Nick Robinson's The Prime Ministers: William Pitt (Series 2, Episode 1)
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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 1: William Pitt the Younger - who became Prime Minister aged only 24 and held the post for almost 19 years in total.Contributors:William Hague MP - BiographerProfessor Jane Ridley - Biographer and historian Professor Jeremy Black - HistorianJohn Keyworth - Curator, Bank of England MuseumBrian Bowles (extract from speech by Charles James Fox)Sean Baker (extracts from speeches by William Pitt the Younger)First broadcast 12 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 1: William Pitt the Younger - who became Prime Minister aged only 24 and held the post for almost 19 years in total.Contributors:William Hague MP - BiographerProfessor Jane Ridley - Biographer and historian Professor Jeremy Black - HistorianJohn Keyworth - Curator, Bank of England MuseumBrian Bowles (extract from speech by Charles James Fox)Sean Baker (extracts from speeches by William Pitt the Younger)First broadcast 12 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 1: William Pitt the Younger - who became Prime Minister aged only 24 and held the post for almost 19 years in total.Contributors:William Hague MP - BiographerProfessor Jane Ridley - Biographer and historian Professor Jeremy Black - HistorianJohn Keyworth - Curator, Bank of England MuseumBrian Bowles (extract from speech by Charles James Fox)Sean Baker (extracts from speeches by William Pitt the Younger)First broadcast 12 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 1: William Pitt the Younger - who became Prime Minister aged only 24 and held the post for almost 19 years in total.Contributors:William Hague MP - BiographerProfessor Jane Ridley - Biographer and historian Professor Jeremy Black - HistorianJohn Keyworth - Curator, Bank of England MuseumBrian Bowles (extract from speech by Charles James Fox)Sean Baker (extracts from speeches by William Pitt the Younger)First broadcast 12 April 2011.