A history where women are missing isn't a history at all.

I'm Philippa Gregory and I'll take you through nine centuries

to find women whose stories were not recorded

as they were just normal women.

My brave lads of Molden, I will be your leader, for we will not starve.

And I'll reflect on their lives with women from today.

There's something about a woman protesting, which is deeply uncomfortable.

Find normal women, wherever you get your podcast. Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast on the Times, I'm Matt Chorley.

We live in extraordinary times when rebels become loyalists and loyalists rebels between lunch and dinner time,

when calls the Prime Minister to go are only outweighed by despair at the absence of an obvious better alternative.

Joining me to help write the first draft of this bizarre period of political history

are three biographers who between them have dug into the lives of our leaders past and

present to examine what makes them tick and what might bring them down.

Rosa Prince is a journalist and author of biographies of both Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn

and will ask what the Labour leader needs to do to become PM himself.

Andrew Jimson, biographer Boris Johnson, looks at the former former Secretary's hopes of bouncing

back.

But first, Anthony Selden, who has written countless biographies of Prime Ministers on the

scare of the threat to the current

inhabitant of number 10. All Prime Ministers are judged overwhelmingly on one

particular episode for Tony Blair it was Iraq for Gordon Brown it was the

handling of the world economic crisis for David Cameron it was the calling of the referendum on the EU.

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