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Jane Ray

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It's 1997 and the election is looming but there is graver news on a personal front.

August 1994 - 'Woken at 4am by a drunken Scotsman', to May 1997 - the new Labour Government sweeps into power with Tony Blair at the helm.

Tony Benn reads from the third part of "Free at Last- Diaries 1991 - 2001", first broadcast in 2003.

In this episode Tony Benn's diaries cover the period leading up to the 1997 General Election. The battle over Clause 4 and a mysterious letter from Canada forcing Benn to realise that he has more time for John Major than for his own leader, Tony Blair. But politics are overshadowed by the news that his beloved wife Caroline has developed cancer of the spine.

Reader Tony Benn
Producer Jane Ray.

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Tony Benn reads from his political diaries covering the years from 1991 to 2001

Tony Benn reads from his political diaries covering the years from 1991 and the first Gulf War up to his last day as an MP in 2001

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