The Prime Ministers - Series 1

Nick Robinson presents a series exploring how prime ministers have used their
power and responded to the great challenges of their time and how they made
the job what it is today.

Episode 1: Sir Robert Walpole, the first and longest-serving prime minister.
Episode 2: Lord North, remembered as the prime minister who lost America.
Episode 3: Sir Robert Peel, who put national interest before party interest.
Episode 4: Lord Palmerston, notorious womaniser, who cultivated a cavalier
image and dominated mid-Victorian politics.
Episode 5: Benjamin Disraeli turned his skills as a novelist to politics and
became Britain's first Jewish-born prime minister.
Episode 6: David Lloyd George, Welsh radical who set up the early welfare
state, became a presidential PM in the First World War and split the Liberal
party.
Episode 7: Stanley Baldwin, the first prime minister to master radio
broadcasting, his notion of Englishness shaped inter-war Britain.
Episode 8: Clement Attlee, who lacked any charisma, but created modern welfare
state and managed the big political beasts in his Cabinet.

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