{"id":242225,"date":"2025-10-26T14:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T14:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242225\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T14:59:07","slug":"private-passions-the-prime-minister-sir-keir-starmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242225\/","title":{"rendered":"Private Passions &#8211; The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sw-text-body-copy sw-pt-4 sw-text-secondary\">Available for 29 days<\/p>\n<p class=\"sw-text-body-copy sw-whitespace-pre-line sw-pt-4 sw-text-secondary\">The Right Honourable Sir Keir Starmer is the seventh Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his political career, he was a barrister and served as Director of Public Prosecutions. He was elected as a Member of Parliament in 2015 and became Labour leader in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>A former Guildhall School of Music scholar, Sir Keir Starmer is a flautist but also played piano, recorder, and violin in his youth.<\/p>\n<p>He shares his love of music including works by Beethoven, Mozart, Shostakovich and Brahms.<\/p>\n<p>Presenter: Michael Berkeley<br \/>\nProducer: Clare Walker<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/m002l09n\" aria-label=\"Programme Website of The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer\" data-testid=\"programme-website-link\" class=\"sw-group sw-inline-flex sw-items-center sw-pt-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Programme Website<\/a>Show less<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Available for 29 days The Right Honourable Sir Keir Starmer is the seventh Labour Prime Minister of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-242225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}