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Radio 3,21 Jan 2015,45 mins

Winston Churchill and Englishness

Free Thinking

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Historian David Reynolds, journalist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, political commentator Simon Heffer, and playwright David Edgar join Philip Dodd to discuss Churchill in the week of the 50th anniversary of Winston Churchill's death. They'll be re-evaluating Churchill through the lens of Englishness, and re-considering his writing - specifically A History of the English-Speaking Peoples - and his rhetoric. Producer: Ella-mai Robey Exotic England - The Making of a Curious Nation by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is published in March.

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