by Barbara Castle with Donald MacCormick After 19 years as a back-bench MP,
Barbara Castle found herself in the new Labour Cabinet of 1964 as Minister for Overseas Development. Her first experience of being in the Cabinet came as a shock, and she talks frankly about her initial impressions of Cabinet ministry - 'One has very naive ideas about how government works when you are a back-bencher'. In the second of four programmes, she also looks back to the bitter conflict within the Labour Party, when she was a prominent member of the 'Bevanites', the left-wing group led by her hero, Aneurin Bevan , who was frequently at odds with Clement Attlee and Hugh Gaitskell.
Research MONA ADAMS
Rostrum camera KEN MORSE Film editor ALAN MARTIN Producer JOHN WALKER
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