Podcast: What was it like working for Ted Heath?

As well as a Substack, Since Attlee & Churchill is also a podcast on Apple, Spotify and other platforms. Recent episodes have included:

• Did Edward Heath deserve the name ‘The Incredible Sulk?’

• Who was Labour’s greatest champion of overseas aid?

• And what use is the House of Lords, anyway?

We are thrilled that our most recent episode on Ted Heath’s post-premiership, the so called ‘incredible sulk’, smashed our records for downloads. So we’ve decided to do a special bonus podcast for subscribers: an interview with Dr Mark Garnett, a renowned historian of the Conservative Party and researcher for Ted Heath on the former prime minister’s memoirs.

In this episode, we discuss Heath’s approach to writing his memoirs, his ideological grounding, how he came to terms with Thatcherism, and why he stayed around in the House of Commons for so long - a full 26 years after he lost the Tory leadership in 1975.

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