300 years of British Prime Ministers: Part 3

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.7 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In the third episode of our series chronicling the history of British Prime Ministers we travel from one of the Most famous occupants of the office, Winston Churchill, right through to the current incumbent Boris Johnson and everyone in-between. For that Dan is joined by Iain Dale a well known broadcaster, podcaster, author and editor of the recent book The Prime Ministers. They discuss, amongst other things, the Second World War, the creation of the NHS, the, economic reforms of the 1980's, Brexit and how the office of Prime Minister has changed through the second half of the twentieth century to today.

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0:00.0	Tom Hanks is Otto. He's seen it all.
0:02.6	Otto?
0:03.3	Otto?
0:04.0	O-T-T-O.
0:05.2	You don't hear that name very often, I do.
0:07.4	He's a man who gets easily annoyed.
0:09.3	What are you doing?
0:10.2	Parallel parking. Parallel the Wattee.
0:12.4	Has had enough.
0:13.4	Are you always his unfriendly?
0:15.4	I am not unfriendly.
0:16.6	Okay, you're like a warm cuddle.
0:18.2	But he's finding his joy again in the most unlikely place.
0:21.4	I'm not sure about this.
0:23.6	He's gonna be very fun.
0:24.8	A man called Otto, only in cinemas now.
0:33.1	Now everybody welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit.
0:37.1	For the last three Sundays,
0:39.2	we've been running our big series on the history of Prime Ministers
0:42.7	on the 300th anniversary of Robert Warpowl becoming
0:46.1	pretty much acknowledged first Prime Minister of Britain.
0:49.4	There's been some rogues, there's been some geniuses,
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