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Roy Jenkins

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Last broadcast on Fri, 17 Apr 2009, 23:00 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.

Polly Toynbee, David Steel and Dick Taverne argue that Roy Jenkins, former home secretary, chancellor, president of the European Commission and founder member of the SDP, was one of the greatest politicians of the post-Second World War era.

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  1. Tue 14 Apr 2009
    16:30
  2. Fri 17 Apr 2009
    23:00

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