HistoryExtra Home of Britain’s bestselling history magazine and award-winning podcast 2024-10-29T19:08:49.000Z https://www.historyextra.com/tag/britain-greatest-prime-minister-podcast-series/feed/atom HistoryExtra <![CDATA[Who was Britain’s greatest prime minister? Episode 9: Secrets of being a successful leader]]> https://www.historyextra.com/membership/britain-greatest-prime-minister-episode-9-secrets-successful-leader-podcast-anthony-seldon/ 2024-10-29T19:08:49.000Z 2021-06-15T11:14:51.000Z For the concluding episode of our series on the prime ministers that experts believe accomplished most during their time in 10 Downing Street, Anthony Seldon joins us to discuss the secrets of being a great leader, and some of the challenges facing those in charge over the last 300 years.

Anthony Seldon is the author of The Impossible Office?: The History of the British Prime Minister (Cambridge University Press, 2021)

]]> HistoryExtra <![CDATA[Who was Britain’s greatest prime minister? Episode 8: Margaret Thatcher]]> https://www.historyextra.com/membership/britain-greatest-prime-minister-podcast-episode-margaret-thatcher/ 2024-10-29T19:08:41.000Z 2021-06-08T11:10:43.000Z In the latest episode of our new series profiling the prime ministers that experts believe accomplished most during their time in 10 Downing Street, historian and author Andrew Roberts nominates Margaret Thatcher, who combined ideological drive with steely determination.

]]> HistoryExtra <![CDATA[Who was Britain’s greatest prime minister? Episode 7: Lord Salisbury]]> https://www.historyextra.com/membership/britain-greatest-prime-minister-lord-salisbury-podcast/ 2024-10-29T19:08:32.000Z 2021-06-01T11:52:23.000Z In the latest episode of our series profiling the prime ministers that experts believe accomplished most during their time in 10 Downing Street, historian and author Andrew Roberts nominates Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, third Marquess of Salisbury, whose three terms in office at the end of the 19th century saw Britain reach the very height of its imperial power.

]]> HistoryExtra <![CDATA[Who was Britain’s greatest prime minister? Episode 6: Winston Churchill]]> https://www.historyextra.com/membership/britain-greatest-prime-minister-episode-6-winston-churchill-podcast/ 2024-10-29T19:08:24.000Z 2021-05-25T11:57:23.000Z In the latest episode of our series profiling the prime ministers that experts believe accomplished most during their time in 10 Downing Street, Jeremy Black nominates Winston Churchill – the leader who became a wartime icon by galvanising the nation in the face of terrible crisis.

]]> HistoryExtra <![CDATA[Who was Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister? Episode 5: Pitt the Younger]]> https://www.historyextra.com/membership/britain-greatest-prime-minister-episode-5-pitt-younger/ 2024-10-29T19:08:17.000Z 2021-05-18T11:24:04.000Z In the latest episode of our new series profiling the prime ministers that experts believe accomplished most during their time in 10 Downing Street, historian and broadcaster Dominic Sandbrook nominates William Pitt the Younger, the steady, upright leader who steered Britain through the turbulence of the French Revolution.

]]> HistoryExtra <![CDATA[Who was Britain’s greatest prime minister? Episode 4: Harold Wilson]]> https://www.historyextra.com/membership/britain-greatest-prime-minister-episode-4-harold-wilson/ 2024-10-29T19:08:09.000Z 2021-05-11T11:32:28.000Z In the latest episode of our new series profiling the prime ministers that experts believe accomplished most during their time in 10 Downing Street, Charlotte Lydia Riley chooses Harold Wilson, whose forward-looking premiership came to define the progressive 1960s.

]]> HistoryExtra <![CDATA[Who was Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister? Episode 3: Clement Attlee]]> https://www.historyextra.com/membership/britain-greatest-prime-minister-episode-3-clement-attlee-podcast/ 2024-10-29T19:08:00.000Z 2021-05-04T12:37:02.000Z In the latest episode in our new series profiling the prime ministers that experts believe accomplished most during their time in 10 Downing Street, historian Charlotte Lydia Riley explores the postwar leadership of Labour prime minister Clement Attlee.

]]> HistoryExtra <![CDATA[Who was Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister? Episode 2: Stanley Baldwin]]> https://www.historyextra.com/membership/britain-greatest-prime-minister-episode-2-stanley-baldwin-podcast-dominic-sandbrook/ 2024-10-29T19:07:53.000Z 2021-04-27T12:27:38.000Z In the second episode of our new series profiling the prime ministers that experts believe accomplished most during their time in 10 Downing Street, historian and broadcaster Dominic Sandbrook champions three-time 20th-century leader Stanley Baldwin.

]]> HistoryExtra <![CDATA[Who was Britain’s Greatest Prime Minister? Episode 1: Robert Walpole]]> https://www.historyextra.com/membership/britain-greatest-prime-minister-podcast-series-episode-one-robert-walpole/ 2024-10-29T19:07:46.000Z 2021-04-20T11:16:20.000Z In the first episode of our new series profiling the prime ministers that experts believe accomplished most during their time in 10 Downing Street, historian and author Jeremy Black celebrates Britain’s first prime minister – pioneering 18th-century statesman Robert Walpole.

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