Tony Benn

Great Lives

BBC

History, Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.2 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

"It's the complicated ones I enjoy the most." Matthew Parris Tony Benn, MP from 1950 to 2001, packed so much into a long career. He renounced the peerage inherited from his father, served in the Labour governments of both Harold Wilson and Jim Callaghan, led the Stop the War Coalition from 2001 and became pretty much the country’s pre-eminent rock star politician in older age. Comedian Ellie Gibson says she was a Tony Benn groupie and saw him speak many times. A brilliant orator and prolific diarist, he was by the 1980s distrusted by many in his own party, and a bogey figure in the right wing press. Contributors include ex Labour MP, Chris Mullin, and his biographer, Jad Adams; plus rare early archive of Tony Benn himself talking about his constitutional fight to give up his inherited peerage. Ellie Gibson is one half of the Scummy Mummies podcast duo. The producer in Bristol is Miles Warde

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0:00.0	He's a rule breaker, a trend setter. He reshaped art and redefined graffiti.
0:07.4	How does he smell?
0:08.4	Like paint.
0:09.3	Has he got any distinction features?
0:10.8	His anonymity.
0:11.9	But who is he?
0:13.2	What's his name?
0:14.1	Banksy.
0:15.0	Apparently I've met him twice.
0:16.5	The Banksy story.
0:18.0	Banksy's work is always about the human spirit versus establishment.
0:24.3	Listen on BBC Science.
0:27.4	BBC Sounds.
0:29.4	Music, radio, podcasts.
0:32.4	Right, off we go.
0:34.4	Play the tape.
0:35.4	Does the team think that class distinctions of some sort are essential to a society?
0:40.4	Does the team think that class distinctions of some sort are essential to a society?
0:46.4	Erdogan bed.
0:48.4	The word equality is very wrongly used because I'm not a egalitarian at all.
0:54.4	I believe that all people are different and what I object to about our society is that it is an obstacle race
1:01.4	which prevents people from becoming what by their nature and origins and talents they could become.
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