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First Broadcast19 May 2007
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author David Torrance about his book Salmond: Against the Odds.

Dec 2010
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Mark D'Arcy discusses the latest news from the world of political publishing.

Dec 2010
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Mark D'Arcy discusses the latest news from the world of political publishing.

Dec 2010
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Mark D'Arcy in discussion with Paddy Ashdown over his autobiography 'A Fortunate Life'.

Jan 2010
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Alan Beith about his book A View from the North.

Mar 2009
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Andrew Gamble -The Spectre At The Feast: Capitalist Crisis and the Politics of Recession.

Jun 2009
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Andrew Rawnsley talks about his book The End of the Party: The Rise and Fall of New Labour

Mar 2010
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author Andrew Thorpe about his book The History of the Labour Party.

Mar 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author Andy Beckett about his book, When The Lights Went Out.

May 2009
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Andy McSmith on his book No Such Thing As Society: A History of Britain in the 1980s.

Oct 2010
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Ann Treneman about her book, Annus Horribilis.

Nov 2009
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Mark D'Arcy and guests pick the best books for the politically-minded to take to the beach

Jul 2009
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Mark D'Arcy and guests pick books for the politically minded to take to the beach.

Jul 2010
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Mark D'Arcy talks to former Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern about his autobiography.

Oct 2009
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Jul 2007
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Mark D'Arcy in discussion with author David Kynaston about his book Austerity Britain.

Sept 2007
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Mark D'Arcy in discussion with author David Kynaston about his book Austerity Britain.

Sept 2007
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author Bronwen Maddox about her book, In Defence of America.

Dec 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author Charles Williams about his new biography of Harold Macmillan.

Oct 2009
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author Chris Moncrieff about his book Wine, Women and Westminster.

Nov 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author Chris Moncrieff about his book Wine, Women and Westminster.

Jan 2009
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Chris Mullin MP about his diaries, A View from the Foothills.

Apr 2009
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Chris Mullin about his book Decline & Fall: Diaries 2005-2010.

Dec 2010
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Mark D'Arcy, Lord Strathclyde, Lord Hattersley and Sarah Sands make Christmas choices.

Dec 2007
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Mark D'Arcy, Ed Vaizey, Michael White and Baroness Young on their political books of 2008.

Dec 2008
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Mark D'Arcy is joined by Patrick Mercer MP, Liam Halligan and Baroness D'Souza.

Dec 2009
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Christopher Andrew on his book, The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of M15.

Feb 2010
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Professor Christopher Whatley discusses his book 'The Scots and the Union'.

May 2007
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Colin Challen on his book Too Little, Too Late: The Politics of Climate Change.

May 2009
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Mark D'Arcy in discussion with author David Aaronovitch.

Jul 2009
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author David Hencke about his book, Marching to the Fault Line.

Mar 2009
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Mark D'Arcy talks to David Horspool about his book The English Rebel.

Nov 2009
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Mark D'Arcy in discussion with author David Kynaston about his book Austerity Britain.

Jul 2007
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Mark D'Arcy in discussion with David Kynaston about his book Family Britain: 1951-1957.

Oct 2009
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author David Marquand about his book, Britain Since 1918.

Dec 2008
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David Marsh on his book The Euro: The Politics of the New Global Currency.

Feb 2009
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author David Runciman about his book, Political Hypocrisy.

Dec 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author Dennis Sewell about his new book.

Nov 2009
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author David Torrance about his biography of George Younger.

Nov 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author David Torrance about his book Salmond: Against the Odds.

Dec 2010
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Deborah Mattinson about her book, Talking to a Brick Wall.

Jul 2010
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Denis MacShane discusses his book Globalising Hatred: The New Anti-Semitism.

Mar 2009
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author Dick Leonard about his book, Nineteenth Century Premiers.

Nov 2008
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Mark D'Arcy in discussion with Douglas Hurd about his book 'Robert Peel: A Biography'.

Jul 2007
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Mark D'Arcy in discussion with Douglas Hurd about his book Robert Peel: A Biography.

