Thursday, January 20, 2005
Tony & June... posted by Richard Seymour
The Prime Minister has an ill-deserved reputation for running away from the tough audiences. However:Prime Minister Tony Blair is to appear in a fly-on-the-wall documentary for Channel 4's youth strand T4.
In the programme, Tony and June, he spends 24 hours with presenter June Sarpong.
The pair share a cup of tea at his Sedgefield home, have a pint in his local pub and attend one of David Blunkett's last press launches as Home Secretary in Sheffield.
The behind-the-scenes footage was shot shortly before Christmas.
Sarpong, who previously dated high-flying Labour MP David Lammy, will also interview Mr Blair in the studio.
And an audience of young people from across the UK will have the chance to question the Prime Minister on issues affecting them.
They will debate the war in Iraq, teenage sex and pregnancy, education and drugs.
It can't be an accident that the name of this documentary is startlingly close to that of a flimsy and humourless 1970s sitcom.
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