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Rebel Lords

Episode 2 of 3

Episode two of the behind-the-scenes documentary returns to the House as the government threatens to trim the Lords' powers if they rebel again. But will they comply?

Episode two of the exclusive behind-the-scenes documentary returns to the House as the government threatens to trim the Lords' powers if they rebel again, but will they comply?

Rebellious peer Lord Dubs is on a crusade to push through an amendment to the Immigration Bill to allow unaccompanied refugee children into the country, and Admiral Lord West isn't happy about a public poll that has voted overwhelmingly to name a new polar research ship Boaty McBoatface.

Over the course of one year, Meet the Lords follows some of the larger-than-life characters that inhabit the House of Lords, one of Britain's oldest, most idiosyncratic and important institutions. For the first time, free-roaming cameras have been allowed to film inside the Lords Chamber and in its committees to capture moments that matter to the UK, but usually go unseen.

Featuring new people's peers, hereditaries and political grandees as they try to change or influence legislation, it follows their personal passions and clashes with the government, all in a gothic palace where centuries-old ceremony and tradition still dominate proceedings.
It is filmed over a year where the nation has been split over Brexit and a Conservative government is for the first time having to tackle a Lords chamber where the opposition outnumber them.

59 minutes

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Role Contributor
Narrator Gillian Bevan
Executive Producer Darren Kemp
Series Producer Emma Whitlock
Producer Tim Stirzaker
Director Tim Stirzaker
Composer Ty Unwin
Production Company Top Hat Productions Ltd

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