Jul 2007
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Mark D'Arcy in discussion with Douglas Hurd about his book 'Robert Peel: A Biography'.

Jul 2007
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Dr Anthony Seldon about his book 'Blair's Britain: 1997-2007'.

Oct 2007
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author Dr Matt Beech about his book Ten Years of New Labour.

Apr 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to journalist Edward Lucas about his book The New Cold War.

Feb 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Edward Pearce about his book Pitt the Elder: Man of War.

Jan 2010
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Newsweek International editor Fareed Zakaria about his new book.

Jul 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author Ffion Hague about her book The Pain and the Privilege.

Jul 2008
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Mark D'Arcy in discussion with author Francis Beckett about his book 'Clem Attlee'.

Jun 2007
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Gary Younge on his book, Who Are We - and Should It Matter in the 21st Century?

Jul 2010
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Mark D'Arcy talks to General Sir Mike Jackson about his book 'Soldier: An Autobiography'.

Jan 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author George Walden about his book, China: A Wolf in the World?

Nov 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to cartoonist Gerald Scarfe about his book Monsters.

Oct 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author Giles Bolton about his book, Aid and Other Dirty Business.

Jul 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Giles Edwards and Jonathan Isaby about their book, Boris v Ken.

Jul 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Giles Radice about his book The Tortoise and the Hares.

Jan 2009
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author Ion Trewin about his book Alan Clark: The Biography.

Nov 2009
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author Jacob Weisberg about his book'The Bush Tragedy.

Mar 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to BBC Business Editor Robert Peston about his book Who Runs Britain.

Mar 2008
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Mark D'Arcy in discussion with James Hanning and Francis Elliott about their book Cameron.

May 2007
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Mark D'Arcy talks to James Hanning and Francis Elliott about their book 'Cameron'.

Sept 2007
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Mark D'Arcy and his guests choose political books that are worth taking away on holiday.

Jul 2008
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Mark D'Arcy in discussion with author John Adamson about his book 'The Noble Revolt'.

Jun 2007
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author John Campbell about his book Pistols at Dawn.

Jul 2009
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John Charmley on his book A History of Conservative Politics Since 1830.

Mar 2008
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John Mickelthwait's book, God Is Back: How the Global Rise of Faith Is Changing the World.

Jun 2009
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Jon Lawrence on his book Electing Our Masters: The Hustings in British Politics.

Jun 2009
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author Jonah Goldberg about his book, Liberal Fascism.

Jan 2009
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Jonathan Powell on his book Great Hatred, Little Room: Making Peace in Northern Ireland.

Apr 2009
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author Jonathan Steele about his book Defeat: Why We Lost Iraq.

Feb 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author Julia Bush about her book Women Against the Vote.

Mar 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Kathleen Burk and Mary Jordan about the latest political books.

Jul 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author Professor Kathleen Burk about her book Old World, New World.

Jul 2009
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Kenan Malik talks about his book From Fatwah to Jihad: The Rushdie Affair and its Legacy.

Apr 2009
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Mary D'Arcy talks to Lord Bernard Donoughue on his book The Downing Street Diary Volume 2.

Oct 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author Lord Bikhu Parekh about his book 'A New Politics of Identity'.

May 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Conservative peer Lord Lawson about his book, 'An Appeal to Reason'.

May 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Labour peer Lord Levy about his book 'A Question of Honour'.

May 2008
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Mark D'Arcy in discussion with Lord Morgan about his book A Life: Michael Foot.

Aug 2007
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Lord Norman Fowler about his book on the Tories, A Political Suicide.

Nov 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Lord Owen about his book 'The Hubris Syndrome'.

Oct 2007
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author Lord Owen about his book 'In Sickness and In Power'.

Jun 2008
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Martin Bell on his book 'The Truth That Sticks: New Labour's Breach of Trust'.

Jan 2008
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Martin Pugh on his book, Speak for Britain! A History of the Labour Party.

Mar 2010
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Mark D'Arcy in discussion with Michael Dobbs about his book, The Lords' Day.

