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Learning to Love the Microphone

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In an examination of how politicians at the dawn of mass democracy adapted to using new media, Anne Perkins looks at how prime ministers Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain coped, and reveals how the first spin doctor crafted the Conservative leaders' images to appeal to a new mass electorate. Editor of The Westminster Hour Terry Dignan
Learning to Love the Microphone is repeated on Wednesday at 8.45pm

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Anne Perkins
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Stanley Baldwin
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Neville Chamberlain
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Terry Dignan
Source: Radio Times

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