London Calling Asia: Morrison, Herbert Stanley, 1888-1965 in Personal call

Item

Edited Title

London Calling Asia: Morrison, Herbert Stanley, 1888-1965 in Personal call

Archivist's Original Title

London Calling Asia: Morrison, Herbert Stanley, 1888-1965 in Personal call

Original description

Herbert Morrison, MP and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, interviewed by Stephen Black in the series 'Personal Call', broadcast on the BBC's overseas service London Calling Asia, 28 June 1954.

MetadataURL

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Recording date of the original material

1954-06-19

Broadcast Date

1954-06-28

Country Name

United Kingdom

Recording place

United Kingdom

Resource Language

English

Performer/Speaker

Herbert Morrison MP
Stephen Black

Tags, Keywords

Parliament
Feature

Archivist Category

Spoken voice

Recording context

Radio Programme

Collection source citation

BBC: London Calling Asia

Holding Institution of Original Materials

British Library

Licensing Institution

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Accessing Institutions

British Library

Copyright Information

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Physical format

Shellac 33rpm

Original item number

1CE0001475

SEAH Identifier

BBC00016

Broadcast Topic

Politics

Description

Herbert Morrison, MP and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, interviewed by Stephen Black in the series 'Personal Call', broadcast on the BBC's overseas service London Calling Asia, 28 June 1954. BBC Summary:Black: Describes Morrison's room in House of Commons, where he now is. Notices despatch case marked "Foreign Secretary". Morrison: Moments of that office. Various offices from 1929. Born at Brixton, his father a local police constable. Educated elementary school and worked as a shop assistant as a boy. Interested in politics from age 16 or 17: studied the parties and their politicians. Night school: wide reading. Joined Socialist movement at 18: candidate for Lambeth Metropolitan Borough Council at 23 but did not get in. Lesson of that poll. Motivating desire to be of public service. Hates careerism: only aim is to be useful. Co-opted Mayor of Hackney at 32. Was secretary of London Labour Party then. Parliamentary career an "accident" - started with vacancy in South Hackney. Career in LCC: its leader from 1934-40. Personal life: marriage. Work on land in World War I as conscientious objector: discusses that decision. 1st office as Cabinet Minister: Minister of Transport in Labour Government 1929-31, member of Cabinet towards end. What Cabinet room looks like: layout of a meeting and procedure: final test in a decision always public interest. Civil Defence, Home Office. Night of blitz, 7th September 1940. Lived "on job" in Home Office during blitz. Problems of a Home Secretary: executions and reprieves: reaching a decision. Present home in Eltham, alone since wife died last year. Interests: reading, walking, driving car, television, writing and broadcasting. Last book just published Government and Parliament. Foreign Secretary one of most interesting jobs - dangerous, but glad to have had the experience. Future? Does not know, will "wait till it happens". 2 discs 4 sides 44 cm 33 rpm; shellac Label: BBC X 20584-20585. Broadcast BBC Far Eastern Service (London Calling Asia) 1954-06-28

Item sets

Sound Archive of BBC South East Asian Broadcasts

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