Heseltine: A Life in the Political Jungle part 1

After Michael Heseltine announced his retirement from the House of Commons and to tie in with the publication of his memoirs 'Life in the Jungle' in September 2000, LWT made a two part documentary telling his story. Produced by Alexander Gardiner and presented by Jonathan Dimbleby (who were both involved in LWT's Sunday political talk programme).
Note that I had fairly poor TV reception at this point so the picture gets a bit choppy. We hope this doesn't spoil your enjoyment of the programme. Original transmission was 10 September 2000.
Part 2 is here: • Heseltine: A Life in t...

[@dennisbenn2065]

You've got a fantastic range of content, thanks for putting it all up. Looking forward to part 2 of this.

[@That_Random_Bloke]

This is great, thanks for uploading! Please upload part 2

[@zacbarness9520]

Great upload David! Immensely grateful if you could upload Part 2 too

[@splinterbyrd]

A client of mine says he sat next to Heseltine at dinner once and found Hezza to be a really boring man whose sole topic of conversation was...Michael Heseltine

[@BossySwan]

Sounds about right

[@christopherwrees]

Can't wait for part two.

[@alt-facts8832]

christopherwrees Me too. Normally don't have a problem finding continuous parts for documentaries but this appears to be the exception.

[@kaymumby46]

Thanks for the upload. Subtitles too 😍 This is like a reminiscence therapy for me! I’m intrigued by his “recollection” of Thatcher complaining about council house tenants leaving the underfloor heating on all day. Did council houses have underfloor heating? I seem to remember there was a brief period when new build council houses were heated by a community boiler and were complaining because they couldn’t turn the heating off in hot weather?

[@TomSanderson100]

Do you have Part 2? Many thanks

[@TelexToTexel]

Some excellent advice by Michael Heseltine: "You can survive eggs, but the bricks gets nasty" I thought Maggie Thatcher wasn't into red tape, yet she wanted Westland to be buried in red tape: "[Westland] should have been delt with by the economic committee of the cabinet, or the relevant sub-committee of that." I mean, if she wanted to get rid of red tape, why was there a sub-committee of the economic cabinet?

[@DlaudDlaud]

What happened to part 2

[@zulkiflijamil4033]

May 1979 the Tory is in office in power once again. Michael Heseltine really demonstrated his rare courage to convince the convention to give attention to the inner cities in particular Liverpool. And Heseltine - a life in the political jungle is excellent documentary. Thanks a lot for uploading this one. 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇

[@ricdavid7476]

i always thought he was a posh bloke who came from a monied background but he was lower middle class with aspirations of becoming upper middle class.

[@whatamalike]

Fantastic documentary series! I wonder though; was this only shown in the London/LWT area? Or was it networked on the whole of ITV? It seems like the kind of thing the network would inexcusably reject at the time despite being relevant on a national level.

[@DBIVUK]

It was networked - but at 10:45 PM on a Sunday so not exactly prime time.

[@whatamalike]

@@DBIVUK yeah I didn't exactly expect it to be shown at prime time haha. But it's good to hear it was networked.

[@borderlord]

Part 2?!?!

[@lkmichaelnattilin7723]

worth a watch . perhaps ANDY J S Might have part two

[@albacan]

Hessie and Maggie were enemies and it was fun to watch

[@thejigantics2641]

So much hairspray so little humility

[@stephenelkington4971]

Politicians are not noted for their humility. I'm no Tory but Hestletine's an intelligent and perceptive politician. He once said 'Labour will win power when it wants to'. When Labour elected Blair showed it wanted it wanted power - electing Corbyn was a sure sign it didn't want power. As a social democratic member of the Labour Party I hope and believe that the election of Keir Starmer as leader indicates that we are serious about wanting power again. Hestletine couldn't stand Thatcher - neither could I - that alone endears him to me.

[@stephenelkington4971]

Anti-semtic bullshit. The election result that your lot delivered for Labour last time should have ensured a lifetime of silence - but your verbosity is seemingly as eternal as your utter stupidity.

[@jazzhands7771]

@@stephenelkington4971 you talk some shite wee lad.

[@johnjones6601]

Hahaha 😅

[@123brownjames]

Not bad for a lad from Swansea

[@pikeywyatt]

i love brit politics then and now.

[@liamb8644]

At 3:00 in, he notably did all those things....except for prime minister! At least he became deputy though...

[@jazzhands7771]

Where's part 2

[@DBIVUK]

Here kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWa5pGano6-an6M

[@markjones4704]

tarzan they called him when he was defense minister

[@emizerri]

Draco Malfoy

[@lindymcbroom953]

lol

[@peter9180]

Terrible sound recording

[@calengr1]

14:05 MT assessment

[@pippipster6767]

Thumbnail looks like start of SS interrogation.

[@lamontcranston4436]

A breathtakingly arrogant individual, certainly not even close to Thatcher

[@briandelaney9710]

Lamont Cranston Thatcher was extremely arrogant and he’s right , she didn’t listen

[@willoke8]

He was Anti Thatcher

[@alexodonnell6191]

Arguably the greatest leader Britain never had...a touch of the Brian Cloughs perhaps ....

[@aaropajari7058]

Excellent connection.

[@paulmcgrath3248]

Bowie sequel photo

[@tomgibson6801]

the man who brought down the beast

[@patkeegan4473]

Evan Bernard pp

[@gavin4981]

Tnb

[@martm216]

A choice of Heseltine or Tebbit? Heseltine every time.

[@BossySwan]

What he did to Mrs Thatcher was a disgrace

[@aaropajari7058]

He did nothing more than she had done to Heath. Both asked for it politically.

[@BossySwan]

@@aaropajari7058 only one of them was any good and it certainly wasn’t Heseltine or Heath

[@aaropajari7058]

@@BossySwan Certainly not Heath. We'll never know about Heseltine.

[@jonathanbuss7538]

What she did to the British people was a disgrace.

What's wrong with a BIG ego!

[@bazboy24]

If there is one politician I hate its Michael Heseltine

[@roberthutchins4297]

You should know if there is one politician you hate. Count them ....

[@danarose6314]

I guess Thatcher restored some sort of English pride but she really was a disaster-the beginning of the unravelling of the UK now reinforced by Brexit.

[@lennylaa1686]

A ghastly snivelling liberal snob; never a Conservative,...brought down the greatest Prime Minister this country has ever known, the quite brilliant and resolute Margaret Thatcher. Part of the One Nation, No Nation clique of 50's genteel decline that paved the way for trade union tyranny and industrial decline of the 1960's and 70's. Central to the ineptitude of Heath and Major,...brought us the EU catastrophe, the ERM fiasco and disastrous 15% interest rates, boom and bust,...led to the Tories worst ever G/E defeat in 1997 to old demon eyes Blair. Heseltine, a fake and a fraud and a phoney.

[@Eric_200]

Well said my friend..spot on assessment.

[@lennylaa1686]

Heseltine? I agree!

[@splinterbyrd]

A client of mine told me he sat next to Heseltine at dinner once and found him incredibly boring; his sole topic of conversation was himself

[@nicolettacinci3053]

@@lennylaa1686 well said indeed.

[@drooky123]

Maggie the puppet master. although already ousted by her own party - she still had the final say by making sure her man Major got in to succeed her and kept that Heseltine OUT...!!! The Iron Lady to the very end :-))