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The Rest Is History

239: Young Churchill: Born to Lead (Part 1)

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🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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‘The child is the father of the man.’ In the first episode of this mini-series on Young Churchill, Tom and Dominic explore the early life of Winston Churchill. They discuss the cruelty of his parents, his deeply imbued sense of destiny, and the razor sharp wit of the future Prime Minister. Join The Rest Is History Club (www.restishistorypod.com) for ad-free listening to the full archive, weekly bonus episodes, live streamed shows and access to an exclusive chatroom community. *The Rest Is History Live Tour 2023*: Tom and Dominic are back on tour this autumn! See them live in London, New Zealand, and Australia! Buy your tickets here: restishistorypod.com Twitter:  @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:47.0

I can see vast changes coming over a now peaceful world.

0:51.0

Weight up evils., terrible struggles. Wars such as one cannot

0:56.8

imagine. And I tell you, London will be in danger. London will be attacked. and I shall be very prominent in the defense of London.

1:07.2

I see further ahead than you do.

1:09.6

I see into the future.

1:12.2

This country will be subjected somehow to a tremendous invasion by

1:17.2

what means I do not know but I tell you I shall be in command of the

1:21.4

defensive of London and I shall shame London and England.

1:27.1

Dominic, no question who that was because the impression was absolutely spot on that was of course

1:33.1

Winston Churchill but Dominic I'm playing a trick because he didn't actually sound like that

1:38.8

because when he said that he was 16 he was a harrow and he was he was a harrow he was looking into the future and it's a reminder so if we you know with

1:48.8

wordsworth we say the child is father to the man the idea of Churchill as the savior of his nation was there in the

1:57.8

great man's head, perhaps right from the very beginning. And so you suggested, didn't't you that it might be fun to do not not

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