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The Cult of Churchill | Tariq Ali & Priyamvada Gopal

The Verso Podcast

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In a 2002 BBC poll, Winston Churchill was voted the greatest Britain of all time. How did he get reshaped into an icon of British exceptionalism? And what does that tell us about how power is wielded and how national memories are made? We take with Taric Ali and Priem Vardagopal about race, empire and the making of Britishness.

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