2022 marks 50 years since the launch of Weekend World. The flagship Sunday political program,

which paved the way for everyone that followed. It kick-started a broadcasting arms race,

which meant that often what happened on the Sunday sofa was more important than what

happened in the House's apartment. This is the story of how political and

journeyster careers were made and broken, even how elections were won and lost. Last week,

we looked at the explosion of Sunday shows in the early northeast. This week, it's 2005,

and after more than a decade of breakfast with Frost, it's time to spend Sunday mornings

with Andrew Ma. Hello, I'm good afternoon. Good morning. Hello and welcome. Good morning.

I'd always been very, very clear that I couldn't do TV. I don't accept that at all.

You're a nasty piece of work, aren't you? There are times when Boris Johnson is

impossible to interview. Well, I'm going to tell you what I'm going to cover. I take a quiet

pride in the number of others on the morning programs we've seen off.

In 2005, Tony Blair became the longest-serving Labour Prime Minister and then won his third

election landslide. David Cameron was shadow education secretary. Nick Craig had only just

become an MP. Boris Johnson was on the bat benches after being sacked for lying about his

love life. The banks were still splashing the cheap cash. Britain was still in the EU.

And nobody had heard of coronavirus. But what was about to happen to British politics

is best summed up by the biggest hit of the year.

But maybe I'm crazy, maybe you're crazy, maybe you're crazy, maybe you're crazy, probably.

For the David Frost, the global superstar who broke record through his trips on Concord

and it interviewed Nixon. His time at the BBC was coming to an end.

Top of the morning. Good morning.

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