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Bestselling author Giles Milton joins Phil to discuss his incredible book THE STALIN AFFAIR about the ‘Big Three’ of the Second World War, and how this turbulent three way relationship shaped the world we live in today. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin were very different men with often clashing personalities and agendas. Behind their famous wartime summits lay a series of larger than life characters, double-crosses and plotting, epic drinking bouts and scandalous love affairs. And without all of this the Allies might have fallen apart and lost the war.
Phil also discusses the remarkable new family video released this week by Catherine, Princess of Wales, assesses what it means for the future of royal communications - and reflects on his former republican leanings and how his mind has been changed in recent years.
The article Phil refers to about the magic of monarchy is here https://thecritic.co.uk/the-kings-touch/
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Anne de Courcy returns to the podcast by popular demand to talk about her astonishing book on Coco Chanel, and the glamorous but dangerous society that she dominated.
From the most deprived of backgrounds Chanel conquered the worlds of fashion and perfume. With her fast friends, wealthy and titled lovers and her appetite for the best things in life she basically ran the ’scene’ in Paris and the French Riviera.
Then war, occupation and the systematic murder of French Jews presented her with some terrible choices.
Her decision to work with the occupying authorities and take a powerful Nazi lover has cast a shadow over her reputation. But was her ‘collaboration horizontale’ forgivable?
Here is the article in which Phil mentioned the BBC's 'Niven Car' business in the 1980s...
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With their non-royal but actually quite royal 'anti colonialism' tour of Colombia seen as a success by many media commentators, what message was Harry and Meghan trying to send to the world, to Britain and - especially - to their royal siblings and siblings in law in London?
And why did a curiously timed but well sourced profile appear on the front page of the London Times, pointing out that Prince William does not now intend to invite his own brother even to to the back row (or standing room only section) of his own coronation? With or without a plus one!
Simon Vigar, royal correspondent for Five News, joins Phil to pick over the events of the summer. Are Harry and Meghan creating a new brand for themselves as key global celebrities in the age of Woke, for example championing the cause of slavery reparations in former colonial societies? And in the context of the racism allegations made against Catherine, Princess of Wales - what damage does all this do to the ‘official’ branch of the royal family?
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We’re exploring a completely new era this week, so buckle up your sword belts, pour yourself a jug of mead and grab that armour! Phil’s guest today is Steve Tibble, author of a brand new book on the dark (and VERY dark) side of the Crusades, which he describes as being like a two hundred year pub fight! Steve is a great storyteller and his book is full of incredible insights into a time few of us know much about.
Before that Phil reports on the latest news from Montecito. As Harry pursues his own crusade against the British press, Meghan has been talking some more about her mental health problems and - maybe - dropping a few hints that she’d rather Harry move on from his legal battles back in the UK. Phil has always been more sympathetic to the Sussexes than Andrew - and most of our audience it seems. Is it time, he asks, for a bit more of our sympathy to go Meghan’s way?
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Our friend Gerald Posner returns to the podcast this week to discuss the recent attempt to kill former President Donald Trump. As the author of the definitive book on the JFK assassination - Case Closed - and many other books and articles on political violence in the USA, Gerald knows a huge amount about how Presidents are meant to be protected, and the conspiracy theories that soon spread when they are not. So what does he think really happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, and how will it affect the Presidential race?
Before that Phil reports on the latest American allegations about Prince Philip’s sex life. Was he in some way linked to the Profumo affair, which we explored in episode 15? And does it matter if the husband of Queen Elizabeth II had love affairs anyway, and why should we care?
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This week - in the first of his summer solo specials - Phil speaks to writer Mary Dearborn about her biography of the remarkable Peggy Guggenheim.
Peggy was probably the most significant collector of - and advocate for - the visual art of the 20th Century and she helped launch the careers of numerous internationally famous artists. She was also as renowned for her sexual exploits as her artistic ones, with a string of lovers and husbands that included some of the most famous men of the 20th Century, from Samuel Beckett to Max Ernst.
It’s a fascinating insight into a tempestuous, scandalous but also hugely important life.
