The Prime Ministers - series 1 (BBC Radio 4 Documentary)

The Prime Ministers - Series 1 Nick Robinson presents a series exploring 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. Episode 1: Sir Robert Walpole, the first and longest-serving prime minister. Episode 2: Lord North, remembered as the prime minister who lost America. Episode 3: Sir Robert Peel, who put national interest before party interest. Episode 4: Lord Palmerston, notorious womaniser, who cultivated a cavalier image and dominated mid-Victorian politics. Episode 5: Benjamin Disraeli turned his skills as a novelist to politics and became Britain's first Jewish-born prime minister. Episode 6: 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. Episode 7: Stanley Baldwin, the first prime minister to master radio broadcasting, his notion of Englishness shaped inter-war Britain. Episode 8: Clement Attlee, who lacked any charisma, but created modern welfare state and managed the big political beasts in his Cabinet.

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