Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling.

Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

Piando Ferries, there is another way.

Hello everyone, welcome back to the history hit warfare podcast I'm your host

James Rogers and it was 81 years ago this week that Winston Churchill became

the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain and his calamitous handling of the Norway campaign.

On that very same week Adolf Hitler launched a monumental assault on Western Europe.

It's got to be one of the toughest first weeks in office for a Prime Minister in history.

We're marking this historic event with a podcast that I've dug out from the Dan Snow's history hit archive

and this is where he visited Churchill's biographer Andrew Roberts to look at some of the previously

unseen historical material that shed light on this great man. It must be you've written so many books about Churchill. Do you think there's still more we can say about this, Matt?

Fortunately, actually, yes, there is. Since the last major biography of him, there have been

41 sets of papers that have been deposited at the Churchill Archives in

Cambridge, including really important things like his daughter's 1940 diary, Mary

Sims's diary from 1940, which I think was wonderful.

The Hermante, the Queen, has allowed me to be the first Churchill

biographer to read her father's diaries.

And he had lunch with Churchill every Tuesday of the war and they talked

completely openly. The king trusted Churchill implicitly. He knew that he was

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