Now & Then with Robert Saunders: The Twists and Turns of the Special Relationship
Past Present Future
D&HR Media Ltd
4.7 • 747 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 1:08.2 | Hello, my name's David Rundsenman and this is past-present future, the History of Ideas podcast. |
| 1:15.0 | Today it's the second part of my conversation with Robert Saunders. |
| 1:19.4 | Last time, we talked about Winston Churchill's 1946 speech, the Iron Curtain speech, |
| 1:25.9 | and his understanding of Britain, America and the wider world. |
| 1:30.1 | Today, we're looking backwards and forwards from that date across 200 years of the Anglo-American |
| 1:37.1 | relationship, the so-called special relationship. What has America been to Britain? An inspiration, |
| 1:53.9 | an ally, a rival, A threat? Are they us? Are we them? Or are we and they something completely different? |
| 2:02.6 | Robert, in our last episode, we talked about a speech given by Winston Churchill in 1946 that for many people is a sort of embodiment almost of the UK-US relationship, sometimes |
| 2:09.5 | in the cliche, called the special relationship. It clearly was a very significant moment in that |
| 2:15.6 | relationship and it's come to shape some people's |
| 2:18.0 | imagination of what came next. And as we discussed, Churchill had a very particular vision of just how |
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