How to be Home Secretary

Michael Cockerell’s guide to the job of Home Secretary, where the incumbent is responsible for protecting the public from crime, running the security service, and directing government policy on nudist beaches, mad dogs and massage parlours. Transmitted on 24 January 1999. Interviewees: current and former Home Secretaries Jack Straw, Douglas Hurd, Roy Jenkins, Michael Howard, Kenneth Clarke, Robert Carr, Kenneth Baker, David Waddington, Merlyn Rees; civil servants Richard Wilson and Sir Brian Cubbon.