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17:24 GMT, Tuesday, 16 December 2008

Programme archive

Jon Sopel

Each Sunday Politics Show presents, reports and interviews on politics on BBC One.

Politics Show brings a new approach to the coverage of politics - from Downing Street to your street.

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Politics Show features - 2009

28 June 2009... MPs' second jobs


28 June 2009... Che Guavara photos


21 June 2009... LibDem donations


21 June 2009... Assisted suicide


14 June 2009... Commons Speaker controversy


14 June 2009... An insight into the role of the Commons' Speaker


14 June 2009... Political apprentice - Katie Hopkins


24 May 2009... Max Cotton's European election guide


24 May 2009... MPs pay offs and allowances


17 May 2009... Andrew Lansley interview

10 May 2009... MPs' expenses - your views


10 May 2009... Margaret Moran and MPs' expenses


26 April 2009... Margaret Thatcher cartoons


26 April 2009... MPs and the London Marathon


Network programme on 29 March 2009


Network programme on 22 March 2009


Network programme on 15 March 2009


Network programme on 08 March 2009


Network programme on 01 March 2009


Network programme on 22 February 2009


Network programme on 15 February 2009


Network programme on 08 February 2009


Network programme on 01 February 2009


Network programme on 25 January 2009


Network programme on 18 January 2009

Tony McNulty: 'Not reached the bottom yet' - 18 January 2009

Life after Woolies - 18 January 2009


Politics Show features - 2008


Network programme on 7 December 2008

Ed Balls: Cameron 'undermining the Speaker' - 7 December 2008

Editor's blog: Not goodbye - it's just au revoir... - 7 December 2008

Police: Mobile phone payments... - 7 December 2008


Network programme on 30 November 2008

Clegg: Ministers implausible or incompetent - 30 November 2008

Politics Max: Fuel allowance - the French Connection - 30 November 2008

Women and politics - a vital blend - 30 November 2008


Network programme on 23 November 2008

The Editor's blog - Licence to lobby... - 23 November 2008

Gordon Brown speaks exclusively to the Politics Show - 23 November 2008


Network programme on 16 November 2008

Darling: Economy stimulus needed quickly - 16 November 2008

Ann Widdecombe: How to survive in reality TV - 16 November 2008

Alan Johnson: Selection processes questioned - 16 November 2008


Network programme on 9 November 2008

The Editor's blog - Three little Piggies - 9 November 2008

Jemima Montagu's - Journal from Kabul - 9 November 2008

Alan Johnson: Selection processes questioned - 9 November 2008


Network programme on 2 November 2008

Political reform in America... - 2 November 2008

Why I vote - even when it doesn't matter... - 2 November 2008

Katon Dawson: a McCain man... - 2 November 2008

Peter Hain on Obama and Michael Howard on McCain - 2 November 2008


Network programme on 26 October 2008

Hutton: We could be there for decades - 26 October 2008

Scottish Executive e-mail revelations - 26 October 2008

Swinney - 'I'm considering a U Turn' - 26 October 2008

Cars - an electric future? - 26 October 2008


Network programme on 19 October 2008

Woolas rows back on immigration - 19 October 2008

The Editor's blog - 19 October 2008


Network programme on 12 October 2008

Nick Clegg calls for tax cuts - 12 October 2008

Joanne Segars: Pensions - "don't panic" - 12 October 2008


Network programme on 5 October 2008

Cameron: Economic situation a "national emergency".


Network programme on 28 September 2008

Yvette Cooper: Government to protect savers - 28 September 2008


Network programme on 21 September 2008

Charles Clarke: Gordon Brown should quit - 21 September 2008


Network programme on 14 September 2008

Politics Max - Fighting for Fred - 14 September 2008

David Miliband - No Leadership contest - 14 September 2008


Politics Show features - Spring 2008


Network programme on 13 July 2008


Network programme on 29 June 2008


Network programme on 22 June 2008


Network programme on 15 June 2008


Network programme on 08 June 2008


Network programme on 01 June 2008


Network programme on 18 May 2008

Elderly discrimination on 18 May 2008


Network programme on 11 May 2008


Network programme on 04 May 2008


London Mayor's profile

By-election fever


Network programme on 27 April 2008

Hague on Zimbabwe recount

Vince Cable on Lib Dem progress


Network programme on 20 April 2008

London's Mayor, your questions...

