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The Rock and Poll Years

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

The last in the series mixing pop and politics to capture the atmosphere and chart the course of general election campaigns which changed the country. Sandi Toksvig remembers 1987, when Living in a Box was in the charts and a cupboard in Knightsbridge sold for a small fortune.
Margaret Thatcher had been in Downing Street for eight years, and challenging her were Labour's Neil Kinnock and the two Davids - Owen and Steel - of the Alliance. Producer Chris Bond

Contributors

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Sandi Toksvig
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Margaret Thatcher
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Neil Kinnock
Producer:
Chris Bond
Source: Radio Times

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