Tony Benn
An Audience with Tony Benn
4 November 08, 20.00-21.00
Colston Hall, Bristol
£15.00 / £12.00 (Colston Hall card)

To book, contact Colston Hall on: 0117 922 3686 or book online at: www.colstonhall.org

The veteran Labour politician Tony Benn will be talking about his life in politics and what he thinks about the changes in the Labour Party. Expect an evening of frank responses and entertaining political anecdotes.

Tony Benn was born in London in 1925 and retired from the House of Commons in May 2001, after fifty years in Parliament, the longest serving Labour MP in the history of the party, which he joined in 1942. He was a Cabinet minister in the Wilson and Callaghan governments from 1964 - 79, as Minister of Technology, Secretary of State for both Industry and Energy and President of the Council of European Energy ministers in 1977. An elected member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour party from 1959 - 1994, he was Chairman of the Party in 1971/2.

His published diaries in seven volumes cover the period from 1942-1990, and the next volume, ' Free at Last', from 1990-2001. The holder of seven honorary Doctorates from British and American universities, he has just been appointed as a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and is a regular broadcaster. In 1949 he married Caroline Benn, educationalist and author of the biography of Keir Hardie who died in 2000. They have four children and ten grandchildren.

This is a fully seated show in the stalls only.

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