Nick Robinson's Prime Ministers: Complete Series 1

Nick Robinson is the BBC's Political Editor and is frequently to be heard commenting on current political events, or seen reporting on BBC TV News. Election time and political crises find him on air every day and he has also presented programmes including "Westminster Live", "Weekend Breakfast" and "Newsnight". Radio 4 have broadcast one series of 8 programmes on "The Prime Ministers" - a series of 8 15-minute profiles of notable British Prime Ministers.


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.