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EPISODE · Aug 2, 2026 · 4 MIN

Whitcoulls Recommends: Dying Days and The Queen and Her Presidents

from The Sunday Session with Francesca Rudkin · host Newstalk ZB

Dying Days by Anthony Byrt. Set in May, 1945, near the end of the Second World War, Tito’s Yugoslav army and the Allies are in a tense standoff in the city of Trieste. When a group of Kiwi soldiers go missing, tensions escalate and the unlikely pairing of a British MI6 officer and a New Zealand intelligence officer is flung together to locate them. The Queen and Her Presidents by Susan Page. During Queen Elizabeth the Second’s time on the throne, 13 US Presidents came and went, from Harry S. Truman to Donald Trump. This is a fascinating and charming account of those relationships, full of anecdotes and history and reinforcing her reputation as a masterful diplomat and a woman of enormous influence.  LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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