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Andrew and Phil go where many royal reporters fear to tread, to reveal the shocking sexual allegations and dirty financial dealings that are alleged to lie behind the tangled and scandalous lives of numerous famous royal names.
What has Andrew found our about the secret lives of the royals as he researched his numerous books?
Improving access to information about the rich and powerful - especially the British royal family - is a theme of this podcast, and so we are keen to learn more about the ways that oligarchs, corporations and Princes seek to prevent reporters and writes doing their jobs. David Hooper, one of London’s top lawyers, joins us to discuss the scandalous use of so-called SLAPPs - law suits meant to intimidate journalists and restrict their access to the truth.
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Award winning reporter and investigator Stephen Davis joins us to explore the world of fake news, conspiracy theory and the weapons used by the rich and powerful to prevent truth from coming out.
In an extraordinary career Stephen has investigated some major scandals, including the sinking of the ferry ESTONIA and BA Flight 149 and the Gulf War.
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This week author and broadcaster Martin Bright joins Andrew and Phil to discuss what he believe is a little known but massive wartime cover up. As a new official report is due on the extent of Nazi crimes in the occupied Channel Islands during WW2, Martin believes that the suffering of Jewish and other prisoners on the islands has been hidden for many decades - partly because of official embarrassment at the amount of collaboration there.
In his book END OF THE BEGINNING Phil has written about another aspect of this story - the deportation of Jews from these British islands to Nazi death camps.
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The human dynamo that is Anne de Courcy returns to the podcast by popular demand after her brilliant interview about Princess Margaret and Tony Snowdon. This week she is speaking about one of her most successful books ‘The Viceroy’s Daughters’, the saga of Lord Curzon and his three talented, beautiful but often wayward daughters at the pinnacle of British and imperial high society in the first half of the 20th Century.
Overlapping love affairs, dalliances with dangerous young men and campaigning alongside the most charismatic politician of the age, Oswald Mosley, the former socialist turned fascist leader of Britain’s ‘Black Shirts’ in the 1930s - this is a story with everything and an incredible window into a glittering but also menacing world of privilege, power and decadence.
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This week we are lucky enough to speak with one of the most celebrated political writers of our age - Peter Pomerantsev, a former TV colleague of our Phil Craig. Peter had a ring side seat in Moscow for the rise of Putin and now advises leading politicians in Europe and the USA.
Born in the Soviet Union, and now a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics, Peter has written two hugely influential books about the modern Russian state and how it exploits disinformation and propaganda to oppress and threaten its own people and its neighbours: Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible (2014) and This Is Not Propaganda (2019).
His latest book, How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler (2024), is about Sefton Delmer, a British propagandist of the Second World War.
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In this special episode Andrew and Phil speak with Shauna Kay, whose family of Australian based podcasts, The Vintage Read, has been a huge success in the last year or so. We have many friends and ideas in common, along with a shared fascination for all things literary, scandalous...and very often royal!
We don't promise to agree all the time but if our audiences find these conversations entertaining and stimulating we intend to do more of them.
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Team Sussex has pulled off its first overseas tour with a super high profile visit to Nigeria, where Harry attended numerous events linked to the Invictus games and Meghan met with business and media leaders, hosted female entrepreneurs and generally looked and behaved like a Princess on the road!
Is this a model for what 'non royal royalty’ looks like for the future - a refreshing multi racial alternative to the old fashioned, and all white, House of Windsor? Or is it a cynical marketing exercise for a couple battered by a year of falling ratings amid widespread criticism for producing boring podcasts and selling second rate jam?
We’re joined once again by Simon Vigar, royal correspondent for Five News and a veteran of many royal tours. The Nigeria trip generated some great headlines and photos in the USA, so does that make it a success? Then our friend Dai Davies, former head of royal security, comes back to the pod with a very different perspective. Dai is very critical of the security background to the trip - and not at all sure that it was morally justifiable either.
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Phil's sympathetic comments on Prince Harry's reasons for fighting the press didn't persuade all of our audience last week, and the comments were lively!
Andrew and Phil react to that and discuss the latest evidence of the deep rift in the British royal family - Harry's visit to London and the non-meeting between him and his sick father King Charles.
