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Creating Churchill

Podcast Creating Churchill
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Creating Churchill offers a fresh perspective on the life and legacy of the soldier, writer, and war leader Winston Churchill. As we approach the 150th annivers...

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  • Creating Churchill: CONCLUSIONS
    In the final episode of the series, published on the 150th anniversary of Winston Churchill's birth, David and Russell bring together the main themes of the podcast, discussing Churchill's positive and negative character traits as seen through his contemporaries' eyes and responding to questions and comments sent in by listeners.     Creating Churchill offers a fresh perspective on the life and legacy of the soldier, writer, and war leader Winston Churchill. As we approach the 150th anniversary of his birth on 30th November, 2024, this podcast invites listeners to look beyond the now familiar bulldog image and rediscover the real Churchill, his strengths and his weaknesses, through the eyes of contemporaries he collaborated or clashed with.   Join Cambridge University historian David Reynolds and documentary producer Russell Barnes as they explore how Churchill’s extraordinary career and personality were shaped by relationships with the key figures in his life: friends, rivals, enemies and family.   Creating Churchill draws on David Reynolds’ book Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him, published by HarperCollins in the UK: https://williamcollinsbooks.co.uk/products/mirrors-of-greatness-churchill-and-the-leaders-who-shaped-him-david-reynolds-9780008439910/   And Basic Books in the USA:   https://hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david-reynolds/mirrors-of-greatness/9781541620209/      Produced and edited by Russell Barnes. Music by Rich Farnsworth. Digital marketing by Lee Mann. Sound engineering by Andrew Chappell. Hosted by Podbean.   Creating Churchill is a ClearStory ‘Creating History’ production. www.clearstory.co.uk   Follow the show on X or Instagram at @Creating_Hist   Send your comments, voice notes and questions to [email protected]  
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  • Creating Churchill: DEVOTED CRITIC
    In this episode, we come to the person who knew Winston Churchill better than any other, and for the longest time - his wife of 56 years, Clementine. Their marriage was a stormy but very successful double act. Through Clemmie's eyes, we see Churchill at his most vulnerable and insufferable…   Creating Churchill offers a fresh perspective on the life and legacy of the soldier, writer, and war leader Winston Churchill. As we approach the 150th anniversary of his birth on 30th November, 2024, this podcast invites listeners to look beyond the now familiar bulldog image and rediscover the real Churchill, his strengths and his weaknesses, through the eyes of contemporaries he collaborated or clashed with.   Join Cambridge University historian David Reynolds and documentary producer Russell Barnes as they explore how Churchill’s extraordinary career and personality were shaped by relationships with the key figures in his life: friends, rivals, enemies and family.   Creating Churchill draws on David Reynolds’ book Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him, published by HarperCollins in the UK: https://williamcollinsbooks.co.uk/products/mirrors-of-greatness-churchill-and-the-leaders-who-shaped-him-david-reynolds-9780008439910/   And Basic Books in the USA:   https://hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david-reynolds/mirrors-of-greatness/9781541620209/      Produced and edited by Russell Barnes. Music by Rich Farnsworth. Digital marketing by Lee Mann. Sound engineering by Andrew Chappell. Hosted by Podbean.   Creating Churchill is a ClearStory ‘Creating History’ production. www.clearstory.co.uk   Follow the show on X or Instagram at @Creating_Hist   Send your comments, voice notes and questions to [email protected]      
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  • Creating Churchill: OPPOSITION
    In this episode, we explore Winston Churchill's relationship with his political opponent Clement Attlee: Labour leader, wartime coalition colleague and eventually Churchill's successor as Prime Minister in 1945. Churchill's insults about Attlee have become so familiar now that they're almost cliche. Talking to American President Harry Truman in 1946, Churchill said of Attlee, ‘There is less there than meets the eye’. Truman replied: ‘He seems a modest fellow.’ Churchill fired back: ‘He has much to be modest about’.  Find out why Churchill could be so rude about Attlee behind his back.   Creating Churchill offers a fresh perspective on the life and legacy of the soldier, writer, and war leader Winston Churchill. As we approach the 150th anniversary of his birth on 30th November, 2024, this podcast invites listeners to look beyond the now familiar bulldog image and rediscover the real Churchill, his strengths and his weaknesses, through the eyes of contemporaries he collaborated or clashed with.   Join Cambridge University historian David Reynolds and documentary producer Russell Barnes as they explore how Churchill’s extraordinary career and personality were shaped by relationships with the key figures in his life: friends, rivals, enemies and family.   Creating Churchill draws on David Reynolds’ book Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him, published by HarperCollins in the UK: https://williamcollinsbooks.co.uk/products/mirrors-of-greatness-churchill-and-the-leaders-who-shaped-him-david-reynolds-9780008439910/   And Basic Books in the USA:   https://hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david-reynolds/mirrors-of-greatness/9781541620209/      Produced and edited by Russell Barnes. Music by Rich Farnsworth. Digital marketing by Lee Mann. Sound engineering by Andrew Chappell. Hosted by Podbean.   Creating Churchill is a ClearStory ‘Creating History’ production. www.clearstory.co.uk   Follow the show on X or Instagram at @Creating_Hist   Send your comments, voice notes and questions to [email protected]  
