{"id":660071,"date":"2013-05-24T10:07:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T14:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=621a4273e1312b0c17051f29fa90309f"},"modified":"2013-05-24T10:07:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T14:07:08","slug":"news-story-former-cabinet-secretaries-talk-about-their-time-in-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/660071","title":{"rendered":"News story: Former cabinet secretaries talk about their time in office"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The films, which are part of the Cabinet Confidential series<\/a>, contain interviews with Robert Armstrong, Robin Butler, Richard Wilson, Andrew Turnbull and Gus O\u2019Donnell. They all talk about what happened behind the scenes whilst working as the Prime Minister\u2019s most senior civil servant.<\/p>\n

\u201cCabinet secretaries are among the rarest of rare breeds\u201d explains contemporary British historian Lord Hennessy, who carried out the interviews along with political historian Anthony Seldon. \u201cThey have discretion built into the calcium of their bones. So a chance to talk to them on the record across the whole range of their special calling is an occasion to be savoured\u201d.<\/p>\n

All of the films were produced by Queen Mary, University of London in partnership with Number 10.<\/p>\n

Film launch event<\/h2>\n

The first two films were launched at an event at Downing Street, with Lord Armstrong and Lord Butler.<\/p>\n

In the first film, Lord Armstrong recalls events during his time working with Lady Thatcher.<\/p>\n

Lord Armstrong on Margaret Thatcher<\/a><\/p>\n

In his interview, Lord Butler talks about the bombing of the Grand Hotel, Brighton in 1984 and the IRA mortar attack on Downing Street in 1991.<\/p>\n

Lord Butler: Government under attack<\/a><\/p>\n

The launch of the films coincides with the publication of the National Archives\u2019 first tranche of Cabinet Secretary papers (1936-1951)<\/a> .<\/p>\n

Further films will be published on 10 Downing Street YouTube channel<\/a> in the coming months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The films, which are part of the Cabinet Confidential series, contain interviews with Robert Armstrong, Robin Butler, Richard Wilson, Andrew Turnbull and Gus O\u2019Donnell. They all talk about what happened behind the scenes whilst working as the Prime Minister\u2019s most senior civil servant. \u201cCabinet secretaries are among the rarest of rare breeds\u201d explains contemporary British […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}