robert Walpole, the first and longest-serving prime minister.
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The Prime Ministers, Series 1, Episode 7
Author: Nick Robinson
Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 7
Duration 13m
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that 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. This episode features Stanley Baldwin, the first prime minister to master radio broadcasting, and how his notion of Englishness sha...
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The Prime Ministers, Series 1, Episode 4
Author: Nick Robinson
Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 4
Duration 13m
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that 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. This episode features Lord Palmerston, who cultivated a cavalier image and dominated mid-Victorian politics.
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Author: Nick Robinson
Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
Duration 1h 51m
The BBC's Nick Robinson continues his fascinating and absorbing Radio 4 series featuring eight famous British Prime Ministers. This series explores how Prime Ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time. William Pitt the Younger, who became Prime Minister aged only 24 and held the post for almost 19 years in t...
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The Prime Ministers, Series 1, Episode 5
Author: Nick Robinson
Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 5
Duration 13m
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that 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. This episode features Benjamin Disraeli, who turned his skills as a novelist to politics and became Britain's first Jewish-born pri...
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Author: Nick Robinson
Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
Duration 1h 52m
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. The prime ministers covered include: 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...
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The Prime Ministers, Series 1, Episode 6
Author: Nick Robinson
Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 6
Duration 13m
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that 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. This episode features David Lloyd George, Welsh radical who set up the early welfare state, became a presidential PM in the First W...
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The Prime Ministers, Series 1, Episode 8
Author: Nick Robinson
Author Nick Robinson
Narrator Nick Robinson
SeriesThe Prime Ministers Series 1, Book 8
Duration 13m
From the BBC Radio 4 series presented and written by Nick Robinson that 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. This episode features Clement Attlee, who lacked any charisma, but created the modern welfare state and managed the big political b...
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