Not A Day For Soundbites

Three new episodes of the podcast will be released this November - stay tuned for when the episodes are released. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 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.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 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.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 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.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 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.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 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.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 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.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of the podcast Will examines Harold Wilson's 1967 "Pound in Your Pocket" speech, given as the pound was devalued by Harold Wilson's government. Wilson's speech was well remembered for the infamous pound in your pocket phrase but was there more to this iconic speech than meets the eye? The next episode of the podcast, focussing on Hugh Gaitskell's 1962 "A Thousand Years of History" speech will be released in Jan 2022.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode of the podcast Will looks at Tony Blair's 1996 Labour Party Conference speech, the "Education, Education, Education" speech and examines the circumstances around its delivery and Tony Blair's time as Leader of the Labour Party prior to the Labour's 1997 General Election victory. This episode has been produced as part of the University of Warwick's URSS scheme - more information at to the project this relates to can be found in the episode itself. Next time Will will look at Harold Wilson's infamous "The Pound In Your Pocket" speech.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.