Photographing Five Prime Ministers
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
For more than a decade Andrew Parsons was the official Downing Street photographer - chronicling life at No 10 with every prime minister from David Cameron to Rishi Sunak. He talks to Matt about capturing everything from David Cameron pre-emptively writing his resignation letter in 2015, to THAT lock down breaking birthday party in the Cabinet room.
Plus: Columnists India Knight and James Marriott discuss the changing makeup of the modern family, the surprising number of prime ministers who lost a father at an early age, and which is better - the arts or science?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is the Red Box Podcast, I'm Matt Chowley, being the best of my times |
| 0:07.9 | radio show. |
| 0:08.9 | Don't forget you can listen live Monday to Friday, 10 till 1, on your DAB radio, on |
| 0:12.4 | your smart speaker, or download the Times Radio app. |
| 0:15.7 | Coming up on the podcast today, a really fascinating chat with Andrew Parsons, you might |
| 0:20.3 | not know the name, you definitely know his work. |
| 0:23.0 | For more than a decade, he's been the personal photographer for the British Prime Ministers. |
| 0:27.7 | Well, five of them all together, we did it for David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, |
| 0:31.8 | little bit of Liz Chusson, and now, which is soon active. |
| 0:35.2 | So he reveals what it's like being in the room all the time, clicking away on his camera, |
| 0:40.4 | and why did he take a photo of Boris Johnson's birthday party which broke the lockdown rules? |
| 0:45.4 | That's coming up in just a moment, but first there's everyone on Friday, it's time for |
| 0:48.2 | these two. |
| 0:49.2 | The Columnists with Night at the Marriott, India Night and James Marriott. |
| 0:53.8 | I was hunched on my bedroom floor of my laptop, frantically bashing away my column on Times |
| 0:58.6 | Radio. |
| 0:59.6 | And we say hello to India Night, hello India, good morning, nice to have you here, and James |
| 1:06.3 | Marriott's here in the studio. |
| 1:07.3 | How are you James? |
| 1:08.3 | I'm alright. |
| 1:09.3 | How are you? |
| 1:10.3 | Are you sure? |
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