Prime Ministers' Props

BBC Radio 4

Professor Sir David Cannadine explores political fame and image by looking at how an object or prop, whether chosen deliberately or otherwise, can come to define a political leader. Sir David looks at the significance of these props of power - what they mean and what they become, and what happens when, almost inevitably, Prime Ministers lose control of their image and their props take on a hostile meaning, very different from their original intentions.

Prime Ministers' Props

David Cannadine explores political fame and image by looking at how an object, or prop, can come to define a political leader