Matt Chorley with John Sergeant talking about Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors

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Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors 50 Places That Changed British Politics.
Watch Matt for a riotous, fun, razor sharp trot through the unlikely locations that have decided our national fate. From an opportune dental appointment clearing John Major’s path to Number 10, to the town halls, coffee shops, desolate hillsides and beach huts where politicians changed history - most of the time without meaning to.
'F *** ing brilliant. I would describe it as like a bag of political nuts - moreish and fabulously salty' JOE LYCETT
Forget Westminster bust-ups and PMQs, some of the key events that have shaped modern British politics happened not in the cloisters of parliament or Downing Street's many corridors of power, but in car parks, village halls and seaside resorts where the mundane have played host to the mighty.
From Pitt the Younger's Putney Heath duel to finding Margaret Thatcher a voice coach on a train, Harold Wilson's 'Scilly' season holidays to John Major's dental appointment clearing his path to No10 - these (and many more) are the places where chance meetings, untimely deaths and snap, sometimes daft, decisions changed the course of politics.
Matt Chorley has spent almost two decades covering Westminster, interviewing prime ministers, mocking ministers and chronicling the serious, and sometimes unintentionally absurd, events which act as unlikely turning points in the direction of a nation.
Illustrated by award-winning political cartoonist Morten Morland, Planes, Trains and Toilet Doors combines Matt's insider-knowledge, smart analysis and detailed research with his background in comedy to create an hilarious history of how politics actually happens.