The Complete Reflections

Conversations with Politicians

Peter Hennessy, Robert Shepherd, Melvyn Bragg

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Chicago University Press
22 November 2020

Reportage & collected journalism; Politics & government; Press & journalism

On the BBC radio show Reflections with Peter Hennessy, the preeminent historian of British political life interviewed leading figures from the UK’s governing parties during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Bringing together transcripts of the collected interviews for the first time, The Complete Reflections features interviews the biggest names from the Thatcher era, the New Labour years, and the coalition government of the 2010s.

In The Complete Reflections, Peter Hennessy and Robert Shepherd provide not only an overview of the past three decades of British politics but also delve into the minds of those at the forefront of public life during times of great change. Hennessy’s deep knowledge and understanding of the lives and motivations of his interviewees, along with the obvious esteem in which they hold their interlocutor, leads to frank and revealing conversations in which the subject is not an object but an equal, giving these exchanges a unique veracity. The results are portraits of high authority, in which interviews become the chronicles that endure above all others—nothing less than the first draft of history.

By: Peter Hennessy, Robert Shepherd, Melvyn Bragg
Imprint: Chicago University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 47mm
Weight: 574g
ISBN: 9781912208982
ISBN 10: 1912208989
Pages: 800
Publication Date: 22 November 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter Hennessy is professor of contemporary British history at the Queen Mary University of London. His many books include Never Again: Britain 1945-51 and The Prime Minister: The Office and Its Holders since 1945. Robert Shepherd is a producer for radio and television based at Westminster. He is the author of Westminster: A Biography.

Reviews for The Complete Reflections: Conversations with Politicians

Compelling stuff. --Robert Peston Peter Hennessy's conversations with leading politicians of our time have reinvented the political interview. --Carolyn Quinn The art of the interview is to caress, coax, and cajole your subject into revealing more about themselves than they ever planned to do. Peter Hennessy does just that with verve and panache. --Nick Robinson