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Hillsdale Dialogues

Churchill’s My Early Life, Part Eight

Hillsdale Dialogues

Hillsdale College

News, Education, Courses, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Larry P. Arnn, President of Hillsdale College, joins Hugh Hewitt on the Hillsdale Dialogues for his series on "Churchill the Writer." On this episode, Dr. Arnn and Hugh continue their discussion of My Early Life, which covers Winston Churchill’s life from 1874-1904.

Release date: 13 June 2025 

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0:00.0

Every week, Hillsdale College President Larry Arne joins Hugh Hewitt to discuss great books,

0:11.1

great men, and great ideas. This is Hillsdale Dialogues, part of the Hillsdale College

0:18.1

Podcast Network. More episodes at podcast.

0:21.5

Hillsdale.edu or wherever you find your audio.

0:30.3

Morning, glory, evening, grace, America.

0:32.6

Bonjour.

0:33.0

Hi, Canada.

0:33.8

I'm Hugh Hewitt.

0:34.5

That music means that the Hillsdale dialogue is underway. I will be back live on Monday. Dr. Larry Ar Hugh Hewitt. That music means that the Hillsdale Dialogue is underway. I will be back

0:38.6

live on Monday, Dr. Larry Arran, my guest for this edition of the Hillsdale Dialogue. He and I are

0:44.6

wrapping up. We are in London as we speak, and we'll be back on our respective home turfs come

0:50.4

Monday. But we wanted to tape before we left so that we would keep the momentum going on

0:55.2

my early life, an episode about Winston Churchill and the Boer War, which is really quite an

1:01.8

amazing adventure story. It could be fiction, but it begins in the Cape Colony. And Dr. Iron,

1:09.9

if you could just talk a little bit about the Cape Colony,

1:13.1

I've got a map to show you the best map of the time.

1:17.5

The Cape Colony is founded by the Brits many hundred years earlier.

1:23.2

The boars come from Denmark, and they come down there, and they farm the land in the Cape Colony.

1:29.1

And then they go over to that orange area, people are watching on the Salem News Channel, called the Transvaal and the Orange Free State.

1:37.8

And they're surrounded by British colonies at this point.

1:41.6

There's Zulu land is on their west, and in Rhodesia is to their north, and there's a

1:47.8

protectorate there in the Cape Colony.

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