Shirley Williams Trailers

Heath vs Wilson: The 10-Year Duel TrailerA Marriage Made In Portsmouth TrailerCabinet Confidential Trailer

Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, CH, PC was a British politician and academic who represented the Liberal Democrats. Originally a Labour Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister, she was one of the 'Gang of Four' rebels who founded the Social Democratic Party in 1981. Her career in politics spanned more than 50 years, after she first entered Parliament as the Labour MP for Hitchin in 1964. She retired from political life in 2016, after leading the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords.

Most Popular Shirley Williams Trailers

Total trailers found: 5

Cabinet Confidential Trailer (2001)

17 November 2001

A revealing one-off documentary that provides an inside view of how Tony Blair and former prime ministers - including Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher and John Major - have run their cabinet, the highest decision-making body in the land.

Heath vs Wilson: The 10-Year Duel Trailer (2011)

25 May 2011

Harold Wilson and Edward Heath are two very different men equally overlooked by history, but they were the political titans of the era in which Britain changed for ever.

How to Be Prime Minister Trailer (1996)

22 September 1996

It begins with cheers but almost always ends in tears. Yet, as the election looms, competition for the top job grows ever more intense.

A Marriage Made In Portsmouth Trailer (2008)

02 March 2008

Twenty years ago the Liberal Party and the SDP united after a long and fraught courtship to form the Liberal Democrats.

Harold Wilson: A Life Trailer (1995)

24 May 1995

BBC obituary documentary written and presented by Anthony Howard. Broadcast on the day of the death of Harold Wilson, May 24th 1995.