Rock Against Racism


Network programme on 13 April 2008

National fat dilemma

A cry for individual freedom


Politics Show - Spring 2008


Network programme on 16 March 2008

Cameron's warning

Overseas adoption


Network programme on 09 March 2008

MP's funding - that thorny issue...

Volunteering - the benefit to society - Baroness Neuberger

Theresa May: MPs 'increased' salaries?


Network programme on 02 March 2008

Wild Boars

I want a referendum campaign


Network programme on 24 February 2008

Hutton: 'personal respect' for Speaker

Max Cotton - Life begins at 60


Network programme on 17 February 2008

Green Room life...

Jacqui Smith - Sex offenders named?


Network programme on 10 February 2008

New York missive - Jon Sopel

Nick Clegg: Stop 'kow-towing to Chinese'


Network programme on 03 February 2008

Jesse Jackson: Iraq is key

The Politics Show - Happy Birthday to Us!


Network programme on 27 January 2008

Gordon Brown - "I'm no ditherer"


Network programme on 20 January 2008

NHS overspends on statins

Sweden's sex lessons

Sex survey - law to change?

Miliband: No Treaty referendum


Network programme on 13 January 2008

Paola Buonadonna's personal view of Scotland v England

Alex Salmond: Labour's 'systemic failure'


Politics Show features - 2007


Network programme on 09 December 2007

What future for circus animals?

Mark Littlewood's diary - LibDem leadership: what's the betting?

Health tourists could get refund


Network programme on 02 December 2007

What do children want..?

Mark Littlewood's diary - Lib Dem leadership: Cable fibre


Network programme on 25 November 2007

The Nick Clegg and Chris Huhne interview

Rolling back the NHS reforms?

Mark Littlewood's diary - update

Mark Littlewood's diary - Lib Dem leadership: voting begins

Michael Brown on prison reform


Network programme on 18 November 2007

The Nick Clegg and Chris Huhne interview

Mark Littlewood - Could there be a Nick Huhne?

Is coal about to make a comeback?


Network programme on 11 November 2007

Immigrant workers' check

Mark Littlewood - Take the fight to the party

Search and destroy the superbugs


Network programme on 04 November 2007

Mark Littlewood - Lighting the blue touchpaper

Lord West: ID cards will happen


Network programme on 28 October 2007

Mark Littlewood - Don't bore the voters

Paola Buonadonna - Tackling her fear of cars


Network programme on 21 October 2007

Mark Littlewood - So it's Clegg versus Huhne

Blunkett: More stop-and-search needed


Network programme on 14 October 2007

Changing social care?

What to do with 18 months extra?


Network programme on 07 October 2007

George Osborne: Brown "damaged"


Network programme on 30 September 2007

John Turner: Election - logistical nightmare


Network programme on 23 September 2007

The compulsory voting debate...

David Miliband: We must earn the right to govern


Network programme on 16 September 2007

Bill Rodgers: Disappointed in Campbell


Network programme on 15 July 2007

Report on the housing market in Germany

Yvette Cooper: Government back council housing


Network programme on 01 July 2007

Gordon Brown: Survey - A change for the better?

Hague: Tories may support terrorist measures


Network programme on 24 June 2007

Gordon Brown: 'No' to treaty referendum


Network programme on 17 June 2007

George Osborne: Referendum needed


Network programme on 10 June 2007

Kelly calls for changes to promote cohesion

Citizen Test


Network programme on 03 June 2007

What is 'emissions trading'?

Dog day... morning

Hain: 'Balance between individual liberty and security'.


Network programme on 20 May 2007

Darling points to nuclear power

Ian Readhead, Deputy Chief Constable of Hampshire Police: 'Orwellian' society

The politics of trees


Network programme on 13 May 2007

The Blair legacy vote...

The Blair decade survey

The Blair legacy around the country...

