If you could have a conversation with your younger self, what would you tell them?

Anonymity is our most valuable gift.

I'm Kirstie Young, and in Young again, I'll be asking my guests what honest advice they would give their past self.

Believe it when they say that loving yourself is the answer.

Among those joining me will be Jamie Oliver, Jeda Pinkett Smith and Mel B.

I knew that I had a voice and I knew that I wanted to say certain things and represent certain things.

Young again, with me, Kirstie Young.

Listen on BBC Sounds. Hello and thank you for downloading this edition of the Witness History Podcast with me Janice Friett.

Today I'm taking you about 40 years to 1984 to the start of a diplomatic dispute in the Arctic which became known as the

whiskey war. This was not a stunt. It was a deliberately planned, prepared action

where you also knew why you were doing it and how you would like to do it and the

consequence of that we had the Danish flag up there but I wrote in handwriting there in English.

Everyone passing here is welcome to take a glass of the bottle of the

cognac.

The whiskey war between Denmark and Canada was a several decades long tussle for the right to call a small uninhabited Arctic island their own.

And I've been speaking to two men on either side of the bloodless conflict.

We were doing quite well in trying to delineate the boundary between Canada and Denmark slash

Greenland back in the 70s.

Current assistant deputy minister for legal affairs in Canada,

Alan Kessel, remembers how it all began. When we came to the island, we just

looked at each other across the table and Canada said well this is

this is ours and we can go around it and they said well no that's ours and we

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