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I can see vast changes coming over and out peaceful world. Wait up heavals, terrible struggles,

wars such as one cannot imagine. And I tell you, London will be in danger,

London will be attacked, and I shall be very prominent in the defence of London.

I see further ahead than you do, I see into the future. This country will be subjected somehow

good for a moment in invasion. By what means I do not know, but I tell you I shall be in command

of the defence of London and I shall stay in London and England. Dominic, no question who that was

because the impression was absolutely spot on, that was of course Winston Churchill. But Dominic,

I'm playing a trick because he didn't actually sound like that because when he said that he was

16, he was a house and he was looking into the future. And it's a reminder, so if we, you know,

with words we say the child is father to the man, the idea of Churchill as the savior of his nation

was there in the great man's head, perhaps right from the very beginning. And so you suggested

it might be fun to do not, because we haven't actually done any episodes focused on Churchill

but to do one, looking at young Churchill, the making of the man. Yes Tom, so that was 1891, the summer

of 1891 and Churchill was a hero. He had gone to chapel. It's a funny story, he'd gone to chapel

even song and he and his friend Merlin Devons who went on to become a diplomat. They went back to

their boarding house and they were just sort of messing around as teenagers are just chatting and

they talk about what they're going to do when they grow up and I think Merlin Devons says, well,

I'll probably be a diplomat like my father. And Churchill, as you're a cany impersonation

captures, basically said, I'm going to say the empire. And of course, if it was anybody else,

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