Westminster Hour
Radio 4's Sunday night political discussion programme
Westminster Hour - 01/02/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Carolyn Quinn. Including The Few.
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Westminster Hour - 01/03/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Carolyn Quinn. Including The Prime Ministers.
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Westminster Hour - 01/06/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including On Closer Inspection. Marcus Brigstocke meet some of his targets for satire and reassesses his own prejudices.
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Westminster Hour - 01/07/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Great Political Myths, as Simon Hoggart continues to explode some famous examples of political mythology.
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Westminster Hour - 01/11/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Cases That Changed Our World.
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Westminster Hour - 02/01/2011
Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with Carolyn Quinn.
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Westminster Hour - 02/03/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Bugging the Nats: The SNP and MI5.
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Westminster Hour - 02/08/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Election Agent.
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Westminster Hour - 02/09/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Minding the Shop. Tony Howard discusses what happens when a Prime Minister goes on a break.
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Westminster Hour - 02/11/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Classrooms to Power.
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Westminster Hour - 02/12/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Power and the Web (2/2).
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Westminster Hour - 03/01/2010
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including More Than A Game.
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Westminster Hour - 03/02/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Politically Charged.
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Westminster Hour - 03/05/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Petitioning the Modern Way.
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Westminster Hour - 03/06/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Lying Abroad: How to Be an Ambassador, which is repeated on Wednesday.
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Westminster Hour - 03/08/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Bowing out Gracefully: The Brandreth Rules for Standing Down.
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Westminster Hour - 04/01/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Secret Lives.
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Westminster Hour - 04/02/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Brandreth Rules for the Great Offices. Gyles lays down his rules on how to be Chancellor.
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Westminster Hour - 04/03/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Letters Pages.
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Westminster Hour - 04/04/2010
Carolyn Quinn previews the week's political agenda with MPs, experts and commentators. In depth discussions, reports and interviews about the big stories at Westminster.
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Westminster Hour - 04/05/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm The Sermon on the Mound.
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Westminster Hour - 04/10/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Conserving What?
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Westminster Hour - 04/11/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Any Complaints about Europe? at 10.45pm. 1/2. Mark Mardell looks at the work of the EU Petitions Committee.
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Westminster Hour - 05/04/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Carolyn Quinn. Including The Prime Ministers.
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Westminster Hour - 05/08/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm The Voter on the Couch.
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Westminster Hour - 05/10/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Other Heartlands.
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Westminster Hour - 05/12/2010
Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power.
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Westminster Hour - 06/01/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Do Nothing.
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Westminster Hour - 06/04/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm From Trotsky to Respect: A History of the Socialist Workers' Party (1/2).
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Westminster Hour - 06/05/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Getting What We Deserve, which is repeated on Wednesday.
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Westminster Hour - 06/07/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Norman Smith. Including Fifty Years before the Masthead. Political journalist Anthony Howard takes an autobiographical journey.
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Westminster Hour - 06/09/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Britain's White House.
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Westminster Hour - 06/12/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Political Roots.
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Westminster Hour - 07/02/2010
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Class Dismissed.
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Westminster Hour - 07/03/2010
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including It Happened Here.
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Westminster Hour - 07/09/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Condensed History of Political Parties.
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Westminster Hour - 07/10/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Preparing for Power: Elinor Goodman looks at how Opposition parties prepare for power ahead of General Elections.
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Westminster Hour - 07/12/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Draftsman's Contract.
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Westminster Hour - 08/02/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Carolyn Quinn. Including: I Was Put on Trial by al-Qaeda.
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Westminster Hour - 08/03/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Carolyn Quinn. Including The Prime Ministers.
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Westminster Hour - 08/06/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including On Closer Inspection. Marcus Brigstocke meet some of his targets for satire and reassesses his own prejudices.
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Westminster Hour - 08/07/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Great Political Myths, with Simon Hoggart.
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Westminster Hour - 08/11/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Cases That Changed Our World.
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Westminster Hour - 09/01/2011
Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power.
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Westminster Hour - 09/03/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Boom or Bust: Michael White assesses some of the most significant budgets from the past (1/3).
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Westminster Hour - 09/08/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Election Agent.
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Westminster Hour - 09/09/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Not My Words, Mr Speaker. 1/2. Matthew Parris explores the vocabulary of politics.
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Westminster Hour - 09/11/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Historians in the Tent of the General.
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Westminster Hour - 09/12/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Stop the World.
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Westminster Hour - 10/01/2010
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including More Than A Game.
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Westminster Hour - 10/02/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Politically Charged.
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Westminster Hour - 10/05/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Letters to Mary.
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Westminster Hour - 10/06/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Lying Abroad: How to Be an Ambassador.
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Westminster Hour - 10/08/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Bowing out Gracefully: The Brandreth Rules for Standing Down.
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Westminster Hour - 11/01/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Norman Smith. Including Schumpeter Rising.
