Hello, I'm Matt Shirley, and this is Politics Without the Boring bits, bringing you some of the best bits from the year that you might have missed. Now, with an election coming, this is going to be particularly handy today's episode. Party political broadcasts have been around for nearly 100 years, featuring everything from men sitting woodenly behind desks to yogit flying.

Do they ever, though, change anyone's vote?

And why are some of them so odd?

Back in January, I spoke to Tory advertising legend Maurice Sarchie

and the Labour filmmaker Mark Lucas to find out.

You're now follows a party political broadcast.

On behalf, a party political broadcast.

Yes, a new year means a new slate of party political broadcast.

Those short films that TV channels have to show

whether there's anyone watching or not.

Designed to give political parties

each a fair crack at the whip

by appealing to viewers at home.

So last week we had Rishi Sunak

surrounded by Union Jack flags and copyright-free music.

The government's priorities are your priorities.

The people's priorities.

And this week, Kirstama apparently being interviewed just off camera by no one.

I grew up in a pebble-dash semi.

I'm sharing a bedroom with my brother, a bunk bed bedroom with my brother.

My dad was a toolmaker and worked in a factory all his life. In fact, party political broadcasts

are almost 100 years old, having first been introduced to the general election of 1924, when

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