The Other Black Door
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BBC
4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Jack Fenwick explores how the think tanks and pressure groups behind the black door of an anonymous building in Westminster have shaped the last decade of British politics - and asks how they might shape the next few years.
For this programme Jack has spoken to more than 50 current and former government insiders about how the organisations based at 55 Tufton Street have influenced British public life. He reveals how organisations including the Taxpayers Alliance, Brexit Central and the Global Warming Policy Foundation helped set the narrative on issues such as austerity, Brexit and climate change. He tracks how some of their ideas become government policy, explores the issue of whether the rules governing these organisations need to change and, with a new Prime Minister in Number 10, he asks how the ideas developed behind one black door might influence policy behind the most famous black door in Britain.
Producer and presenter: Jack Fenwick Assistant producer: Maddy Trimmer.
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| 0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
| 0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
| 0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
| 0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
| 0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
| 0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
| 0:28.5 | Escape from the maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.0 | BBC Sounds. |
| 0:36.0 | BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
| 0:39.0 | Hi there, you're listening to seriously from BBC Radio 4, and I'm your host Vanessa Casuile. |
| 0:47.0 | This podcast finds the world's best audio documentaries and puts them all in one place. You've never heard anything quite like this. |
| 0:57.0 | Downing Street in early September and Liz Truss is about to step through that famous |
| 1:06.0 | black door for the first time as Prime Minister. |
| 1:10.9 | Good afternoon. I have just accepted Her Majesty the Queen's kind invitation to form a new government. |
| 1:20.0 | But I'm interested in another black door less than a mile away. |
| 1:24.0 | For this program I've spoken to more than 50 current and former Westminster insiders. |
| 1:29.0 | Together, they tell a story of how the organizations behind that other black door at 55 Tufton Street |
| 1:36.2 | have helped shape British public life. |
| 1:38.8 | I'll be guiding you through this anonymous building's influence on three huge issues, |
| 1:44.0 | austerity, Brexit and climate change. Just hours after the new PM walked into number 10, through the most famous Black Door in the world, she announced that her new economics |
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