30: The evolving role of Prime Minister

<p>It is 300 years ago this month that Robert Walpole became prime minister of Great Britain. In this edition of Black's History Week, Walpole's biographer, Professor Jeremy Black, talks to <em>The Critic</em>'s political editor, Graham Stewart, about how the role of prime minister evolved in its first one-and-a-half centuries.</p> <p>_</p> <p>Image: Portrait of Sir Robert Walpole. The first Prime Minister of Great Britain.(Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)</p> <br> <p>Music: Radetzky March by Human Symphony Orchestra (<a href="http://premiumbeat.com">premiumbeat.com</a>)</p> <br> <hr><p> See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>