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Politics Unpacked

SUNDAY SHOWS AT 50 Part 2: Frost

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Matt Chorley charts the rise and fall of the Sunday political TV shows with Sunday Shows at 50. Last week, we looked at the birth of Weekend World and this week, we look at how David Frost dominated the Sunday shows for over a decade. Interviewees including his son Wilfred Frost, his editor Barney Jones, Trevor Phillips, Peter Mandelson, Chris Evans, politicians including Neil Kinnock, Tony Blair, and William Hague, and prominent journalists Jeremy Vine and John Humphrys.

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Hello, this is the Red Box Podcast.

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I'm Matt Shirley.

0:34.8

Thank you for all your lovely texts and tweets and emails about last week's first part of

0:41.1

our new documentary series, The Sunday Shows at 50.

0:44.9

Last week in part one, we looked at the birth of weekend world in 1972,

0:49.1

half a century ago.

0:50.9

Now it's time to take a look at how David Foss came to dominate Sunday mornings for two decades.

0:57.7

This is part two.

0:59.3

The Sunday Shows at 50.

1:06.8

2022 marks 50 years since the launch of weekend world,

1:10.9

the flagship Sunday political program, which paved the way for everyone that followed.

1:16.0

It kick-started a broadcasting arms race, which meant that what happened on the Sunday sofa

1:20.9

became more important than what happened in the houses of Parliament.

1:23.8

This is the story of how political and journalistic careers were made and broken,

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