Project Details

Category: Documentary Series (4×60’)

Series Director: Clara Glynn

Series Producer: Nicolas Kent

Associate Producer: Simon Finch

Executive Producer: Samir Shah

Commissioner: BBC

About

Alan Clark, the former Conservative MP, author, diarist and historian, fronted an unapologetically personal history of the British Tory party from 1922 to the present day. The series featured interviews with many leading politicians and civil servants of the period, including the former Lord Chancellor, Quintin Hogg, who entered parliament in 1938; Anthony Nutting, Eden’s Foreign Office Minister who resigned during the Suez crisis, and David Hunt, Churchill’s Private Secretary in the early 1950s

An Oxford Television Company production for the BBC

EP2

In the press

Madly, irresistibly, giddyingly, wonderful

Sunday Times

Beautifully made

New Statesman

Timing is everything and the timing of Alan Clark’s History of the Tory Party is little less than sublime… Impeccably researched… skilful

Evening Standard

Very engaging

Times

Alan Clark’s superb reconstruction of the Tory scene….will leave many Conservatives wondering where that ruthless lust for power… has gone.

Sunday Times
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