Creating Churchill: MENTOR

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, a relationship that gives us a window onto Winston Churchill’s early political career - when, in 1904, Churchill crosses the floor of the House of Commons to join the Liberal Party, he sits next to the Welsh firebrand David Lloyd George. In government after 1906, they become the Liberal government’s most dynamic ministers. But it’s a relationship that gradually sours as their personalities and politics begin to clash.   Send comments, voice notes and questions to [email protected]   Find us on X & Instagram: @Creating_Hist   Creating Churchill is a ClearStory ‘Creating History’ production. www.clearstory.co.uk   Creating Churchill draws on David Reynolds’ book Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him, published by HarperCollins and now out in paperback:  https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/mirrors-of-greatness-churchill-and-the-leaders-who-shaped-him-david-reynolds?variant=41228714770510