Winston Churchill's doctor
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2020
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Many people were shocked when Winston Churchill's personal doctor published his memories of Britain's wartime leader in 1966. Churchill's family tried to halt the publication, but as historian Piers Brendon has been telling Vincent Dowd, the doctor, Lord Moran, had unique insights into the great man's behaviour.
Photo: Winston Churchill arriving in Downing Street, May 1940. Credit: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images.
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| 0:00.0 | Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless |
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| 0:21.0 | And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less |
| 0:24.9 | searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC sounds. This is the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:39.1 | I'm Vincent Dowd. |
| 0:40.8 | During the coronavirus pandemic, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson went into intensive |
| 0:46.8 | care to fight the illness. Later he thanked doctors and nurses who helped save him. Past occupants of Ten Downing Street generally |
| 0:56.0 | saw no reason to discuss their health. But in 1966, Lord Morin, Dr. Toussel Winston Churchill, published a controversial book with details of |
| 1:06.4 | Churchill's health as Prime Minister during World War II. |
| 1:10.5 | This is the BBC Home Service. |
| 1:12.3 | Popular on BBC Radio in World War II was the Brains Trust. |
| 1:16.0 | The panel was asked if Britain needed a national health service. |
| 1:21.0 | I think this is a difficult question. |
| 1:23.5 | The advantages of state medical service, firstly I think uniformity. |
| 1:29.7 | The speaker is Charles Wilson later to become Lord Moran and a major figure in the medical establishment. |
| 1:37.0 | During the war and later he was also Sir Winston Churchill's doctor. |
| 1:42.0 | Moran was first summoned to see him on May the 24th, 1940. |
| 1:47.0 | The Prime Minister had been in office for two weeks. |
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