Gimson’s PMs: Thatcher to Johnson
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Red Box is brought to you in association with SSE, |
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| 1:06.9 | Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Charlie. Now, this year marks 300 years since Britain |
| 1:13.8 | got its first Prime Minister in the shape of Robert Warpole. On my time as radio show, |
| 1:18.4 | we've done a different Prime Minister every week with Andrew Gymson, who's got this brilliant |
| 1:22.7 | book of Gymsons Prime Minister's brief lives from Warpole to Johnson. So, what we thought we do, |
| 1:27.0 | doing them all would take you weeks to listen through to them all, but what we thought we'd do is |
| 1:30.6 | take a look back on the Prime Minister's from thatcher to Johnson. So, we kick off then with the |
| 1:36.4 | iron lady, it's Andrew Gymson discussing Margaret Fatcher. |
| 1:50.7 | Margaret Fatcher, where to begin, such an extraordinarily influential Prime Minister, |
| 1:57.1 | but still even now incredibly controversial and divisive, what more than 40 years after she |
| 2:03.9 | entered number 10? I think she inspired greater extremes of adoration and loathing than any other |
| 2:09.5 | Prime Minister in modern times. And she imposed her personality more deeply on the country than |
| 2:15.2 | any leader since Churchill. Nigel Lawson said the key to understanding Mrs Thatcher was that she |
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