George Osborne attacks Brown's record on spin


Network programme on 06 May 2007

Reid: Standing down 'towards the end of June'

Derek Simpson: The concerns of the Trade Unions


Network programme on 29 April 2007

Salmond: I could work with Brown


Network programme on 22 April 2007

Cameron: 'Don't walk on the other side'

Network programme on 15 April 2007

Tony Blair defends his 10 year legacy

The Gary Barker Gallery...

Your PMQs...


Network programme on 25 March 2007

Alan Johnson - opportunity for renewal

Embarrassing election moments

Alan Johnson interview


Network programme on 18 March 2007

Embarrassing election moments

Margaret Becket interview


Network programme on 11 March 2007

Rifkind and Kent debate the Trident issue

The Slavery Question


Network programme on 04 March 2007

David Willets interview

The Labour leadership battle

Hilary Benn interview

Gill Dummigan - The Benefits Trap


Network programme on 25 February 2007

Overcrowded Britain

Hazel Blears interview

Trevor Phillips: inequality costs us all


Network programme on 18 February 2007

David Cameron - Law and Order

Gill Dummigan - Equal Pay


Network programme on 11 February 2007

Matthew Laban - How to be The Speaker

Carbon Capture

John Reid and George Osborne interview


Network programme on 04 February 2007

Boundary changes

Jon Goss interview

Paola Buonadonna - New threat to NHS finances...

Jon Cruddas interview

Dame Neville-Jones interview


Network programme on 28 January 2007

Tony Blair interview


Network programme on 21 January 2007

Ben Bradshaw interview

Andrew Lansley interview

Your pet packaging hates

In support of packaging - Jane Bickerstaffe Director of Incpen"


Network programme on 14 January 2007

John Hutton interview

Matthew Taylor - Re-writing the rule book

Your top Magnificent Seven Political Heroes result


Network programme on 10 December 2006

Iain Duncan Smith interview

Jim Murphy, Minister for Welfare Reform opinion piece

Vote for your Political Hero


Network programme on 03 December 2006

David Davis interview

Sian Berry interview

Meet the Neets feature


Network programme on 26 November 2006

Lord Drayson interview

Tobias Ellwood - Afghanistan

Military procurement


Network programme on 19 November 2006

Peter Hain interview

Nick Clegg interview

Young voters in the Isle of Man

Your guide to Asbos


Network programme on 12 November 2006

John Prescott interview

William Hague interview

Queen's Speech Bingo


Network programme on 05 November 2006

Tom Ridge interview

Jesse Jackson interview

Matt Frank, Iraq war vet interview

Network Programme on 29 October 2006

Gillian Hargreaves Ohio Diary

Mike Childs, Friends of the Earth, a personal view of a Climate Change Bill

Alan Whitehead MP, a personal view of a Climate Change Bill

David Cameron interview


Network programme on 22 October 2006

Mark Oaten's new prison regime - 22 October 2006

Does Prison Work? Professor Malcolm Davies - 22 October 2006

Son of Council Tax - 22 October 2006

Network programme on 15 October 2006

Network programme on 08 October 2006

Network programme on 01 October 2006


Network programme on 24 September 2006

Network programme on 17 September 2006


Network programme on 16 July 2006

Network programme on 02 July 2006


Network programme on 25 June 2006

Network programme on 18 June 2006

Network programme on 11 June 2006

Network programme on 04 June 2006


Network programme on 21 May 2006

Network programme on 14 May 2006

Network programme on 07 May 2006


Network programme on 30 April 2006

Network programme on 23 April 2006

Network programme on 02 April 2006


Network programme on 26 March 2006

Network programme on 19 March 2006

Network programme on 12 March 2006

Network programme on 05 March 2006


Network programme on 26 February 2006

Network programme on 19 February 2006

Network programme on 12 February 2006

Network programme on 05 February 2006


Network programme on 29 January 2006

Network programme on 22 January 2006

Network programme on 15 January 2006


Network programme on 11 December 2005

Network programme on 04 December 2005


Network programme on 27 November 2005

Network programme on 20 November 2005

Network programme on 13 November 2005

Network programme on 06 November 2005




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