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British General Elections podcast

British General Elections podcast

By: Tim Smith
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 This podcast tells the story of classic British General Elections. Starting in the 1950s the podcast introduces the main participants, traces the progress of the campaign, discusses how the election was covered by the press, isolates and explains the key issues and analyses the results. What can the experience of past general elections teach today's politicians, and voters?

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Episodes
  • 1951 Opening manoeuvres of the election

    1951 Opening manoeuvres of the election
    Jan 26 2025
    The public are mostly concerned with the King's Health. The situation in Persia remains difficult, the stock market rallies on hopes the Conservatives are going to win

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    26 mins
  • 1951 Election part 2

    1951 Election part 2
    Dec 15 2024
    Attlee calls an early election as George VI has a lung removed.

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    37 mins
  • Election 2024 special - final day

    Election 2024 special - final day
    Jul 3 2024
    I go through the final polls, timings for the exit poll and counts, what is the exit poll etc and a word on Scotland and Wales

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    39 mins
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A great series hopefully it will continue to cover general elections up until 2019 election

Great series

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Tim Smith does an excellent job of breaking down each election campaign and looking at the issues at the time of the elections and putting them into context. British General Elections can often be huge times of change in the countries recent history but often the context of the elections and the campaigns and the issues of the day are lost to time. Tim Smith really does a good job of looking at all that. Long may he continue.

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