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Radio 4,24 Feb 2015,28 mins

The 1929 General Election and the Art of Political Persuasion

The Long View

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Jonathan Freedland focuses on the art of political persuasion, through the prism of the 1929 general election, when the Conservative Party employed the UK's top advertising agency. Producer Mohini Patel.

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