Order! Order!
Sixty Years of Today in Parliament
Mark D'Arcy(Author)
Politico's Publishing Ltd
Published on 10. October 2005
Book
Hardback
484 pages
978-1-84275-139-8 (ISBN)
Description
Celebrating radio's best-loved political programme - Published in association with the BBC to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the first broadcast of TODAY IN PARLIAMENT in October 1945. - On-air plugs. - All the big parliamentary occasions of the last 60 years. Today In Parliament, BBC Radio 4's daily account of goings-on in the Palace of Westminster, has become, along with its sister programme Yesterday In Parliament, as much a fixture of British political life as the institution it reports - and considerably more loved an respected. Order! Order! charts the history of this keystone programme and the issues it has provoked (notably, whether to broadcast proceedings) and brings together the key speeches and major occasions of the last sixty years: the Suez debates, John Profumo's statement, the death of Churchill, the high drama of the 1979 No Confidence debate, the day Margaret Thatcher resigned, Michael Heseltine swinging the mace, Tony Blair laying out the case for action in Iraq, resignation speeches which changed the course of political history, and other individual tours de force.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Methuen Publishing Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 161 mm
Weight
875 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84275-139-8 (9781842751398)
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MARK D'ARCY has been producing and presenting politics at BBC Radio since the early 1990s, and is a regular presenter of Today In Parliament. He is co-author, with Rory McLean, of Nightmare, Politico's Publishing's acclaimed account of the election of Ken Livingstone as London mayor in 2000.