Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit. I promised you a month ago as part of

our Prime Minister's 300 series that we'd be interviewing a Prime Minister on this podcast,

and today I am. Gordon Brown was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, followed Tony Blair

in that office, who's also been on the podcast. He was the Chancellor at Chekka, the Finance

Minister for the UK before that, so he was no stranger to high office, and he then served

as Prime Minister during the economic catastrophe of 2008, 2009. He's now written a book about

how to save the world, really. What we can do to solve the great challenges we face. Initially

I was pretty concerned that someone who has held the highest political office in one

of the world's biggest economies feels the need to leave office and write a book about

what we should do about it. But as you'll hear, he talks about the problems that require

international agreement and cooperation, as distinct from the competence of national

leaders and the power they have within their own state. So it's a really interesting conversation

as I thought about where power lies, and what is the appropriate level to fix things that

need fixing? Neighborhood, regional, national or international. If I have grateful to Gordon

Brown for coming on, we got close with Theresa May. We got so close, but then how team

ghosted me. So must have been something I said. But if you're listening, please come

on the pod. It's a safe place. We can talk about your 10 year as Prime Minister. If you

wish to go back and listen to Tony Blair coming on the podcast, then all you've got to do

is go over to history here at.tv. It's like Netflix for history. It's like a huge digital

history site. We've got hundreds of documentaries on there. We've got thousands of podcasts on

there stretching way back into the past. There's some real gems on there. And you just

go to history at.tv for a very small subscription. You become a member. You become part of this

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