# Edward Heath

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Needle Drop Nation Ep11 | Rebels Rifts And The Restless Year

Podcast Title: Needle Drop Nation Episode 11: 1974 – Rebels, Riffs, and the Restless Year Description: Welcome to Episode 11 of Needle Drop Nation! This week, hosts Jody Barrias and Nick Wood are diving into 1974, an era they are officially crowning "Rebels, Riffs, and the Restless Year". 1974 was …

The Broadcast on Fogo Island: Take a drive around the island to hear what really keeps this place going + A look back at a tumultuous time in the history of the fisheries Co-op + What does prosperity mean for the founder of Shorefast?

Meet Edward Heath who drives a tour bus on Fogo Island + We'll look back to May of 2000 which was a tumultuous time for the Fogo Island Co-op + What Shorefast founder Zita Cobb has to say about prosperity.

Matters of Interest: Starmer Walks Away & Sovereignty is Back in Fashion

In this week’s Matters of Interest, Lee and Richard discuss Starmer’s decision to resign as an MP – and look at how his departure is part of a much bigger change in the relationship between former prime ministers and Parliament. Will any future PM do as Arthur Balfour and Edward Heath did and stay …

420. Britain in 1974: Thatcher Enters the Ring (Part 4)

The horrific Guildford Pub Bombings of Saturday 5th October 1974 sent shockwaves through Britain, worsening the sense of crisis sweeping through the nation. It cast a dark shadow over the election campaign due to take place five days later. The future had rarely seemed grimmer, with a general sense…

418. Britain in 1974: The Crisis Election (Part 2)

Three days after one of the most devastating IRA attacks launched upon British soil, the Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath called an election, in circumstances that had never been more dire. Running against him was the veteran Labour leader, Harold Wilson, now as tired and beleaguered as his…

420. Britain in 1974: Thatcher Enters the Ring (Part 4)

The horrific Guildford Pub Bombings of Saturday 5th October 1974 sent shockwaves through Britain, worsening the sense of crisis sweeping through the nation. It cast a dark shadow over the election campaign due to take place five days later. The future had rarely seemed grimmer, with a general sense…

418. Britain in 1974: The Crisis Election (Part 2)

Three days after one of the most devastating IRA attacks launched upon British soil, the Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath called an election, in circumstances that had never been more dire. Running against him was the veteran Labour leader, Harold Wilson, now as tired and beleaguered as his…

Britain's Worst Prime Minister

Could Liz Truss be Britain's worst Prime Minister? As the political scene in the UK hurtles into further disarray, Dan gets together historians Tim Bale, Catherine Haddon and Robin Eagles to put forward who they think has been Britain's worst Prime Minister over the centuries. Anthony Eden, Edward …

Andrew Bridgen | Exposing The Corruption Behind Closed Doors (Part 2)

Andrew Bridgen returns to Society 2.0 for Part 2 of his conversation, discussing his time in Parliament, political influence, government spending and some of the controversies he encountered during his career. Andrew reflects on his early warnings over HS2, his conversations inside Westminster and…

Harold Wilson Part Three: From Triumph to Defeat, 1963 - 1970

In October 1964, Harold Wilson achieved a lifelong ambition. The boy from Huddersfield who had once stood outside Number 10 Downing Street was now Britain's Prime Minister. After thirteen years of Conservative government, Wilson promised to modernise Britain through the “white heat of the technolog…