Nov 2007
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Mark D'Arcy in discussion with Michael Dobbs about his book The Lords' Day.

Nov 2007
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Misha Glenny about his book McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime.

Mar 2009
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Nick Boles MP on his book Which Way's Up? The Future for Coalition Britain.

Nov 2010
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author Nick Davies about his book, Flat Earth News.

Jun 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Patrick Cockburn about his book Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq.

Jun 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author Mark Leonard about his book, What Does China Think?

Jul 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Nigel Lawson about his book, Memoirs of a Tory Radical.

Nov 2010
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Mark D'Arcy talks to author Ophelia Field about her book The Kit-Kat Club.

Oct 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks with Paddy Ashdown about his book 'Swords and Ploughshares'.

Jun 2007
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Mark D'Arcy talks with Paddy Ashdown about his book Swords and Ploughshares.

Aug 2007
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Mark D'Arcy speaks to Lord Paddy Ashdown about his book A Fortunate Life.

Apr 2010
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Author Peter Hennessy on his book, The Secret State: Preparing for the Worst 1945-2010.

Jul 2010
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Peter Hitchens on his book The Broken Compass: How British Politics Lost Its Way.

Jun 2009
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Peter Oborne about his book 'The Triumph of the Political Class'.

Nov 2007
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Inside Out: My Story of Betrayal and Cowardice at the Heart of New Labour, by Peter Watt.

Feb 2010
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Philip Ziegler about his book, Edward Heath: the Authorised Biography

Jul 2010
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Professor Kathleen Burk about her book 'Old World, New World'.

Jan 2008
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Professor Paul Bew on his book 'The Politics of Enmity: Britain and Ireland'.

Feb 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to MP Norman Baker about his book The Strange Death of David Kelly.

Feb 2008
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Professor Philip Cowley discusses his book The British General Election of 2010.

Nov 2010
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Mark D'Arcy in discussion with Richard Milton about his book, Best of Enemies.

Dec 2007
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Richard Toye discusses his book 'Lloyd George and Churchill: Rivals for Greatness'.

Jun 2007
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Robert Peston and Francis Beckett discuss their biographies of Gordon Brown.

Jun 2007
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Robert Peston and Francis Beckett discuss their biographies of Gordon Brown.

Jul 2007
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Roy Hattersley discusses his book, Borrowed Time: The Story of Britain Between the Wars.

Dec 2007
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Roy Hattersley about his book David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider.

Nov 2010
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Shirley Williams about her autobiography, Climbing the Bookshelves.

Mar 2010
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Sir Ian Blair about his book Policing Controversy.

Feb 2010
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Sir Menzies Campbell about his autobiography.

Apr 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Sir Menzies Campbell about his autobiography.

May 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Sir Menzies Campbell about his autobiography.

Sept 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Stephen Haseler about his book Meltdown.

Feb 2009
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Stephen Meredith about his book 'Labours Old and New'.

May 2008
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Stephen Robinson about his book The Remarkable Life of Bill Deedes.

Jun 2008
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Mark D'Arcy, Vince Cable, Gillian Tett and Paul Mason look at books on the credit crunch.

Jul 2009
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Tristram Hunt and Sunder Katwala on Robert Tressle's The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.

Jan 2011
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Michael Dobbs, Nick Cohen and Sandra Howard discuss the summer's hot political books.

Jul 2007
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Michael Dobbs, Nick Cohen and Sandra Howard discuss the summer's hot political books.

Jul 2007
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Michael Dobbs, Nick Cohen and Sandra Howard discuss the summer's must-read politics books.

Aug 2007
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Tim Bale on his book The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron.

Mar 2010
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Mark D'Arcy talks to Tony Benn about his book, More Time for Politics: Diaries 2001-2007.

Nov 2007
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The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels.

May 2009
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Author Will Hutton discusses his book 'China: The Writing on the Wall'.

May 2007
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Mark D'Arcy in discussion with William Hague about his book 'William Wilberforce'.

Jul 2007
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Mark D'Arcy in discussion with William Hague about his book William Wilberforce.

Jul 2007