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Westminster Hour - 11/02/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Brandreth Rules for the Great Offices: Gyles lays down his rules on how to be Leader of the Opposition.
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Westminster Hour - 11/03/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at The Letters Pages.
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Westminster Hour - 11/10/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Conserving What?
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Westminster Hour - 11/11/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Any Complaints about Europe? at 10.45pm. 2/2: Mark Mardell looks at the work of the EU Petitions Committee.
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Westminster Hour - 12/04/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Carolyn Quinn. Including The Prime Ministers.
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Westminster Hour - 12/07/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Mark D'Arcy. Including The Call in the Middle of the Night.
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Westminster Hour - 12/08/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm The SNP in Power: The First 100 Days.
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Westminster Hour - 12/10/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Other Heartlands.
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Westminster Hour - 12/12/2010
Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power.
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Westminster Hour - 13/01/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Do Nothing.
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Westminster Hour - 13/04/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm From Trotsky to Respect: A History of the Socialist Workers' Party (2/2).
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Westminster Hour - 13/05/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Bernard and Betty Speak Out, which is repeated on Wednesday.
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Westminster Hour - 13/07/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Jewish Connection.
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Westminster Hour - 13/09/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Scotland's Colony.
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Westminster Hour - 13/12/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Watchdog and the Feral Beast.
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Westminster Hour - 14/02/2010
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Hung, Drawn and Thwarted.
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Westminster Hour - 14/03/2010
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including It Happened Here.
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Westminster Hour - 14/06/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Learning to Love the Microphone.
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Westminster Hour - 14/09/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including In the Think Tanks.
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Westminster Hour - 14/10/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Art of Parliament at 10.45pm. 1/3. Michael Portillo unravels our Parliamentary history through its art collection.
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Westminster Hour - 14/11/2010
Mark D'Arcy talks to The Guardian's Chief Political Correspondent Nick Watt, and previews the Westminster week with Conservative Harriet Baldwin and Labour's Lisa Nandy.
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Westminster Hour - 14/12/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Draftsman's Contract.
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Westminster Hour - 15/02/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Carolyn Quinn. Including the second part of 'I Was Put on Trial by al-Qaeda'.
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Westminster Hour - 15/03/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Carolyn Quinn. Including The Prime Ministers.
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Westminster Hour - 15/06/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Fifty Years before the Masthead. Political journalist Anthony Howard takes an autobiographical journey.
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Westminster Hour - 15/07/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Talking to Terrorists. 1/2. Alastair Crooke reflects on his experience of negotiating with terrorists.
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Westminster Hour - 15/11/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Cases That Changed Our World.
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Westminster Hour - 16/01/2011
Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power.
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Westminster Hour - 16/03/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.40pm Boom or Bust: Michael White assesses some of the most significant budgets from the past (2/3).
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Westminster Hour - 16/08/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Election Agent.
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Westminster Hour - 16/09/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Not My Words, Mr Speaker.
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Westminster Hour - 16/11/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Historians in the Tent of the General.
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Westminster Hour - 16/12/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Stop the World.
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Westminster Hour - 17/01/2010
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including More Than A Game.
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Westminster Hour - 17/02/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm The Jam Generation.
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Westminster Hour - 17/05/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Letters to Mary.
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Westminster Hour - 17/06/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.30pm Lying Abroad: How to Be an Ambassador.
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Westminster Hour - 17/08/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Westminster Follies.
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Westminster Hour - 18/01/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Norman Smith. Including The Condensed History of George W Bush.
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Westminster Hour - 18/02/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Condensed History of Tony Blair.
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Westminster Hour - 18/03/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Arrested Developments: Historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto reflects on the experience of being arrested in the US.
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Westminster Hour - 18/05/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including For Whom the Division Bell Tolled.
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Westminster Hour - 18/10/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Conserving What?
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Westminster Hour - 18/11/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm The Jobseeker's Guide to Parliaments.
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Westminster Hour - 19/04/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Carolyn Quinn. Including The Prime Ministers.
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Westminster Hour - 19/07/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Call in the Middle of the Night.
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Westminster Hour - 19/08/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Is that a Deal? 1/2. Michael Cockerell looks back at intriguing political deals gone wrong.
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Westminster Hour - 19/10/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Classrooms to Power.
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Westminster Hour - 19/12/2010
Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power.
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Westminster Hour - 20/01/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Politically Charged.
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Westminster Hour - 20/04/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm When the Politician Meets the Architect.
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Westminster Hour - 20/05/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Bernard and Betty Speak Out, which is repeated on Wednesday.
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Westminster Hour - 20/07/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Jewish Connection.
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Westminster Hour - 20/09/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Peace In Our Time - And What Followed It.
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Westminster Hour - 20/12/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Watchdog and the Feral Beast.
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Westminster Hour - 21/02/2010
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Hung, Drawn and Thwarted.
