Michael Cockerell in conversation
Rock & Roll Politics with Steve Richards
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How to Be a Prime Minister on Television
When did it all begin as an idea for you? That's very interesting. I suppose it sort of began when I was first up at Oxford, when Harold Millen was prime minister and had just won a huge majority of over a hundred in 1959. And he was so kind of charismatic as well as fascinating when he talked about fighting in the First World War. It sparks in the memories of what they were thinking about at the time. One of the things of showing them, the modern prime ministers themselves on television, is that they look at themselves and they suddenly transported back to their prime.
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