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Best-selling author and former Home Secretary Alan Johnson wants to make the world a better place. In his new podcast he asks some of his favourite people how to do just that.
Guests include Stuart Lee, Bryony Gordon, James Dean Bradfield, Rory Stewart, Gloria De Piero and Jenny Kleeman. Alan invites them to discuss their lives and careers and to suggest one idea - big or small - that might change the world for the better.
Alan Johnson is one of our most popular and respected political figures and as well as being an award-winning author and broadcaster and a lifelong fan of Queens Park Rangers. As Members of Parliament go, he also has a surprisingly good taste in and obscure knowledge of music. Alan was Home Secretary (June 2009 – May 2010), Health Secretary (June 2007 – June 2009) and MP for Hull West (May 1997 – May 2017). He was General Secretary of the Communication Workers Union (which he joined as a postman) before entering Parliament as Labour MP for Hull West and Hessle in 1997. He left Westminster in 2017 for Yorkshire, where he still lives with his wife.