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  • Creating Churchill: NEMESIS
    In this episode: Winston Churchill’s spiky relationship with the Indian nationalist, Mohandas Gandhi - a relationship that shows up some of Churchill's blind spots and arguably puts him on the 'wrong side' of history. Churchill notoriously described Gandhi in 1931 as ‘a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a well-known type in the East, striding half naked up the steps of the Vice Regal palace’. Why was Gandhi such a bugbear for him?   Creating Churchill offers a fresh perspective on the life and legacy of the soldier, writer, and war leader Winston Churchill. As we approach the 150th anniversary of his birth on 30th November, 2024, this podcast invites listeners to look beyond the now familiar bulldog image and rediscover the real Churchill, his strengths and his weaknesses, through the eyes of contemporaries he collaborated or clashed with.   Join Cambridge University historian David Reynolds and documentary producer Russell Barnes as they explore how Churchill’s extraordinary career and personality were shaped by relationships with the key figures in his life: friends, rivals, enemies and family.   Creating Churchill draws on David Reynolds’ book Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him, published by HarperCollins in the UK: https://williamcollinsbooks.co.uk/products/mirrors-of-greatness-churchill-and-the-leaders-who-shaped-him-david-reynolds-9780008439910/   And Basic Books in the USA:   https://hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david-reynolds/mirrors-of-greatness/9781541620209/      Produced and edited by Russell Barnes. Music by Rich Farnsworth. Digital marketing by Lee Mann. Sound engineering by Andrew Chappell. Hosted by Podbean.   Creating Churchill is a ClearStory ‘Creating History’ production. www.clearstory.co.uk   Follow the show on X or Instagram at @Creating_Hist   Send your comments, voice notes and questions to [email protected]  
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  • Creating Churchill: THORN
    Creating Churchill offers a fresh perspective on the life and legacy of the soldier, writer, and war leader Winston Churchill. As we approach the 150th anniversary of his birth on 30th November, 2024, this podcast invites listeners to look beyond the now familiar bulldog image and rediscover the real Churchill, his strengths and his weaknesses, through the eyes of contemporaries he collaborated or clashed with.   Join Cambridge University historian David Reynolds and documentary producer Russell Barnes as they explore how Churchill’s extraordinary career and personality were shaped by relationships with the key figures in his life: friends, rivals, enemies and family.   In this episode, we turn to one of Winston Churchill’s most prickly and turbulent relationships - with the leader of the Free French during World War Two, and later French President, Charles de Gaulle. Were De Gaulle and Churchill, both men with explosive tempers and a deep pride in their respective national histories which for centuries had been at loggerheads, always bound to clash?   Send your comments, voice notes and questions to [email protected]   Find us on X & Instagram: @Creating_Hist   Creating Churchill draws on David Reynolds’ book Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him, published by HarperCollins in the UK: https://williamcollinsbooks.co.uk/products/mirrors-of-greatness-churchill-and-the-leaders-who-shaped-him-david-reynolds-9780008439910/   And Basic Books in the USA:   https://hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david-reynolds/mirrors-of-greatness/9781541620209/      Produced and edited by Russell Barnes. Music by Rich Farnsworth. Digital marketing by Lee Mann. Sound engineering by Andrew Chappell. Hosted by Podbean.   Creating Churchill is a ClearStory ‘Creating History’ production. www.clearstory.co.uk  
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Creating Churchill offers a fresh perspective on the life and legacy of the soldier, writer, and war leader Winston Churchill. As we approach the 150th anniversary of his birth on 30th November, 2024, this podcast invites listeners to look beyond the now familiar bulldog image and rediscover the real Churchill, his strengths and his weaknesses, through the eyes of contemporaries he collaborated or clashed with. Join Cambridge University historian David Reynolds and documentary producer Russell Barnes as they explore how Churchill’s extraordinary career and personality were shaped by relationships with the key figures in his life: friends, rivals, enemies and family. Creating Churchill is a ClearStory production.
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