Bill Brand

• E1

  In

  First episode of a TV series about a young working-class lecturer with an uncompromising commitment to socialism who is elected to Parliament as a Labour MP.

  1976-06-07 · 60m
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• E2

  You Wanna Be a Hero, Get Yourself a White Horse

  Brand's first experience of Parliament leaves him feeling betrayed by the party.

  1976-06-14 · 60m
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• E3

  Yarn

  Brand defies the Whips and supports a work-in at a local factory, also attracting unwelcome attention in the Sunday papers.

  1976-06-21 · 60m
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• E4

  Now and in England

  Brand convinces the Minister for Employment to visit the work-in at Bryant's Mill.

  1976-06-28 · 60m
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• E5

  August for the Party

  Brand's agent forces him to spend the summer recess working in his constituency to regain his popularity.

  1976-07-05 · 60m
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• E6

  Resolution

  Brand attends the Annual Conference, and turns down the job of Parliamentary Private Secretary to Minister David Last.

  1976-07-12 · 60m
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• E7

  Tranquillity of the Realm

  Brand surprises and alarms his colleagues on the standing committee for an anti-terrorism bill by using it as a platform from which to berate the Government.

  1976-07-19 · 60m
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• E8

  Rabbles

  Brand's love story with Alex ends, while he is censured by his constituency over his behaviour on the Prevention of Terrorism Act Committee.

  1976-07-26 · 60m
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• E9

  Anybody's

  Brand has agreed to be David Last's right hand man in his bid for party leadership.

  1976-08-02 · 60m
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• E10

  Revisions

  Brand joins the Fight to Work Campaign, after the election of a new leader from the right of the party.

  1976-08-09 · 60m
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• E11

  It Is the People Who Create

  Final episode. Brand gravitates increasingly to the fringes of politics to counteract the complacency of his colleagues.

  1976-08-16 · 60m
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