The Conservatives have been demolished

Episode 898,   Jul 21, 2014, 01:56 AM

A moment of history, and no media captures the way it feels quite like radio.

'The Conservatives have been demolished’, announced John Humphrys on the 'Today Programme' on Radio 4 on the morning of 2nd May 1997, as Tony Blair swept to power in Labour’s biggest Parliamentary majority in history, ending almost twenty years of Conservative rule.