This week, we accompany Stephen Sawyer on a speeded-up saunter through the arrondissements; and Toby Lichtig in conversation with Rory Stewart at the Hay Festival.

'Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century', by Simon Kuper

'The Zone: An Alternative History of Paris', by Justinien Tribillon

'Politics on the Edge', by Rory Stewart

Produced by Charlotte Pardy

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In today’s episode on pivotal UK elections David talks to historian Robert Saunders about the first great Labour landslide of 1945 and how it changed Britain. Why did Churchill not get his expected reward for winning the war? How genuinely radical and popular was the Labour programme? What made the mild-mannered Attlee such an effective leader? And how did the Tories – and Churchill – manage to get themselves back in the game?

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Next time: 1979 and the advent of Thatcherism

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