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Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.

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Great Lives: Frances Crook on Barbara Castle

Frances Crook on Barbara Castle

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Frances Crook proposes Labour politician Barbara Castle. Roy Hattersley is witness

Prison reformer Frances Crook proposes Labour politician, Barbara Castle. With Roy Hattersley and Matthew Parris. From 2015.

Prison reformer Frances Crook chooses campaigning Labour politician, Barbara Castle. 

She was the reforming transport minister who couldn't drive, the childless woman who changed lives for mothers by paying Child Benefit directly to them, the passionate Labour cabinet minister who didn't become the first female Prime Minister but perhaps paved the way for the Conservative woman who did.
 
Matthew Parris explores the life of Barbara Castle with his guest Frances Crook, the Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, and Roy Hattersley, who worked with Barbara Castle in the 1960s, is their expert witness.
 
Producer Christine Hall

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.

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