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King George VI and stories from Africa

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2012

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Denis Judd explains the appeal of King George VI and Gus Casely-Hayford tells the remarkable story of a golden African kingdom. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I think what he is aware of is the power of the monarchy as a symbol as a unifying factor.

1:17.6

He plays that card, I think, very well.

1:19.7

That was Dennis Judd on King George I 6th.

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And the gold that comes out of that region is of an incredibly high quality and huge amounts of it too.

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That was Gus Casley Hayford on the Asante Kingdom.

1:52.8

Georgia 6th, second son of King George 5th, came to the throne in 1936 after his brother, Edward VIII, abdicated.

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