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Not A Day For Soundbites
Not A Day For Soundbites: A Podcast Exploring The History of Labour Party Speeches
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12. Episode Eleven: Gordon Brown's New Labour Achievements Speech
01:23:42||Ep. 12In this final episode of the podcast, Will looks at the last speech given by a Labour Prime Minister at a Labour Party Conference - so far. It's a speech that is generally remembered for Gordon Brown's passionate listing of many of the achievements from the New Labour period in office. The episode looks at this speech in great depth and at Brown's career prior to making it and before he became Prime Minister.
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11. Episode Ten: Neil Kinnock’s 1983 Acceptance Speech
40:35||Ep. 11In this episode of the podcast Will looks back at Neil Kinnock's 1983 Leadership acceptance speech, given at the 1983 Labour Party Conference in Brighton in the wake of Kinnock's election as leader of the Labour Party and the party's crushing defeat at the hands of the Conservatives at that year's general election.10. Episode Nine: Philip Snowden w/ Alex Clifford of History’s Most
01:41:53||Ep. 10In this episode of the podcast Will discusses the life and career of Philip Snowden, the Labour Party's first Chancellor of the Exchequer, and his infamous 1931 election broadcast with Alex Clifford one of the hosts of the History's Most podcast.9. Episode Eight: Who was John Robert Clynes?
59:26||Ep. 9In this episode of the podcast Will looks at the life of John Robert Clynes, the first Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, the first Englishman to lead Labour and one of its first Home Secretaries to answer the question - well who was he? This episode analyses his life and looks at a rare speech from the 1929 election (with thanks to Harry Taylor for providing the original recording). Warning: the quality of the speech recording has been cleaned up but is still not perfect so please be aware when listening.8. Neil Kinnock on Labour Speeches
01:04:41||Ep. 8In this episode of the podcast Will is joined by Neil Kinnock, the former Leader of the Labour Party from 1983 - 1992 to discuss the history of Labour speeches, his own approach to writing speeches and some of his most iconic speeches as Labour Leader.7. Episode Six: The 1976 Monetarist Speech w/ Anthony Broxton of Tides of History
54:53||Ep. 7In this episode of the podcast Will is joined by Anthony Broxton, creator of the Tides of History website and Twitter account, to discuss Jim Callaghan's first speech as Leader of the Labour Party and Prime Minister at the October 1976 Labour Party Conference. During this speech Callaghan set out his agenda - one that was controversial both at the time and in retrospect.6. Episode Five: The ”A Thousand Years of History” Speech
01:26:38||Ep. 6In this episode Will looks at Hugh Gaitskell's famous 1962 Labour Party Conference speech, the "A Thousand Years of History" speech and attempts to uncover what made Gaitskell write the speech and how it was influenced by his past and his political career. The next episode will focus on Gordon Brown's 2009 "New Labour Achievements" speech and will be out soon.