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Westminster Hour - 21/03/2010
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Make 'Em Laugh.
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Westminster Hour - 21/09/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including In the Think Tanks.
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Westminster Hour - 21/10/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Art of Parliament at 10.45pm with Michael Portillo. 2/3. Statues and the Statute.
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Westminster Hour - 21/11/2010
Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power.
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Westminster Hour - 21/12/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Secret Lives.
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Westminster Hour - 22/02/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Carolyn Quinn. Including How to Explain Europe.
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Westminster Hour - 22/03/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Norman Smith. Including The Prime Ministers.
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Westminster Hour - 22/04/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Foreign Studies.
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Westminster Hour - 22/06/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Fifty Years before the Masthead. Political journalist Anthony Howard takes an autobiographical journey.
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Westminster Hour - 22/07/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Talking to Terrorists. 2/2. Alastair Crooke reflects on his experience of negotiating with terrorist groups.
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Westminster Hour - 22/11/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Cases That Changed Our World.
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Westminster Hour - 23/01/2011
Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power.
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Westminster Hour - 23/03/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Boom or Bust: Michael White assesses some of the most significant budgets from the past (3/3).
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Westminster Hour - 23/08/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Public Meeting.
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Westminster Hour - 23/09/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm The Callaghan Factor.
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Westminster Hour - 23/11/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Received Wisdom: MPs and peers share their stories and top tips for surviving life in Westminster.
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Westminster Hour - 23/12/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Stop the World (3/3).
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Westminster Hour - 24/01/2010
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Turkeys Voting for Christmas.
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Westminster Hour - 24/02/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm The Jam Generation: Anne McElvoy looks at the growing influence of children of the 80s in politics (2/2).
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Westminster Hour - 24/05/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Letters to Mary.
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Westminster Hour - 24/06/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Great Political Myths.
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Westminster Hour - 24/08/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Condensed History of Political Parties.
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Westminster Hour - 25/01/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Carolyn Quinn. Including The Few.
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Westminster Hour - 25/02/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm, The Letters Pages: The row over the biography of former Prime Minister Herbert Asquith, published in 1955.
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Westminster Hour - 25/05/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including For whom the Division Bell Tolled.
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Westminster Hour - 25/10/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Avoiding The Question.
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Westminster Hour - 25/11/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Power and the Web (1/2).
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Westminster Hour - 26/04/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Petitioning the Modern Way.
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Westminster Hour - 26/07/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Strangers in the Lobby: Olivia O'Leary tells the story of the Irish journalists who work alongside the lobby correspondents.
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Westminster Hour - 26/08/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Is That a Deal?
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Westminster Hour - 26/10/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Crash: Scotland's Battle for the Bank.
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Westminster Hour - 27/01/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Politically Charged.
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Westminster Hour - 27/04/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm When the Politician Meets the Architect.
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Westminster Hour - 27/05/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Lying Abroad: How to Be an Ambassador, which is repeated on Wednesday.
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Westminster Hour - 27/07/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Bowing out Gracefully: The Brandreth Rules for Standing Down.
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Westminster Hour - 27/09/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Peace In Our Time - And What Followed It.
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Westminster Hour - 28/02/2010
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including It Happened Here.
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Westminster Hour - 28/09/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including In the Think Tanks.
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Westminster Hour - 28/10/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm The Art of Parliament.
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Westminster Hour - 29/03/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Carolyn Quinn. Including The Prime Ministers.
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Westminster Hour - 29/04/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Getting What We Deserve, which is repeated on Wednesday.
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Westminster Hour - 29/06/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Fifty Years before the Masthead. Political journalist Anthony Howard takes an autobiographical journey.
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Westminster Hour - 29/07/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm The Voter on the Couch. What do we really want from politicians?
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Westminster Hour - 29/11/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Political Roots.
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Westminster Hour - 30/03/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Who Owns Adam Smith? Which party can claim to represent the legacy of the famous Scottish economist?
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Westminster Hour - 30/08/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Britain's White House.
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Westminster Hour - 30/09/2007
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.42pm The Buzz of Politics.
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Westminster Hour - 30/11/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Received Wisdom: MPs and peers share their stories and top tips for surviving life in Westminster.
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Westminster Hour - 31/01/2010
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Turkeys Voting for Christmas.
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Westminster Hour - 31/05/2009
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Condensed History of Big Ben.
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Westminster Hour - 31/08/2008
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including The Condensed History of Political Parties.
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Westminster Hour - Britain's future?
As the Prime Minister unveils his policy blueprint "Building Britain's future" he will be hoping that it will help his Government regain the political initiative.
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Westminster Hour - Order, order!
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Carolyn Quinn. How much more outrage is possible over the expenses saga?
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Westminster Hour - Where Now?
Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. We discuss Gordon Brown's strategy - along with alleged Cabinet discontent.
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