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David Lloyd George: life of the week

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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David Lloyd George regularly features in lists of Britain’s greatest prime ministers. Born in Manchester and raised in rural Wales, the Liberal luminary helped lay the foundations of the modern welfare state and went on to lead the nation during the final two years of the First World War. But there is far more to Lloyd George’s life and career, as Professor Richard Toye tells Jon Bauckham in this episode of our 'Life of the Week' series. The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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where leading historians delve into the lives of history's most intriguing and significant

0:39.0

figures. David Lloyd George is a name that frequently features in lists of Britain's greatest

0:47.1

prime ministers. Born in Manchester and raised in rural Wales, the Liberal Luminary helped to lay

0:53.5

the foundations of the modern welfare

0:55.4

state and went on to lead the nation during the final two years of the First World War.

1:00.7

But there's far more to Lloyd George's life and career, as Professor Richard Toy tells John Borkham

1:06.2

in today's episode of our Life of the Week series. Firstly, Richard, thanks for joining me on the History Extra podcast.

1:12.7

My pleasure.

1:13.4

Now, today we're going to be talking about the life of David Lloyd George.

1:16.8

But before we get properly started, I just wondered whether you could give us just a very,

1:21.1

very brief summary.

1:22.6

Who was he in a nutshell?

1:24.4

Well, he was Liberal Prime Minister of Britain between 1916 and 1922. He had a reputation

1:32.1

as the man who won the war, somebody who came in a crucial moment of World War I and was in charge

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