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For five decades Gyles Brandreth has been a dedicated diarist. These five programmes recall some of the famous and notorious people he's met in a long and varied career.

The first programme is on Prime Ministers. Harold Macmillan was Gyles's first Prime Minister. He remembers Supermac's fall and the race to succeed him, and eventually met the great man in Oxford in 1979. Macmillan dozed throughout. Gyles also met Ted Heath at Oxford but it didn't go well, Gyles was underpar, so underpar he was sick on Heath's shoes. Gyles was an MP and a whip during John Major's time at Number Ten. He witnessed the government's disaster at first hand. And when Tony Blair was booed by the Women's Institute, the next speaker was - Gyles Brandreth.

Producer: Chris Bond.