History's Greatest Speeches with Simon Sebag Montefiore
Dan Snow's History Hit
History Hit
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🗓️ 11 October 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Simon Sebag Montefiore joined me on the podcast to talk about history's greatest speeches. From Martin Luther King Jr. to John Boyega, from Churchill to Trump, we also discuss British institutions and their link to Empire.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, welcome to Dan Snow's History Hit. Simon C. Bagd Montefuri is one of the |
| 0:04.9 | biggest names in history publishing. He's brilliant historian, he's back. We got him |
| 0:08.5 | come up a little bit this autumn, this fall on History Hit. We've made a little documentary |
| 0:12.1 | with him, but this is a start of a ten. He's got a new book out, History's Greatest |
| 0:16.0 | Speeches, following the best-selling letters from History Book. We also chat about Jerusalem |
| 0:21.7 | because his podcast about the history of Jerusalem, which was just a stunning gallop through |
| 0:28.0 | thousands of years of history. That previous podcast, one of the most successful podcasts |
| 0:32.0 | we have ever broadcast on this network. So we caught up about Jerusalem, we talked about his new |
| 0:38.0 | book, and then he told me about his next book, which I can't tell you about, but it's super exciting. |
| 0:43.3 | So there you go, annoying, annoying little bit of gossip there for you. In the meantime, |
| 0:48.5 | here is Simon C. Bagd Montefuri. Simon, good to have you back on the podcast. |
| 0:59.8 | Great to be here, I'll see you. You know the one we did on Jerusalem is actually one of the |
| 1:02.8 | most successful, most popular, most listened to podcasts ever on history. That's a good |
| 1:07.4 | question. Because I've just done a read, exactly a new version of Jerusalem, and what I thought |
| 1:12.2 | was fascinating was about six months ago, just before lockdown, I was looking at this sort |
| 1:16.6 | of middle east. I thought like, actually, there's a new middle east emerging. And I thought that |
| 1:21.0 | they were going to sign pieces with, there was going to be a sort of new paradigm where without |
| 1:25.2 | solving the Palestinian problems, tragically, but nonetheless Israel was going to make new relationships |
| 1:30.6 | with the Gulf state, with Saudi Arabia. And so things were going to change radically. And so I |
| 1:35.6 | thought it was a good time to update Jerusalem. So it's still the same book, but it's got the last |
| 1:39.5 | 20 years added on. It's amazing seeing that as a student in the 90s, all anyone's basically |
| 1:44.7 | out sense was that all the big geopolitical problems have been solved. Largely China was beginning |
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