You might think you know Boris Johnson. Adam Fleming, the chief political correspondent at the BBC, certainly thought so. But it turns out there’s a lot that even avid politicos might not know about the man who has run the country for the past three years – and how he fought his way to that position.
Fleming’s eight-part series for BBC Sounds, entitled simply Boris, starts at the very beginning – the birth of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, in Sixties New York – and takes us to the present day. In each episode, a panel of guests are invited to recount their experiences of knowing, observing or working with Johnson: biographers, journalists, politicians, aides. They might rehash some well-worn ground – Johnson’s old school reports, perhaps, or maybe his fabricated quotes on the front page of the Times, or the two opposing columns he wrote to resolve his own internal battle over Brexit – but the net effect is a much fuller, more detailed picture of the man than headlines and soundbites usually provide.
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