The Friends of Harry Perkins
Written by Chris Mullin
Narrated by Michael Fenner
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Chris Mullin
Chris Mullin was elected labour MP for Sunderland South in 1987. He chaired the Home Affairs Select Committee and was a minister in three departments. He is the author of the A View From the Foothills and Decline and Fall(Profile) and the novel A Very British Coup (Serpent's Tail)
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