Addiction, Breakdown and Finding Persevilience: Rory Interviews Alastair

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Friday, 16 October 2026 - 1 hour 8 minutes

How has Alastair managed to come back from some of the darkest places in his life, overcoming a breakdown while in the public eye? Is his obsession with work unhealthy, or necessary to achieving great things and what does it cost his family and those around him? And, beyond the personal, could the word he invented, “Persevilience”, be the antidote to populism, polarisation and post-truth?

Listen to Rory Stewart interviewing Alastair Campbell for part one of Persevilience where they discuss all of this and more.

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