The juxtaposition of last week’s Labour Party leadership elections, the centenary of the death of Keir Hardie and the availability of the last leader but one to helm the commemoration was a scheduler’s dream. For all his undoubted qualities, Gordon Brown has always seemed a shifty and somewhat evasive presence on television. Radio, on the other hand, offers a much more effective medium for his sincere, if slightly dogged, presentational style, and here, invited to talk about a man who could be regarded as his spiritual forebear, he was very much in his element.That this account of the life and times of the first Labour MP (10 September) was essentially a personal tribute could be divined from both locale and supporting cast. At various points, Brown was discovered in Govan, wh