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Roy Jenkins
4 Extra Debut. Journalist Polly Toynbee chooses one of the most noted of post-war politicians, Roy Jenkins. With Matthew Parris. From April 2009.
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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