Podcast Special: Charles Moore in conversation with John Humphrys

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🗓️ 23 October 2019

⏱️ 78 minutes

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The Spectator was delighted to host Charles Moore, author of an acclaimed three-part biography of the former prime minister, and John Humphrys, former presenter of Today, for a special conversation on recent history. They talk about politics from the fall of Margaret Thatcher to the Brexit era, the BBC's bias (or lack thereof), and much much more.

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0:00.0	This is Spectator Radio.
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0:13.9	Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage,
0:18.4	Charles Moore and John Humphreys.
0:24.0	Thank you.
0:26.2	Gosh, thank you very much indeed.
0:28.6	When this was set up, we sort of wondered who should, as it were, lead the conversation
0:35.5	or who should interview them.
0:37.2	We decided it was a conversation and not an interview.
0:41.2	And I'm rather relieved about that because I was on this very stage two weeks ago.
0:47.0	And I was being interviewed about my book by my old friend.
0:52.8	At least I thought he was my old friend, Justin Webb.
0:57.0	Yes, quite. And we have known each other for the best part of 30 years. And we had a,
1:04.0	I think, we had a tacit agreement that Justin would give me a nice, gentle, possibly slightly laudatory question to kick it off with nice, something like.
1:14.4	Instead of which, he said, so you've finished 33 years, are you going to keep being a miserable old bastard?
1:23.8	Or words to that effect.
1:26.7	And from then on it went downhill, and I
1:29.4	staggered off the stage, bleeding
1:31.2	from every... So it's not going to be like
1:33.4	that, is it, Charles? Thank you. Thank you, John.
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