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2 episodes with british foreign secretary
2 episodes with british foreign secretary
2 episodes with british foreign secretary
2 episodes with british foreign secretary
2 episodes with british foreign secretary
The British Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, has announced the suspension of negotiations with Israel on a new trade agreement - due to what he called its "intolerable" and "abominable" recent actions in Gaza. The World Health Organisation says two million people in Gaza are starving. As Israel allows some aid in after an eleven week blockade, the British government says it's nowhere near enough. Also on the programme: Tanzania detains two prominent human rights activists who had travelled to Dar es Salaam to observe an opposition leader's treason case. And we'll have an appreciation of a ballet maestro with an iron fist.(Photo: Britain's Foreign Minister David Lammy delivers a statement on the Israel and Hamas ceasefire deal, at the House of Commons, in London, Britain, January 16, 2025. Credit: House of Commons/Handout via REUTERS)
David Miliband, former British Foreign Secretary and now head of the International Rescue Committee, reveals their Emergency Watchlist for Humanitarian Hot Spots in 2025.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/tavis-smiley--6286410/support.
In the mid-1930s, there was still widespread hope across Britain that a major war could be avoided. That could be achieved, many believed, by international negotiation towards disarmament, and by collaboration to enforce the decisions reached. A body existed to achieve just that: the League of Nations. It called a major conference, chaired by Arthur Henderson, former British Foreign Secretary, former leader of the Labour Party. It set out with plenty of great intentions but achieved nothing. Too few countries were prepared to trust others enough to make the cuts in their armaments that might have made a real difference. Meanwhile, another British politician, this time a Conservative, Lord Robert Cecil, one of the architects of the League of Nations and president of the British association dedicated to supporting it, the League of Nations Union, was campaigning for international collaboration to give real force to decisions of the League or elsewhere, so that breaches could be genuinely and effectively punished. He organised an unofficial referendum in Britain, the Peace Ballot, completed in 1935, that showed how massively the British people supported efforts for peace. Sadly, though, that year, 1935, would be the peak of such efforts. Thereafter events would drive the world increasingly towards another war. Indeed, one of those events had already happened, as early as in September 1931: the Japanese invasion of the Chinese territory of Manchuria. Someone like the outstanding political cartoonist David Low would go so far as to identify that moment as the true start of the Second World War. That notion, with which this episode starts, rather suggests that efforts to prevent the Second World War reached their peak, only to fall away afterwards, when it could be argued that, actually, it had already started. Illustration: The Doormat, cartoon of 1933, by David Low. Music: Bach Partita #2c by J Bu licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has held talks with British foreign secretary David Lammy, calling for cooperation in trade, finance, green development and other areas.
Israeli tanks and troops conduct a new ground operation; the British Foreign Secretary meets with leaders in Bahrain and Jordan this week; China imposes taxes on imports of European brandy and the daughter of Singapore's founding father dies. Synopsis: A round up of global headlines to start your day by The Business Times. Written by: Lee Kim Siang / Claressa Monteiro (claremb@sph.com.sg) Recording engineer: Joann Chai Pei Chieh Produced and edited by: Lee Kim Siang & Claressa Monteiro Produced by: BT Podcasts, The Business Times, SPH Media --- Follow Lens On Daily and rate us on: Channel: bt.sg/btlenson Amazon: bt.sg/lensam Apple Podcasts: bt.sg/lensap Spotify: bt.sg/lenssp YouTube Music: bt.sg/lensyt Website: bt.sg/lenson Feedback to: btpodcasts@sph.com.sg Do note: This podcast is meant to provide general information only. SPH Media accepts no liability for loss arising from any reliance on the podcast or use of third party's products and services. Please consult professional advisors for independent advice. Discover more BT podcast series: BT Mark To Market at: bt.sg/btmark2mkt WealthBT at: bt.sg/btpropertybt PropertyBT at: bt.sg/btmktfocus BT Money Hacks at: bt.sg/btmoneyhacks BT Market Focus at: bt.sg/btmktfocus BT Podcasts at: bt.sg/podcasts BT Branded Podcasts at: bt.sg/brpod BT Lens On: bt.sg/btlensonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In a scathing report published tonight, the surgeon tasked by the PM to assess the state of the NHS says it's in a "critical condition". We ask if Sir Keir Starmer has a plan to fix the health service.Also tonight:With the US Secretary of State and British Foreign Secretary in town, Ukraine has urged them to allow the use of long-range missiles against targets inside Russia. The former Defence Secretary Grant Shapps tells us he's not worried about fears of escalation.And on the hunt for the missing blue plaques - as English Heritage calls for people to help track them down.
Eric welcomes back Eliot from his trip to the High North in Svalbard, Norway where he was attending a workshop on Nordic-Baltic views on European security. Eliot discusses the views of the Nordic countries vis a vis Russia, the role of climate change in the Arctic, and great power competition in that region. They also discuss Eliot's recent Atlantic piece on What Kamala Harris might face with regards to foreign policy if she is elected in November notably including: the dangerous world we face, the chronic underfunding of the nation's defense budget, and the priors of the Obama and Biden alumni who will likely populate a Harris administration. They discuss the lack of debate about national security issues so far in the Presidential campaign and the Reaganesque "mood music" on defense at the DNC with speeches on Thursday night by the Bulwark's own Adam Kinzinger, former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta quoting Reagan, and finally the Vice President's commitment to maintaining the strongest and most lethal military in the world. They discuss the British Foreign Secretary's statement announcing the suspension of some 30 odd licenses for British defense goods to Israel, its spectacular bad timing and what it might portend for the US-UK "special relationship." Finally, they discuss the situation in Ukraine including the Kursk incursion by Ukrainian forces, the marked but costly progress of Russian forces in Eastern Ukraine, the meaning of "strategic" terrain and what the Ukrainian theory of victory might be. Eliot's Piece in The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/kamala-harris-foreign-policy-challenge/679678/ Phillips OBrien on Strategy: https://open.substack.com/pub/phillipspobrien/p/strategic-is-more-than-lines-on-a Occupied Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfqRRHaFyJg Shield of the Republic is a Bulwark podcast co-sponsored by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.
