How to Be Foreign Secretary (1998)
Michael Cockerell talks to all of the surviving people to hold the post of Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs including the current incumbent, and invites the viewer to imagine their life in the position.
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Michael Cockerell
as Self - Narrator
Idi Amin
as Self (archive footage)
Idi Amin Dada (30 May 1928 – 16 August 2003) was a military leader and President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Amin joined the British colonial regiment, the King's African Rifles, in 1946, and eventua...
Robin Cook
as Self
Robert Finlayson Cook was a British Labour Party politician, who served as the Member of Parliament for Livingston from 1983 until his death, and served in the Cabinet as Foreign Secretary from 1997 u...
Douglas Hurd
as Self
Douglas Richard Hurd, Baron Hurd of Westwell, CH, CBE, PC is a British Conservative politician who served in the governments of Margaret Thatcher and John Major from 1979 to 1995..
David Owen
as Self
David Anthony Llewellyn Owen, Baron Owen, CH, PC, FRCP is a British politician and physician. He served as Foreign Secretary as a Labour Party MP under James Callaghan from 1977 to 1979, and later led...
Malcolm Rifkind
as Self
Sir Malcolm Leslie Rifkind KCMG QC is a British politician who served in various roles as a Cabinet minister under Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major, including Secretary of State for Sc...