Then historian Emma Southon joins us for a hugely entertaining and informative conversation about ancient Rome. Not about the Emperors and Generals that fill the history books, but the women whose stories get told a lot less often. And some of them were scandalous indeed!
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Clive Irving from the Daily Beast returns to the podcast to tell the story of the rise and fall of the British tabloid press, as Prince Harry’s ‘hacking’ case make its way through the London courts - with the possibility that Rupert Murdoch might finally be made to give evidence about it in a court of law.
The actor Hugh Grant has recently accepted a settlement from a Murdoch-owned company. He said that it was too expensive to carry on. And in the past - such as with Fox News in the USA - the Murdochs have tried to settle cases rather than see their patriarch give evidence under oath.
But could Harry be the man to change all that?
After a long career in newspapers, both tabloid and not, Clive tells Andrew and Phil that we maybe approaching a day of reckoning after decades of excess in the press!
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Not many books change the direction of an entire debate but, in 2023, Hannah Barnes’ ’Time To Think’ did just that. Through the testimony of whistle-blowers from inside the Tavistock hospital GIDS clinic, it revealed deep concern about the use of puberty blockers on gender-distressed children and how this approach - for which there is very little hard evidence - almost always led to further and irreversible hormone treatments and surgery.
When the Cass report into Britain’s treatment of gender questioning young people was welcomed by the UK Parliament last week, politicians from across the House of Commons praised Hannah for her work, and her book is credited with helping change the policy of the opposition Labour party (and possible next government) on this very divisive and controversial issue.
Hannah’s work explores how best to treat children who feel they are somehow living ‘in the wrong body’ and fear the changes of puberty. It asks whether the ‘instant affirmation followed by puberty blocking’ model is dangerous and might better be replaced by counselling and other therapies.
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Andrew Gold joins us this week to talk about his brand new book and his life as a 'heretic' podcaster and reporter. In recent months Andrew has established himself a leading voice in the anti-woke free speech broadcasting community, talking provocatively to natural rebels such as Robbie Williams, David Baddiel, John McWhorter, Jon Ronson, Amanda Knox, Richard Dawkins and Helen Lewis. Whether it's the excesses of the trans-rights movement, the campaign to close down debate about Covid or the politics of the great royal rift, Andrew has something interesting to say.
For his fascinating new book he interviewed dozens of people with secrets - including cult members, fraudsters and violent prisoners - and he writes powerfully about how our ideas about secrecy, trust and exposure help define our world.
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We're thrilled to get an hour to talk with Simon Vigar, one of Britain's most experienced royal correspondents and writers, who is now the Royal Correspondent for 5 News.
Simon has had a ring side seat for all of the great royal dramas of the last two decades, and he brings an unusual level of sympathy and insight to the role. Amongst other things Phil and Andrew ask Simon for his views on the long term impact on Harry of the 'briefing wars' of the early 2000s when very unflattering stories about Diana and other royals were - it is alleged - traded by the Palace for favourable coverage of Charles and Camilla.
Simon Vigar...
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Lady Colin Campbell joins Andrew and Phil again with an exclusive sneak peek at her new and explosive book on Meghan, Harry, the angry confrontations that shook the British royal family and Meghan's troubled family background. Based on her connections in the highest reaches of the British aristocracy - and her friendship with the Markle family - this is an uncompromising account of social climbing and what Lady Colin calls 'pathological narcissism' which challenges many of the stories told in the couple's Netflix series, to Oprah Winfrey and in Harry's book Spare.
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In a special sports themed episode Andrew and Phil are first joined by writer and former newspaper editor Chris Blackhurst to discuss his investigation into Manchester United - the world’ favourite football team - and how it has fared under the ownership of the American Glazer family, plus the wider role of big money in professional football (or ‘soccer' if you’re American!). Chris also talks about his fascinating work in the world of risk management.
Next up is Andrew Butler and Matt Russell from Tortoise Media who reveal an astonishing scandal of match fixing and intimidation in the normally sedate world of professional snooker. Spotted: snooker’s fight against match fixing...
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