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Comprising an hour long Archive Hour special on the comedy news quiz, presented by Matthew Parris and featuring interviews with chairmen and panellists past and present. Included in this set is a special edition of The News Quiz, in which current panellists answer questions on subjects from the past 25 years.

Chance Witness - An Outsider's Life in Politics written by Matthew Parris performed by Matthew Parris on CD (Abridged)

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ISBN: 9780141804736
Genre - Main: Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific: Politics
Duration: 240 mins
Length: Abridged
Author: Matthew Parris
Performer 1: Matthew Parris

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A frank autobiography by "The Times" columnist and ex-politican Matthew Parris. His childhood was spent on a variety of different countries as his engineer father moved jobs: Rhodesia, Cyprus, the Middle East and Jamaica. After Cambridge and Yale, he joined the Conservative central office ...

.... at roughly the same time (aged 26) he discovered he was gay. He worked for Michael Dobbs, Chris Patten and Mrs Thatcher (who famously fired him), before entering parliament himself.

Part participant, part bystander, Matthew Parris describes what it was like to be so close to the centre and remain an outsider.

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