Once you've wrapped up this podcast, how about trying a very British cult?

What happens if the person you trust with your future isn't what you think they are?

I did feel the whole time he was watching me Yeti. I saw a footprint and that really gave me gusmas.

Or people who knew me. Emme, I remember every secret, every lie. I'm the only one who knows the truth.

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A man, it was said, who did as much as any single American outside of FDR and outside of uniform

to get America to join with Britain to defeat the greatest threat to freedom the world has ever known.

The man was John Gilbert Winant, the New Hampshire politician who was to help seal the so-called special

relationship between Britain and America during the Second World War, when he came to London

as Ambassador for President Franklin D Roosevelt and helped broker the deal that brought

the USA into the fighting.

His life is the choice of my guest this week, Matthew Barzan, the current American ambassador to Britain, described

as a tech-savvy Obama insider. In other words, ambassador, you're seen as something of a modernizer.

Your adopted home is Kentucky, and to coin a phrase, of a in the tall grass. Is that a Kentucky expression?

Maybe so. I don't know. I had never heard it before, but thank you so much for having me and

please call me Matthew.

You've chosen one of your predecessors, a man who was in London at one of the most important points in our history.

He came in 1941 and stayed five years until the end of the Second World War.

You went to the same New Hampshire school as he did, St Paul's in Concord, New Hampshire.

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