This is actually the first series of Labour MP Tony Benn’s behind-the-scenes revelations from your highly acclaimed BBC Radio 4 series. ‘The Observer’ known as it ‘Irresistible fly-on-the-wall history as it actually happens.’ Late each night for over twenty-five years the Labour MP and former Secretary of State Tony Benn sat only and dictated onto tape his accounts from the daily occasions at the heart of government. The immediacy, passion and mood can be stunning as he unburdens himself of the pressure and tension, studies and tribulations of government and opposition with accounts veering from anecdotal to nearly confessional. Occasions recalled in the to begin these exclusive and exceptional recordings – heard by the public for the first time on Radio 4 – consist of Harold Wilson’s surprise resignation in 1976; the possibly catastrophic 1977 hit at Windscale; the year-long miners’ strike in 1984 and the general election in 1992.