AP correspondent Karen Chammas reports on the British Foreign Secretary's visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories.
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron just completed an official trip to all five Central Asian states. For Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan, this was the first time a British foreign secretary had ever visited. In this episode of the Majlis podcast, we look at Cameron's Central Asia tour, what he was offering to his hosts, and what he was able to accomplish during the trip. Joining host Bruce Pannier are guests Aijan Sharshenova, a research fellow at the Bishkek-based think tank Crossroads Central Asia; Ben Godwin, the head of analysis at PRISM Political Risk Management, who lived and worked in Kazakhstan for seven years and continues to monitor events there; and Luca Anceschi, professor of Central Asian studies at Glasgow University and author of several books on Central Asia.
While the British army rolled back the Ottoman Empire across the Middle East, the British Foreign Secretary was drafting a letter that held the promise of making the Zionist dream a reality.
The British Foreign Secretary, Lord David Cameron, speaks exclusively to Ukrainecast. He says he has ruled out western boots on the ground in Ukraine, but acknowledged that the "war will be lost if the allies don't step up".Today's episode is hosted by Lucy Hockings and Vitaly Shevchenko.The producers were Cordelia Hemming, Elliot Ryder, Arsenii Sokolov, and Rosie Strawbridge. The production crew was Lee Durant and Xavier Vanpevenaege. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.Photo credit: Tolga Akmen/EPA.
Israeli military action continues to devastate the civilian population in Gaza. A three-day siege at Al-Shifa hospital is ongoing, though thousands are sheltering there. The IDF claims the site is being used by "senior Hamas terrorists," saying it's killed ninety of them. The bombardment is pushing Gaza towards a devastating humanitarian crisis: A UN-backed organization reports that half of Gaza, more than a million people, is on the brink of catastrophic hunger. David Miliband is President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee. He is a former British Foreign Secretary and is himself a child of holocaust refugees. Also on today's show: Israeli Knesset member Ofer Cassif Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Day 629.Today, we bring you the latest updates from the frontlines, analyse the new British Foreign Secretary's visit to Kyiv and interview GP Now, a web-based virtual clinic joining Ukrainian doctors and medical professionals to Ukrainians inside the country - including the occupied areas - and around the world.Contributors:David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter.Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter.Maighna Nanu (Foreign Reporter). @Maighna_N on Twitter.Verity Bowman (Foreign News Reporter). @VerityBowman on Twitter. Rob Hicken (Head of GP Now). @GPNow_ua on Twitter.Spencer Cash (Senior Emergency Response Strategist). @spencerbcash on Twitter. Find out more: Subscribe to The Telegraph: telegraph.co.uk/ukrainethelatestEmail: ukrainepod@telegraph.co.ukSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
VYS0029 | If There's Something Strange In Your Neighbourhood - Vayse to Face to Face with Field Lines Cartographer and Bob Freeman: Halloween 2023 - Show Notes Four middle-aged men bravely join forces to confront ancient evils, spooks, spectres and ghosts - ok, so, Vayse did Ghostbusters last Halloween but instead, this year, Hine and Buckley welcome back master of the liminal soundscape, Field Lines Cartographer and the Occult Detective himself, Bob Freeman to sit around the virtual camp fire as they each tell a ghost story from their home towns. FLC tells a tale of Warwickshire plague pits and feelings of stalking dread in the dark, Hine recounts a gruesome murder in Preston which led to bloody revenge from beyond the grave, Bob spins a classic American yarn of haunted houses in the deep, dark woods of rural Indiana and Buckley tells of the spirit of a young boy who haunts the picturesque town of Great Corby bringing those who encounter him great fortune followed by certain death. The conversation also turns to whether ghosts are actually, really all that scary, the differences between ghost stories in the UK and the US, the nature of reality itself (of course, this is Vayse)... and digitally transported flies... (Recorded 10 October 2023) Thanks again to Keith for the show notes and thanks to everyone for listening - please tell a friend (or benignly neutral acquaintance) and ask them to do the same! Mark Burford/Field Lines Cartographer (FLC) - Links FLC on Bandcamp (https://fieldlinescartographer.bandcamp.com/) FLC/Castles in Space on Bandcamp (https://fieldlinescartographer-cis.bandcamp.com/music) FLC on Twitter (https://twitter.com/FLCartographer) FLC on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/field_lines_cartographer) FLC on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/flcartographer.bsky.social) FLC's Phases of This and Other Moons album (https://fieldlinescartographer- cis.bandcamp.com/album/phases-of-this-and-other-moons) Bob Freeman/Occult Detective - Links Occult Detective website (https://authorbobfreeman.wordpress.com/) Occult Detective on Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/occultdetectivebobfreeman) Occult Detective on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@occultdetective) Occult Detective on Twitter (https://twitter.com/OccultDetective) Occult Detective on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/occultdetective/) Occult Detective on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/occultdetective.bsky.social) Fire and Ice Miniatures Adventure Game, Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dynamiteent/fire-and-ice-the-miniatures-board-game) Vayse - Links Vayse website (https://www.vayse.co.uk/) Vayse on Twitter (https://twitter.com/vayseesyav) Vayse on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/vayseesyav/) Music From Vayse - Volume 1 by Polypores (https://vayse.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-vayse-volume-1) Vayse on Ko-Fi (https://ko-fi.com/vayse#checkoutModal) Introduction - Links The Addams Family (1964 TV series) Intro (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfawtDT945o) The Addams Family (1964 TV series) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Addams_Family_(1964_TV_series)) Halloween - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween) VYS0006 | Dreamtides - Vayse to Face with Field Lines Cartographer (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0006) Fox Mulder - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_Mulder) Dana Scully, Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Scully) VYS0017 | Occult Detective - Vayse to Face with Bob Freeman (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0017) INTERVIEW: Sara Frazetta and Bob Freeman continue the Frazetta family legacy with VAMPIRELLA: DEAD FLOWERS, Comicsbeat article (https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-sara-frazetta-bob-freeman-continue-the-frazetta-family-legacy-with-vampirella-dead-flowers/) Fire and Ice Miniatures Adventure Game, Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dynamiteent/fire-and-ice-the-miniatures-board-game) Frank Frazetta - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Frazetta) Mark's Spooky Story: Encounter on Bush Heath Lane - Links Harbury - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbury) Warwickshire - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwickshire) Meriden, West Midlands - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meriden%2C_West_Midlands) History of Harbury, Harbury Parish Council website (https://www.harbury-pc.gov.uk/history/) Fosse Way - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fosse_Way) Britain's Roman ‘Ghost Legions': And a Meditation on the Nature of Time and Space - Burning Blogger article (https://burningblogger.com/2017/10/31/britains-roman-ghost-legions-and-a-meditation-on-the-nature-of-time-and-space/) Knights Templar, Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar) Indiana Jones, Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones) Holy Grail - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Grail) Ark of the Covenant - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_of_the_Covenant) Napton on the hill - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napton_on_the_Hill) Temple End, Harbury; Our Warwickshire entry (https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/catalogue_wow/harbury-temple-end) Site of Preceptory of Knights Templar, Castle Park, Warwick, Our Warwickshire entry (https://www.ourwarwickshire.org.uk/content/catalogue_her/site-of-preceptory-of-knights-templars-castle-park) Knights Templar Warwickshire - website (https://knightstemplarwarwickshire.org.uk/) Knights Templar in England - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar_in_England) Wagstaffe School / Wagstaffe School House, Harbury; Historic England entry (https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/photos/item/IOE01/04028/20) Warwickshire Ghosts, Folklore and Forteana, Paranormal Database entry (https://www.paranormaldatabase.com/warwickshire/warwdata.php) Coventry - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry) Leamington Spa - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leamington_Spa) Aleister Crowley - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley) Crowley's Childhood Home - LAShTAL.com feature (https://www.lashtal.com/649-old-news/) Park Lane and Bush Heath Lane, Harbury (map) (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=park+lane+bush+heath+lane+harbury&t=newext&atb=v307-1&ia=web&iaxm=maps) Plague Pit - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_pit) Black Death - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death) Starless and Bible-Black – Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas - review by Mick Canning (https://mickcanning.co/2018/08/30/starless-and-bible-black-under-milk-wood-by-dylan-thomas/) Dylan Thomas - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Thomas) Under Milk Wood - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Milk_Wood) King Crimson - Starless (and Bible Black) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfR6_V91fG8) Psychic staring effect - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic_staring_effect) What causes that feeling of being watched - BBC Future article (https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170512-what-causes-that-feeling-of-being-watched) The Psychological Explanation for When You Feel Like You're Being Watched - The Cut article (https://www.thecut.com/article/the-psychology-of-feeling-like-youre-being-watched.html) The silent companions - explanations for ‘feelings of presence' - BPS.org article (https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/silent-companions) The fear frequency - Guardian Science article (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/oct/16/science.farout) by Mark Pilkington Paul Weston's website (https://www.paulwestonglastonbury.com/) VYS0023 | Mercurial, Mutable, Mysterious Something - Vayse to Face with Paul Weston (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0023) Mass psychogenic illness (Mass hysteria) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness) Can Dogs See Ghosts? What the Science Says - Reader's Digest article (https://www.rd.com/article/can-dogs-see-ghosts/) Ghost - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost) VYS0006 | Dreamtides - Vayse to Face with Field Lines Cartographer (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0006) Elemental - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elemental) Ghosts and Liminality: A Brief Introduction by George P. Hansen, Tricksterbook.com article (http://www.tricksterbook.com/ArticlesOnline/GhostsAndLiminality.html) The Wednesday Phenomenon - The Mothman Wiki article (https://themothman.fandom.com/wiki/The_Wednesday_Phenomenon) Understanding the New Moon and Its Effects On You - Yovada Life article (https://blogs.yovada.com/wellness/understanding-new-moon-effects/) Hine's spooky story: The Bannister Doll - Links Preston, Lancashire - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston%2C_Lancashire) Lancashire - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancashire) Ladywell Street, Preston (map) (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ladywell+street+preston&t=newext&atb=v307-1&ia=web&iaxm=maps) Shapeshifting - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapeshifting) Black dog (folklore) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_dog_(folklore)) Flagellation from Middle Ages to modern times (incl. England 1530 - 1967) - Wikipedia entry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagellation#From_Middle_Ages_to_modern_times) House of correction - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_correction) The Retributory Haunting of Bannister Doll - Beyond the Black Pool article (https://beyondtheblackpool.wordpress.com/2021/05/03/the-retributory-haunting-of-bannister-doll/) Bannister Hall (Preston) - Fairyist.com article (https://www.fairyist.com/fairy-places/north-western-fairies/bannister-hall-doll-preston/) Spine-chilling tale of Bannister Doll (newspaper cutting) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/rpsmithbarney/8434442994/) Holy Trinity Church, Preston (archive photos) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/rpsmithbarney/5133523294/) Snow Hill, Preston (archive photos) (https://www.flickr.com/photos/rpsmithbarney/8913342256/) Snow Hill, Preston (recent Google street view) (https://www.google.com/maps/@53.7618717,-2.7020833,3a,75y,7.8h,94.07t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sROOi7ogcT0f3JpOt-cIoMw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?hl=en&entry=ttu) Cautionary tale - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cautionary_tale) Haunted doll - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted_doll) Child's Play (1988 film) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%27s_Play_(1988_film)) Candyman (1992 film) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candyman_(1992_film)) Beetlejuice (1988 film) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetlejuice) Deal with the Devil (Faustian bargain) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_with_the_Devil) Bloody Mary (folklore), Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Mary_(folklore)) Lancaster Ghost Walk - Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/lancasterghostwalk/) Lancashire Ghosts, Folklore and Forteana, Paranormal Database entry (https://paranormaldatabase.com/lancashire/lancdata.php) York Ghost Walks and Tours, Visit York website (https://www.visityork.org/business-directory/category/tours-guides/ghost-walks-tours) Urban legends and myths - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_legends_and_myths) Bogeyman - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogeyman) Lyme Regis - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_Regis) VYS0017 | Occult Detective - Vayse to Face with Bob Freeman (https://www.vayse.co.uk/vys0017) Stone Tape Theory - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Tape_Theory) Are ghosts dangerous? Everything you need to know - Friendly Specter article (https://www.friendlyspecter.com/are-ghosts-dangerous-everything-you-need-to-know/) Why You Shouldn't Be Afraid of Spirits - Liveabout.com article (https://www.liveabout.com/should-you-be-afraid-of-ghosts-2594056) How Do We Explain Mysterious Spectral Scratches? - Stranger Dimensions article (https://www.strangerdimensions.com/2015/05/06/ghost-attacks-spectral-scratches/) X Files S3 E2 ‘War of the Coprophages” (cockroach on screen, still) - Reddit post (https://www.reddit.com/r/XFiles/comments/hrp2rs/shout_out_to_the_writers_for_having_a_cockroach/) The Fly (1958 film) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fly_(1958_film)) The Fly (1958) “Help Me!” scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U_1MqwuEMM) Bob's story: A Spectral Entity in Peoria - Links Mississinewa Lake Dam - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississinewa_Lake_Dam) Peoria, Miami County, Indiana - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoria%2C_Miami_County%2C_Indiana) Mississinewa River - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississinewa_River) Cliffs of the Seven Double Pillars, Miami County, Indiana - MountainZone.com entry (https://www.mountainzone.com/mountains/indiana/miami-in/cliff/cliffs-of-the-seven-double-pillars/) Seven Pillars of the Mississinewa, Atlas Obscura entry (photos) (https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/seven-pillars-of-the-mississinewa) “The Little People” of the Mississinewa, article on Bob's blog (https://authorbobfreeman.wordpress.com/2020/01/10/the-little-people-of-the-mississinewa/) Somerset - Indiana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset%2C_Indiana) Hellier (TV series) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellier_(TV_series)) Hellier (to watch) - Planet Weird TV website (https://www.planetweird.tv/hellier-season-1) Somerset, Kentucky - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somerset%2C_Kentucky) Raccoon - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccoon) Virginia opossum (North American opossum, possum) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_opossum) The early history of dress forms and mannequins - Dress Forms USA article (https://dressformsusa.com/blogs/posts/the-early-history-of-dress-forms-and-mannequins) Urantia Foundation - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urantia_Foundation) The Urantia Book - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Urantia_Book) Urantia Foundation website (https://www.urantia.org/) Carp - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carp) Legend Of Brigadoon: Mythical Village Where Time Stands Still - Ancient Pages article (https://www.ancientpages.com/2016/11/02/legend-of-brigadoon-mythical-village-where-time-stands-still/) Germelshausen (disappearing town) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germelshausen) House of Leaves (book) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves) House of Leaves (https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/isbn/9780375703768/)by Mark Z Danielewski Haunting of Hill House (book) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haunting_of_Hill_House) The Haunting of Hill House (https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-haunting-of-hill-house-shirley-jackson/2319357?ean=9780141191447) by Shirley Jackson Haunting of Hill House (TV series) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haunting_of_Hill_House_(TV_series)) Mediumship - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediumship) Invocation - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invocation) Evocation - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evocation) Beelzebub - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beelzebub) Buckley's story: The Radiant Boy - Links Cumbria - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbria) Great Corby - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Corby) Great Corby, Cumbria (map) (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=great+corby+cumbria&t=newext&atb=v307-1&ia=about&iaxm=about&iax=images) River Eden, Cumbria - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Eden,_Cumbria) Corby Castle - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corby_Castle) Fungus - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungus) Primary School - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_school) Chinese whispers (aka game of telephone) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers) Dinner lady (aka Lunch lady) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch_lady) Jack o' Lantern - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack-o'-lantern) Radiant Boy - Occult World article (https://occult-world.com/radiant-boy/) Henry Howard (historian) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Howard_(historian)) Deal with the Devil (Faustian bargain) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deal_with_the_Devil) Sizergh castle - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sizergh) Rheged - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheged) Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits by Rosemary Ellen Guiley - Goodreads page (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/829114.The_Encyclopedia_of_Ghosts_and_Spirits) Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits by Rosemary Ellen Guiley (https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/encyclopedia-ghosts-spirits/author/rosemary-ellen/) Rosemary Ellen Guiley - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Ellen_Guiley) Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stewart,_Viscount_Castlereagh) Acts of Union 1800 - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Union_1800) Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Decline and death - Wikipedia entry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stewart,_Viscount_Castlereagh#Decline_and_death) North Cray - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Cray) Loring Hall (country residence of British Foreign Secretary, Viscount Castlereagh, later Marquess of Londonderry), Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loring_Hall) Mania - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mania) Differences between US and UK ghost stories, experiences, and landscape - Links Stonehenge - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge) The Cabin in the Woods (2011 film) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cabin_in_the_Woods) The Hut in the Forest (German fairy tale) - Wikipedia page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hut_in_the_Forest) The Evil Dead (1981 film) - 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Day 552. Today, we bring you the latest news from the frontlines, analyse the impact of drone strikes on Russia and ask why the British Foreign Secretary is heading to China.Contributors:David Knowles (Host). @djknowles22 on Twitter.Dominic Nicholls (Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on Twitter.Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor). @FrancisDearnley on Twitter.Nataliya Vasilyeva (Russia Correspondent). @Nat_Vasilyeva on Twitter.Read Russia hit by largest drone attack of the war as military assets targeted, by Nataliya Vasilyeva: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/08/30/ukraine-largest-drone-attack-russia-military-assets-hit/Subscribe to The Telegraph: telegraph.co.uk/ukrainethelatestEmail: ukrainepod@telegraph.co.ukYou can vote for Ukraine: the Latest in the 'Listener's Choice' category of this year's British Podcast Awards: https://www.britishpodcastawards.com/votingSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
①Chinese Premier Li Qiang has met visiting U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo in Beijing. What has been achieved by both sides during Raimondo's visit in China? (00:53) ②British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has made a visit to China. What is the current state of UK-China relationship? (16:37) ③It's been two years this August 30th since the United States completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan. How has Afghanistan recovered from the 20-year-long war in the past two years? (22:43) ④The number of available jobs in the United States has dropped for the third consecutive month.(33:03) ⑤China's envoy to Japan has reiterated China's firm opposition to Japan's ocean discharge of nuclear-contaminated wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. (43:20)
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Mary Lou McDonald, Sinn Féin leader, on the party's withdrawal from talks on the protocol with the British Foreign Secretary after she was excluded from attending.
