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Things Can Only Get Worse

Drama: Political

1997-2001

Adaptation of John O'Farrell's best-selling book about the New Labour project.

Things Can Only Get Worse 

John O'Farrell

Hugh Dennis

Doon Mackichan

Lewis MacLeod

Jan Ravens

Victoria Lloyd

Things Can Only Get Worse: 2001-2007

Comedy

2001-2007

BBC Radio 4 - Things Can Only Get Worse, 2001-2007

Political comedy memoir from accidental parliamentary candidate John O'Farrell.

John O'Farrell looks back at the last 20 years in British politics to try to make sense of where we are now. News archive and music from the time bring events to life.

Episode 2 - 2001-2007
John O'Farrell looks back at the last 20 years in British politics, to try to make sense of where we are now. The shine had barely gone off the New Labour project when 9/11 changed everything. By the time of the 2005 election, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were rowing so hard that Blair's purchase of two ice-creams felt significant and oddly reassuring. Iraq made the New Labour government unpopular but for Gordon Brown a bigger crisis was ahead - at the hands of, well, Gordon Brown. 

written and read by John O'Farrell 

Produced by Victoria Lloyd
A BBC Studios Production.

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