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EP. 05 Winston Churchill

Uncancelled History

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The Dream of Winston Churchill

Andrew Roberts talks about the odd dialogue story Churchill wrote in conversation with his dead father. In 1947, he's painting one day at Chart Hall when he sees a ghost of his late father Lord Randolph Churchill and they have a long conversation but Winston does not point out to him that he'd been instrumental in helping win the Second World War. So it's a fascinating thing because as I say, I think you can see Churchill's life very much as being an attempt to impress this long dead father. And each time the late father of Ghost of his father asks him about something, he asks him about the monarchy and he says it goes on.

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