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Matthew O'Toole, SDLP MLA, on a meeting with the British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly regarding post-Brexit trading arrangements.
This week's episode has reportage and audio from the British Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, on security issues he personally eyewitnessed over the sakies of Abu Dhabi, Manchester United owners confirming they are putting the club up for sale which has specific interest for potential Middle East investors - and Abu Dhabi majority-owned Manchester City agree new terms with their manager, Pep Guardiola. We also have coverage of the first round of matches at the Qatar World Cup and exclusive content brought home from my trip to the Global Media Congress in Abu Dhabi. Exclusive audio actuality: British Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly. Duncan Drasdo, CEO Manchester United supporters' trust. Senior police officer, Abu Dhabi police “happiness patrol”. Pep Guardiola, Manchester City manager. Rishi Sunak, British prime minister.
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After a tumultuous three-year tenure, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that he will step down following a wave of resignations by lawmakers and government officials. With the nation's politics in turmoil, what comes next for Britain's leadership? Lord Hague of Richmond, former British Foreign Secretary, former leader of the UK Conservative Party and Teneo Senior Advisor, and Carsten Nickel, Teneo Managing Director and expert on Europe, join our host Kevin Kajiwara for an important update on the future of British politics, the reaction of foreign leaders to the crisis in Westminster, what's next for the United Kingdom on the world stage and the ramifications for global businesses.
In the spring of 1954, after eight years of bitter fighting, the war in Vietnam between the French and the communist-led Vietminh came to a head. With French forces reeling, the United States planned to intervene militarily to shore-up the anti-communist position. Turning to its allies for support, first and foremost Great Britain, the US administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower sought to create what Secretary of State John Foster Dulles called a "united action" coalition. In the event, Winston Churchill's Conservative government refused to back the plan. Fearing that US-led intervention could trigger a wider war in which the United Kingdom would be the first target for Soviet nuclear attack, the British Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, was determined to act as Indochina peacemaker - even at the cost of damage to the Anglo-American "special relationship". In Anthony Eden, Anglo-American Relations and the 1954 Indochina Crisis (Bloomsbury, 2019), Kevin Ruane and Matthew Jones revisit a Cold War episode in which British diplomacy played a vital role in settling a crucial question of international war and peace. Eden's diplomatic triumph at the 1954 Geneva Conference on Indochina is often overshadowed by the 1956 Suez Crisis which led to his political downfall. This book, however, recalls an earlier Eden: a skilled and experienced international diplomatist at the height of his powers who may well have prevented a localised Cold War crisis escalating into a general Third World War. Charles Coutinho, PH. D., Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, received his doctorate from New York University. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. He has written for Chatham House's International Affairs, the Institute of Historical Research's Reviews in History and the University of Rouen's online periodical Cercles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
In the spring of 1954, after eight years of bitter fighting, the war in Vietnam between the French and the communist-led Vietminh came to a head. With French forces reeling, the United States planned to intervene militarily to shore-up the anti-communist position. Turning to its allies for support, first and foremost Great Britain, the US administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower sought to create what Secretary of State John Foster Dulles called a "united action" coalition. In the event, Winston Churchill's Conservative government refused to back the plan. Fearing that US-led intervention could trigger a wider war in which the United Kingdom would be the first target for Soviet nuclear attack, the British Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, was determined to act as Indochina peacemaker - even at the cost of damage to the Anglo-American "special relationship". In Anthony Eden, Anglo-American Relations and the 1954 Indochina Crisis (Bloomsbury, 2019), Kevin Ruane and Matthew Jones revisit a Cold War episode in which British diplomacy played a vital role in settling a crucial question of international war and peace. Eden's diplomatic triumph at the 1954 Geneva Conference on Indochina is often overshadowed by the 1956 Suez Crisis which led to his political downfall. This book, however, recalls an earlier Eden: a skilled and experienced international diplomatist at the height of his powers who may well have prevented a localised Cold War crisis escalating into a general Third World War. Charles Coutinho, PH. D., Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, received his doctorate from New York University. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. He has written for Chatham House's International Affairs, the Institute of Historical Research's Reviews in History and the University of Rouen's online periodical Cercles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history
In the spring of 1954, after eight years of bitter fighting, the war in Vietnam between the French and the communist-led Vietminh came to a head. With French forces reeling, the United States planned to intervene militarily to shore-up the anti-communist position. Turning to its allies for support, first and foremost Great Britain, the US administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower sought to create what Secretary of State John Foster Dulles called a "united action" coalition. In the event, Winston Churchill's Conservative government refused to back the plan. Fearing that US-led intervention could trigger a wider war in which the United Kingdom would be the first target for Soviet nuclear attack, the British Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, was determined to act as Indochina peacemaker - even at the cost of damage to the Anglo-American "special relationship". In Anthony Eden, Anglo-American Relations and the 1954 Indochina Crisis (Bloomsbury, 2019), Kevin Ruane and Matthew Jones revisit a Cold War episode in which British diplomacy played a vital role in settling a crucial question of international war and peace. Eden's diplomatic triumph at the 1954 Geneva Conference on Indochina is often overshadowed by the 1956 Suez Crisis which led to his political downfall. This book, however, recalls an earlier Eden: a skilled and experienced international diplomatist at the height of his powers who may well have prevented a localised Cold War crisis escalating into a general Third World War. Charles Coutinho, PH. D., Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, received his doctorate from New York University. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. He has written for Chatham House's International Affairs, the Institute of Historical Research's Reviews in History and the University of Rouen's online periodical Cercles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history
