Nick Robinson's The Prime Ministers: Earl Grey (Series 2, Episode 2)
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The BBC’s Nick Robinson continues his fascinating and absorbing Radio 4 series featuring eight famous British Prime Ministers, which explores how Prime Ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time.Episode 2: Earl Grey - who passed the Great Reform Act and abolished slavery in the British Empire.Contributors:Stephen Twining - Member of the Twining family, tea manufacturersAmanda Foreman - Biographer and historianProfessor Jane Ridley - Biographer and historianProfessor Jeremy Black - HistorianKenneth Baker - Writer and former Minister, member of the House of LordsDaniel Rubin (extracts from speeches by Earl Grey)Simon Bubb (extracts from letter by Thomas Macaulay)First broadcast 19 April 2011.The BBC’s Nick Robinson continues his fascinating and absorbing Radio 4 series featuring eight famous British Prime Ministers, which explores how Prime Ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time.Episode 2: Earl Grey - who passed the Great Reform Act and abolished slavery in the British Empire.Contributors:Stephen Twining - Member of the Twining family, tea manufacturersAmanda Foreman - Biographer and historianProfessor Jane Ridley - Biographer and historianProfessor Jeremy Black - HistorianKenneth Baker - Writer and former Minister, member of the House of LordsDaniel Rubin (extracts from speeches by Earl Grey)Simon Bubb (extracts from letter by Thomas Macaulay)First broadcast 19 April 2011.The BBC’s Nick Robinson continues his fascinating and absorbing Radio 4 series featuring eight famous British Prime Ministers, which explores how Prime Ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time.Episode 2: Earl Grey - who passed the Great Reform Act and abolished slavery in the British Empire.Contributors:Stephen Twining - Member of the Twining family, tea manufacturersAmanda Foreman - Biographer and historianProfessor Jane Ridley - Biographer and historianProfessor Jeremy Black - HistorianKenneth Baker - Writer and former Minister, member of the House of LordsDaniel Rubin (extracts from speeches by Earl Grey)Simon Bubb (extracts from letter by Thomas Macaulay)First broadcast 19 April 2011.The BBC’s Nick Robinson continues his fascinating and absorbing Radio 4 series featuring eight famous British Prime Ministers, which explores how Prime Ministers have used their power and responded to the great challenges of their time.Episode 2: Earl Grey - who passed the Great Reform Act and abolished slavery in the British Empire.Contributors:Stephen Twining - Member of the Twining family, tea manufacturersAmanda Foreman - Biographer and historianProfessor Jane Ridley - Biographer and historianProfessor Jeremy Black - HistorianKenneth Baker - Writer and former Minister, member of the House of LordsDaniel Rubin (extracts from speeches by Earl Grey)Simon Bubb (extracts from letter by Thomas Macaulay)First broadcast 19 April 2011.