Munich - The Edge of War: Reappraising Chamberlain
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🗓️ 26 January 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Join James from the Warfare Podcast, as he chats to the writer and cast of the new film 'Munich - the Edge of War'. Set in 1938, the movie follows Chamberlain's attempts to appease Hitler, desperate to avoid another Great War. Joining James is author Robert Harris, along with lead actors George Mackay and Jannis Niewöhner. Together they discuss the historical significance of Chamberlain and Hitler's relationship, Munich's role in contemporary politics, and the pressures of having to learn German in a week. Munich – The Edge of War is in select cinemas now and on Netflix from January 21st.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, buddy. Welcome to Dan Snow's History It. It's time to listen in to one of our sibling |
| 0:05.9 | podcasts. We've got a growing family of podcasts here at History It. Some of them aren't |
| 0:08.8 | even about history anymore, but this one is, this is the Warfare Podcast, the Military |
| 0:13.2 | History Podcast. And we've got a big guess. Robert Harris talks about his re-appraisal |
| 0:17.9 | of Neville Chamberlain for the movie that is available now on Netflix. Even though Netflix |
| 0:23.8 | is a computing streaming service to History It, we don't know how to hold a grudge. We're |
| 0:28.4 | happy to celebrate them when they do something good. It's fine. They're a new blockbuster. |
| 0:33.1 | Munich, the edge of war, is being watched by all the people at the moment. And it is based |
| 0:37.2 | on Robert Harris's book. We have also got actor Janis Neville about his character and about the |
| 0:43.8 | position of young people in Nazi Germany and George McCoy. He was in 1917, after 1917. |
| 0:49.9 | He discusses how he learned German for this film. There you go. It's all going on. James has |
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| 1:20.8 | here is Robert Harris and others talking about Munich. Enjoy. |
| 1:29.2 | Hi Robert, hi Janis and hi George. Thank you for joining me on the Warfare podcast today. |
| 1:34.2 | How is everyone? How are we all doing? I'm doing all right. Thank you. I'm good. Thank you. Thank you |
| 1:39.6 | very much. I'm very well. Thank you. Thank you very much for having me. Now Robert, what is it about |
| 1:45.8 | this period in history? Traditionally seen as a foolish and weak moment for Chamberlain that |
| 1:52.8 | made you want to write a novel about it? Well, the more I read about Chamberlain and Munich, the more |
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