Winston Churchill: From Failures to Finest Hour

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🗓️ 5 September 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Churchill is one of the great figures of history and this totemic figure is often cited as one of the greatest British figures of all time. However, whilst his achievement during the dark days of the Second World War is unquestionable, much of the rest of his career had much more to do with failure than success. Geoffrey Wheatcroft, journalist and author of Churchill's Shadow: An Astonishing Life and a Dangerous Legacy, joins Dan for this episode of the podcast. They discuss Geoffrey's radical reappraisal of Churchill's life and work and the myth that continues to shape our view of one of the most complex figures of the 20th Century.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, welcome, welcome to Dan Snow's History.
0:04.7	We've got the big man back on the podcast today.
0:07.3	We've got Winston Churchill, a life that is constantly being re-evaluated is source of
0:14.1	constant fascination, drama and import for all of us, such an extraordinary life lived.
0:22.0	Jeffrey Wheatcroft turns attention to Churchill in a new book called Churchill Shadow.
0:28.0	Jeffrey's a British journalist, author and historian, he writes for all sorts of different
0:32.4	publications and he has now written this about Winston Churchill.
0:36.8	And it's a bit of a re-appraisal.
0:38.7	We talk about 1940 when Churchill is widely regarded to have saved his country, but we
0:44.7	also talk about other moments in his career when he experienced failure as well.
0:51.6	Winston Churchill is at the centre of the cultural wars, the history wars that we're
0:55.3	fighting in Britain and America at the moment, so it always makes him interesting.
0:59.0	Person to talk about here from people on different sides.
1:01.6	You've also got podcasts on this network featuring Andrew Roberts, who's written many highly
1:05.3	acclaimed.
1:06.3	Bargrafies of Churchill, tense Savo, far more positive you have Churchill than Jeffrey
1:09.6	Wheatcroft does.
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