In the spring of 1954, after eight years of bitter fighting, the war in Vietnam between the French and the communist-led Vietminh came to a head. With French forces reeling, the United States planned to intervene militarily to shore-up the anti-communist position. Turning to its allies for support, first and foremost Great Britain, the US administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower sought to create what Secretary of State John Foster Dulles called a "united action" coalition. In the event, Winston Churchill's Conservative government refused to back the plan. Fearing that US-led intervention could trigger a wider war in which the United Kingdom would be the first target for Soviet nuclear attack, the British Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, was determined to act as Indochina peacemaker - even at the cost of damage to the Anglo-American "special relationship". In Anthony Eden, Anglo-American Relations and the 1954 Indochina Crisis (Bloomsbury, 2019), Kevin Ruane and Matthew Jones revisit a Cold War episode in which British diplomacy played a vital role in settling a crucial question of international war and peace. Eden's diplomatic triumph at the 1954 Geneva Conference on Indochina is often overshadowed by the 1956 Suez Crisis which led to his political downfall. This book, however, recalls an earlier Eden: a skilled and experienced international diplomatist at the height of his powers who may well have prevented a localised Cold War crisis escalating into a general Third World War. Charles Coutinho, PH. D., Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, received his doctorate from New York University. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. He has written for Chatham House's International Affairs, the Institute of Historical Research's Reviews in History and the University of Rouen's online periodical Cercles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/southeast-asian-studies
In the spring of 1954, after eight years of bitter fighting, the war in Vietnam between the French and the communist-led Vietminh came to a head. With French forces reeling, the United States planned to intervene militarily to shore-up the anti-communist position. Turning to its allies for support, first and foremost Great Britain, the US administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower sought to create what Secretary of State John Foster Dulles called a "united action" coalition. In the event, Winston Churchill's Conservative government refused to back the plan. Fearing that US-led intervention could trigger a wider war in which the United Kingdom would be the first target for Soviet nuclear attack, the British Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, was determined to act as Indochina peacemaker - even at the cost of damage to the Anglo-American "special relationship". In Anthony Eden, Anglo-American Relations and the 1954 Indochina Crisis (Bloomsbury, 2019), Kevin Ruane and Matthew Jones revisit a Cold War episode in which British diplomacy played a vital role in settling a crucial question of international war and peace. Eden's diplomatic triumph at the 1954 Geneva Conference on Indochina is often overshadowed by the 1956 Suez Crisis which led to his political downfall. This book, however, recalls an earlier Eden: a skilled and experienced international diplomatist at the height of his powers who may well have prevented a localised Cold War crisis escalating into a general Third World War. Charles Coutinho, PH. D., Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, received his doctorate from New York University. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. He has written for Chatham House's International Affairs, the Institute of Historical Research's Reviews in History and the University of Rouen's online periodical Cercles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/world-affairs
In the spring of 1954, after eight years of bitter fighting, the war in Vietnam between the French and the communist-led Vietminh came to a head. With French forces reeling, the United States planned to intervene militarily to shore-up the anti-communist position. Turning to its allies for support, first and foremost Great Britain, the US administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower sought to create what Secretary of State John Foster Dulles called a "united action" coalition. In the event, Winston Churchill's Conservative government refused to back the plan. Fearing that US-led intervention could trigger a wider war in which the United Kingdom would be the first target for Soviet nuclear attack, the British Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, was determined to act as Indochina peacemaker - even at the cost of damage to the Anglo-American "special relationship". In Anthony Eden, Anglo-American Relations and the 1954 Indochina Crisis (Bloomsbury, 2019), Kevin Ruane and Matthew Jones revisit a Cold War episode in which British diplomacy played a vital role in settling a crucial question of international war and peace. Eden's diplomatic triumph at the 1954 Geneva Conference on Indochina is often overshadowed by the 1956 Suez Crisis which led to his political downfall. This book, however, recalls an earlier Eden: a skilled and experienced international diplomatist at the height of his powers who may well have prevented a localised Cold War crisis escalating into a general Third World War. Charles Coutinho, PH. D., Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, received his doctorate from New York University. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. He has written for Chatham House's International Affairs, the Institute of Historical Research's Reviews in History and the University of Rouen's online periodical Cercles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies
In the spring of 1954, after eight years of bitter fighting, the war in Vietnam between the French and the communist-led Vietminh came to a head. With French forces reeling, the United States planned to intervene militarily to shore-up the anti-communist position. Turning to its allies for support, first and foremost Great Britain, the US administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower sought to create what Secretary of State John Foster Dulles called a "united action" coalition. In the event, Winston Churchill's Conservative government refused to back the plan. Fearing that US-led intervention could trigger a wider war in which the United Kingdom would be the first target for Soviet nuclear attack, the British Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, was determined to act as Indochina peacemaker - even at the cost of damage to the Anglo-American "special relationship". In Anthony Eden, Anglo-American Relations and the 1954 Indochina Crisis (Bloomsbury, 2019), Kevin Ruane and Matthew Jones revisit a Cold War episode in which British diplomacy played a vital role in settling a crucial question of international war and peace. Eden's diplomatic triumph at the 1954 Geneva Conference on Indochina is often overshadowed by the 1956 Suez Crisis which led to his political downfall. This book, however, recalls an earlier Eden: a skilled and experienced international diplomatist at the height of his powers who may well have prevented a localised Cold War crisis escalating into a general Third World War. Charles Coutinho, PH. D., Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, received his doctorate from New York University. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. He has written for Chatham House's International Affairs, the Institute of Historical Research's Reviews in History and the University of Rouen's online periodical Cercles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the spring of 1954, after eight years of bitter fighting, the war in Vietnam between the French and the communist-led Vietminh came to a head. With French forces reeling, the United States planned to intervene militarily to shore-up the anti-communist position. Turning to its allies for support, first and foremost Great Britain, the US administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower sought to create what Secretary of State John Foster Dulles called a "united action" coalition. In the event, Winston Churchill's Conservative government refused to back the plan. Fearing that US-led intervention could trigger a wider war in which the United Kingdom would be the first target for Soviet nuclear attack, the British Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, was determined to act as Indochina peacemaker - even at the cost of damage to the Anglo-American "special relationship". In Anthony Eden, Anglo-American Relations and the 1954 Indochina Crisis (Bloomsbury, 2019), Kevin Ruane and Matthew Jones revisit a Cold War episode in which British diplomacy played a vital role in settling a crucial question of international war and peace. Eden's diplomatic triumph at the 1954 Geneva Conference on Indochina is often overshadowed by the 1956 Suez Crisis which led to his political downfall. This book, however, recalls an earlier Eden: a skilled and experienced international diplomatist at the height of his powers who may well have prevented a localised Cold War crisis escalating into a general Third World War. Charles Coutinho, PH. D., Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, received his doctorate from New York University. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. He has written for Chatham House's International Affairs, the Institute of Historical Research's Reviews in History and the University of Rouen's online periodical Cercles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In the spring of 1954, after eight years of bitter fighting, the war in Vietnam between the French and the communist-led Vietminh came to a head. With French forces reeling, the United States planned to intervene militarily to shore-up the anti-communist position. Turning to its allies for support, first and foremost Great Britain, the US administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower sought to create what Secretary of State John Foster Dulles called a "united action" coalition. In the event, Winston Churchill's Conservative government refused to back the plan. Fearing that US-led intervention could trigger a wider war in which the United Kingdom would be the first target for Soviet nuclear attack, the British Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden, was determined to act as Indochina peacemaker - even at the cost of damage to the Anglo-American "special relationship". In Anthony Eden, Anglo-American Relations and the 1954 Indochina Crisis (Bloomsbury, 2019), Kevin Ruane and Matthew Jones revisit a Cold War episode in which British diplomacy played a vital role in settling a crucial question of international war and peace. Eden's diplomatic triumph at the 1954 Geneva Conference on Indochina is often overshadowed by the 1956 Suez Crisis which led to his political downfall. This book, however, recalls an earlier Eden: a skilled and experienced international diplomatist at the height of his powers who may well have prevented a localised Cold War crisis escalating into a general Third World War. Charles Coutinho, PH. D., Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, received his doctorate from New York University. His area of specialization is 19th and 20th-century European, American diplomatic and political history. He has written for Chatham House's International Affairs, the Institute of Historical Research's Reviews in History and the University of Rouen's online periodical Cercles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies
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As we heard last episode, Argentinian businessman Senor Davidoff had chartered a boat to take 41 of his men to South Georgia to salvage metal and other materials from abandoned whaling stations. The had not reported to the British head of a scientific mission at the port of Grytviken despite being told to. It was March 1982 and the Bahia Buen Suceso had dropped off the scrapmen on the island who were breaking down the abandoned buildings. They'd also been joined by a French film crew who were forced to seek shelter at South Georgia. After they fixed up the broken tiller and mast, they sailed to Leith Bay from Grytviken to film the scrapping – having decided to forego their planned trip to the Antarctic which had almost ended in catastrophe. On the 23rd March, Lord Carrington the British Foreign Secretary sent an even stronger message to Buenos Aires. If the Bahia Buen Suceso was not ordered back to remove the 41 Argentinian workers left on South Georgia, the Royal Marines would do this forcibly. Endurance was now ordered to head straight for South Georgia and arrived there on the 24th March, then the crew awaited further orders. By the evening of the 23rd March, Admirals, Lombardo, Allara and Busser were gathered at Puerto Belgrano. The all-important army General Garcia was at V Corps HQ only 37 kilometers away. These men communicated and drew up a rushed plan by the evening of the 25th March. Junta leader Galtieri was told the invasion of the Falklands could begin on the 1st April, with a South Georgia operation planned for the same day.The Falkland's plan was simple. First they'd capture Stanley with its airport and Royal Marines barracks. Then they'd focus on the second largest settlement at Goose Green. The Argentine navy would carry out these invasions which was partly dictated by the amphibious nature of the operations. Get bonus content on Patreon Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The political landscape of the United Kingdom and the country's post-Brexit path seems more uncertain than ever. With a domestic leadership crisis and an evolving geopolitical environment characterized by the return of great power rivalry, how is the United Kingdom positioning itself for the challenges yet to come? Lord Hague of Richmond, former British Foreign Secretary and Teneo Senior Advisor joins Kevin Kajiwara for an important discussion on the future of British politics, Britain's place in the world post-Brexit, the foreign policy issues of the day and the ramifications for global businesses.
Sydney has become the backdrop for a significant escalation in rhetoric from the British over Ukraine, as the British Foreign Secretary urged the Russian President to back down.
Margaret Owen, 89, began a hunger strike on November 16, 2021 to raise awareness to the imprisonment of Iranian-British charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. In early April 2016, Nazanin visited Iran to introduce her one-year-old daughter to her parents. She was accused by the Iranian government of being spy and “plotting to topple the government.” On November 2017, then British Foreign Secretary at the time and current Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, accused Zaghari-Ratcliffe of “training journalists” while on her trip. There is no evidence for any of the charges brought against her and she denies any wrongdoing. However, Boris Johnson's comments were used by the Iranian government against her. On 25 October 2021, Nazanin's husband, Richard, started a hunger strike in front of the Foreign Office in London that went on for 21 days. Margaret Owen, along with other campaigners, is continuing the hunger strike in solidarity to keep up the pressure and the media attention on Nazanin's case.
