Broadcast: Monday 22nd July 2019 (CBBC 5:30pm / on iPlayer from 15th June)

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Summary:  Dani Dyer becomes Rattus's political advisor as we look at everything from the birth of democracy to Margaret Thatcher having to change her voice so she would be taken more seriously.

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Sketches: Written by Ben Ward, Lucy Clarke, Dave Cohen, Max Davies, James Kettle, Jane McCutcheon, Steve Punt, Howard Read and Vivienne Riddoch

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• The birth of democracy in ancient Greece means equal rights for all citizens in Athens - with a few exceptions.

• Oliver Cromwell can't make up his mind about what to do with the captured King Charles I.

• The Speaker's chair used to have a special feature for especially long-running debates.

• Spencer Perceval's PR team work hard to come up with some fittingly historic final words for him to utter after he becomes the first (and only) prime minister to be shot.

• Song: Mambo No. 10 - Queen Victoria had ten different Prime Ministers heading up twenty different governments during her reign. But can she name them all? You bet she can...

• The rulers of Europe divide Africa between themselves in not the most civilised or dignified manner possible.

• Mahatma Gandhi explains his hunger strike in protest of the British occupation of India.

• A group of women struggle to hear and see the debate in the House of Commons from the Ladies' Gallery.

• Suffragette Emily Davison hides in the Houses of Parliament to enact a special plan.

• Margaret Thatcher has to change her voice in a bid to be taken more seriously in her political career.

• Song: (For the) Common People - Follow the story and struggle for democracy from Ancient Greece right up to modern day, for the common people.

Cast & crew: See Series 8 page

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