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In this series, Peter Hennessy, the historian of modern Britain, asks senior politicians to reflect on their life and times. Each week, he invites his guest to explore their early influences, their experiences of events and their impressions of people they've known.
In this second episode, Roy Hattersley, the former Labour Deputy Leader, tells how a teacher inspired his belief in equality and recalls what he learned about attitudes to poverty while delivering milk on a vacation job.
Roy Hattersley's vivid recollections of an eventful career at the heart of the Labour Party are spiced with insights into its leading characters and also into its setbacks and triumphs. His commitment to comprehensive education remains undimmed and he regrets never having been Education Secretary.
The first episode in this series featured Sir John Major, the former Prime Minister.
Peter's other guests in the current series are: Lord Steel of Aikwood (David Steel), the former Liberal Party Leader, and Dame Margaret Beckett MP, the only woman to have been Foreign Secretary and to have led the Labour Party (in 1994), and former Deputy Leader of her party.
The producer is Rob Shepherd.