Night Waves - Shirley Williams

In an extended personal interview, Philip Dodd talks Shirley Williams. She discusses her many roles as academic, writer, politician and wife, and digs into the deeper wellsprings that have sustained them all - her Catholicism, her relationship with her mother, Vera Brittain, and her sense of political and moral worth. She talks about her personal regrets from her time in office, what might have been had she gained the Labour leadership and her sense of disappointment at the recent progress of the Left. She also discusses the difficulties she faced as a single women in British politics, the intellectual discipline of Margaret Thatcher and the strange joy of losing power.