The Edition: War of the Windsors
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4.4 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
For his cover piece in The Spectator Freddy Gray asks who will win in the battle between the Waleses and the Sussexes. He is joined by historian Amanda Foreman to discuss the fallout Harry and Meghan's new Netflix documentary (01:00).
Also this week:
Should the House of Lords be reformed or even abolished?
This is the question James Heale considers in the magazine. He is joined by Baroness Fox of Buckley to unpack Gordon Brown's recommendation to do away with the second chamber of Parliament (13:14).
And finally:
In the books section of The Spectator Chloë Ashby reviews Con/Artist, the memoir of notorious art forger Tony Tetro. She is joined by Tony and investigative journalist Giampiero Ambrossi, who co-authored to book (31:53).
Hosted by William Moore.
Produced by Oscar Edmondson.
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| 0:00.0 | The Spectator magazine combines incisive political analysis with books and arts reviews of unrivaled authority. absolutely free. Go to spectator.com.uk forward slash voucher. |
| 0:26.2 | Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator. Each week we look at three |
| 0:35.3 | pieces from the magazine with the writers behind them. I'm William Moore, |
| 0:39.5 | the Spectators Features Editor. On this week's episode, I'll be talking about the War of the Windsors, |
| 0:45.3 | Labour's plans for the House of Lords, and the secrets of art forgery. First up, Freddie Gray looks |
| 0:52.1 | at the Royal Knockout between the Waleses and the Sussexes. |
| 0:56.1 | He joins me now with Royal Commentator Amanda Foreman. |
| 0:59.9 | Freddie, the new Netflix documentary, Harry and Megan, was released today on the day of recording. |
| 1:06.0 | Can you start by giving us your reaction? |
| 1:08.3 | Is it as incendiary as the palace might have feared? |
| 1:10.6 | Well, I know the sort of intelligent or... by giving us your reaction? Is it as incendiary as the palace might have feared? |
| 1:17.8 | Well, I know the sort of intelligent or proper things say now is that you shouldn't watch it because you're just feeding the monster and you shouldn't do that. |
| 1:22.0 | But I couldn't help myself. |
| 1:23.7 | And I also thought if I'm going to write pieces about it, then I must watch it. |
| 1:26.9 | So I watched it fairly early this morning, not on the dot, but about an hour after it was |
| 1:32.5 | dropped. And I think it, I recommend people watch it actually, because I think it is comedy gold. |
| 1:39.8 | I think it is extremely funny. Obviously, they don't, Harry and Megan don't realise how funny it is, |
| 1:47.3 | but I do think possibly some of the editors are in on the joke because otherwise I don't |
| 1:52.2 | understand how they could have made them look quite so ridiculous. Do you have an example of |
| 1:56.6 | the ridiculousness of... Yeah, I mean, so the opening scene, or one of the opening scenes, is Megan with a towel |
| 2:03.3 | on her head, sort of looking upset, but hamming it up terribly. |
| 2:09.8 | There's this sort of awful jazz music. |
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