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That's the Expl World War interview.

This time I'm joined by Dr. Alan Alport, the author of Britannet Bay, the epic story of the Second

World War, 1938 to 1941. Dr. Alport, the author of Britain at Bay, the epic story of the Second World War, 1938 to 1941.

Dr. Allport, how's it going today?

Very good. Thank you. Nice to be here.

Excellent. So we're going to talk about Britain in the 1930s. And we're discussing Britain in the

1930s. There are a lot of different ways to kind of approach the topic.

I'm going to choose the global approach first. So the British Empire, I really like it that in your

book, you kind of start your section on the British Empire with, I'm going to quote here,

it's difficult now to remember just what a permanent fixture the British

empire once seemed. So with that in mind, was the empire something that kind of normal people

even thought about, or had it moved into the kind of area where it was mostly only discussed

among political leaders and its sort of existence was just assumed among society.

Well, I think people, old and normal people were aware of it and not aware of it at the same time.

I mean, I think it's interesting what you just said there about the idea that it had sort of moved on

because I think the thing is, is that really the empire had always been

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