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Event number54 1 Dec 2021

Food, Family & Politics

Ed Balls (King's College London Professor & winner of the BBC’s Celebrity Best Home Cook), Angela Hartnett (Restaurateur and TV chef) & Rachel Johnson (Journalist and finalist on BBC’s Celebrity Best Home Cook) discussed their lives in food, family & politics.
Event number53 9 Nov 2021

The making of ‘Blair & Brown: The New Labour Revolution’

Liz Mermin (director of episode 2), and series consultants Prof. Jon Davis and John Rentoul were joined by Ed Balls to discuss the making of the recent BBC 2 series. 
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Podcast: Sir Tony Blair speaks to King’s College London students

In this special episode of the Strand Group podcast, Sir Tony Blair answered our students' questions on liberal intervention, the history of the Labour Party, how to deliver in government & more. With expert analysis from Dr Michelle Clement and John Rentoul.
20 April 2022
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Podcast: London, the state of the capital

In the third episode of The Strand Group Podcast we speak to the Chief Executive of the Centre for London, Dr Nick Bowes, Lecturer in London Studies at King's College London, Dr Jack Brown and the Leader of the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, Cllr Elizabeth Campbell.
23 March 2022
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