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Stanley Baldwin's reputation deserves a rethink [audio 30min]

"It would have been much better had he never lived", was Churchill's scathing judgement of his fellow Conservative Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin. But Lord Biffen -- the former Tory Minister, John Biffen -- tells presenter Matthew Parris why he believes Baldwin's reputation deserves a rethink. With the journalist and Labour historian Anne Perkins.
Read entire article at BBC Radio 4 "Great Lives" 12 Sept 2006