The Making Of A Political Documentary
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Michael Cockerell is one of the UK’s most experienced political film-makers, and has interviewed prime ministers from Macmillan to Johnson. He joins Ed Vaizey to reflect on his career and the art of making a political documentary.
Plus: Columnists Libby Purves and Robin Brant discuss Keir Starmer's call for a decade of national renewal, whether Labour will change the way it elects its leader, and a new book assessing Liz Truss's (short) time in office.
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| 0:00.0 | From jet engines to space rockets, telephones to computers, the world has seen spectacular change in the last hundred years |
| 0:08.0 | and the pace of progress is getting faster and faster. |
| 0:12.0 | From electric cars to the Metiverse, drone deliveries to climate solutions |
| 0:16.0 | and genetic sequencing. We are investing in the companies that are not just changing the world |
| 0:20.4 | today, but are also shaping the future. the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust managed by Bailey Gifford |
| 0:27.3 | Invest in Progress, Capital at Risk. |
| 0:30.1 | BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind, |
| 0:36.3 | and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. |
| 0:39.6 | It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. |
| 0:43.8 | Well today we're mostly in oil and gas. |
| 0:46.3 | We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon |
| 0:50.4 | and other transition businesses from around 3% in 2019 to around 23% in |
| 0:56.1 | 2023. VP.com slash and not all. Hello and welcome to the Politics Without the Boring Boring Bits Podcast with me Ed Vezie. |
| 1:11.0 | We've got a bank holiday treat for you today. I've been speaking to the |
| 1:14.8 | legendary political documentary maker Michael Cockrell. He's interviewed eight |
| 1:18.6 | Prime Ministers. His films about Westminster have been compulsory viewing for |
| 1:22.1 | anyone interested in how politics and |
| 1:24.3 | politicians really work. |
| 1:26.3 | First though, it's time for this. The Columnists. |
| 1:32.8 | So I'm joined now by the Times Columnist Libby Purvis. |
| 1:39.6 | Welcome to the show Libby. |
| 1:41.8 | Morning. And Robin Brandt, who used to be the BBC political |
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