Audio slideshow: Gladstone's legacy

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It is 200 years since the birth of Liberal statesman and four times Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone - and for the BBC Radio 4 series Beyond Westminster Michael Crick travelled to the family estate in Flintshire.

He spoke to the Liberal leader's great-grandson, Sir William Gladstone, and Peter Francis, the warden of nearby St Deiniol's, Library, which houses thousands of WE Gladstone's books.

Archive images courtesy Getty Images. Music courtesy KPM Music.

<a class="inlineText" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pdkbt">Beyond Westminster</a> can be heard on BBC Radio 4 at 1102 GMT on Saturday 26 December.

Slideshow production by Paul Vickers and Paul Kerley. Publication date 25 December 2009.

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