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Photo: Liberal internationalism emerged during the nineteenth century, notably under the auspices of British Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister Lord Palmerston Liberal internationalism, also known as International Liberalism and Pan-Liberalism, is a foreign policy doctrine that argues two main points: first, that international organization should achieve multilateral agreements between states that promote liberal democracy and, second, that liberal states should intervene in other states in order to pursue liberal objectives. Such intervention can include both military invasion and humanitarian aid. This view is contrasted to isolationist, realist, or non-interventionist foreign policy doctrines; these critics characterize it as liberal interventionism. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Liberal Internationalists Tony Blair and George W. Bush fail in Afghanistan and Iraq. Anatol Lieven, @QuincyInst Photo: No known restrictions on publication. CBS Eye on the World with John Batchelor CBS Audio Network @Batchelorshow Liberal Internationalists Tony Blair and George W. Bush fail in Afghanistan and Iraq. Anatol Lieven, @QuincyInst HFN https://quincyinst.org/2021/09/16/vindicating-realist-internationalism/
China's National People's Congress has approved plans that will allow a pro-Beijing panel to vet all candidates for the Hong Kong legislature. Beijing says the reforms will restore stability following years of protests, and ensure that only “patriots” rule Hong Kong. The British Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab, said the move further undermined trust that Beijing would observe its legal obligations under the treaty that saw Britain return the territory to China. Also in the programme: Myanmar's military rulers accuse the ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi of corruption; and what lessons has the World Health Organization learned one year since it described the Covid-19 outbreak as a pandemic? (Image: The closing session of the National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Credit: Epa/Roman Pilipey/Pool)
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My guest today is David Miliband. David is CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development NGO, founded in 1931 by Albert Einstein. Before joining the IRC, David held several cabinet positions in various Labour governments, including that of British Foreign Secretary. In 2017 he published the TED book “Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time” and in 2019 he gave a Fulbright Lecture entitled “The New Arrogance of Power: Global Politics in the Age of Impunity”. If you want to know more about the IRC, you can go to their website at www.rescue.org. You can follow David Miliband on Twitter at @DMiliband.David and I talk about the Third Way, the future of social democracy, the plight of refugees, and the "age of impunity" and how to overcome it.
Episode ninety-eight of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at "I've Just Fallen For Someone" by Adam Faith, and is our final look at the pre-Beatles British pop scene. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on "San Francisco Bay Blues" by Jesse Fuller. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ ----more---- Resources As always, I've created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in the episode. This double-CD set contains all Adam Faith's early recordings. And Big Time: The Life of Adam Faith by David and Caroline Stafford is a delightfully-written, extremely quotable, and by all accounts accurate biography of Faith. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Errata I repeatedly mispronounce Faith's birth surname as “Nelham”. It was “Nelhams”, with an “s”. I also say that "Milk From the Coconut" by Johnny Gentle made the top thirty. It didn't -- I got this from an unreliable source. Transcript Today we're going to take our last look at the pre-Beatles British pop world, and we're going to look at a record that's far more important in retrospect than it seemed at the time. We're going to look at Adam Faith, and a track he recorded called "I've Just Fallen For Someone": [Excerpt: Adam Faith, "I've Just Fallen For Someone"] As is normal for British rock and roll stars of the fifties, Adam Faith was a pseudonym, in this case for someone whose birth name is the subject of some debate -- the registrar seems to have got a bit confused -- but who was known as Terry Nelhams, a five-foot-five singer with high cheekbones, a strong chin, and a weak voice. The crucial change in Nelhams' life had come at the cinema, when he had watched a film called Rebel Without A Cause, starring James Dean. Amazingly, I think we managed to get through the whole 1950s without mentioning Dean, but he was a massive figure in youth pop culture of the fifties, and his presence still resonated for decades afterwards. Dean only starred in three films, and only one, East of Eden, was released in his lifetime -- he died in a car crash while the other two were in post-production -- but his performance in the posthumously-released Rebel Without A Cause seemed to many teenagers of the time to encapsulate everything that they wanted to be. And Terry Nelhams decided he wanted to be James Dean -- why not? He bore a slight resemblance to him. Terry was going to go into showbiz. There was a problem, though -- in the Britain of the fifties, acting was something that was largely the purview of the middle classes, and Terry was firmly working class. He lived on a council estate and went to a secondary modern -- the schools which, in the fifties UK education system, were designed for people who were considered unlikely to succeed academically. There was no way he was going to end up studying at RADA or any of the other ways one got into acting. So he decided that rather than become a film star, he would become a director. That was much easier to get into than acting was, in the British film industry of the fifties -- you got a job as a tea boy at a film studio, worked your way up into the editing suite, became an editor, and then became a director. There was a steady career path, and you had job security at every stage -- and Terry Nelhams was someone who always looked after his money. So that's what he did -- he got a job at the Rank organisation as a messenger, then moved across to a company that made commercials for the new commercial TV network ITV, where he was an assistant editor. But while he was working at Rank, Nelhams had joined a skiffle group, the Worried Men -- named after the skiffle standard -- who had been formed by some of the younger employees. They became the resident band at the 2is when the Vipers Skiffle Group went out on tour. Despite all the stories about other people who had been discovered at the 2is on their first gig, the Worried Men ended up performing there for months before any kind of success. But then they did get a certain amount of fame, when Six-Five Special did its single most famous episode -- a live outside broadcast from the 2is itself. As the house band, the Worried Men got to perform a few songs on that show, and they also got a couple of tracks on two Decca compilations, "Rockin' at the 2is" and "Stars of the Six-Five Special": [Excerpt: The Worried Men, "This Little Light"] But neither album sold particularly well, and the Worried Men slowly drifted apart -- one member joined the Vipers, and Nelhams left before the group got in a couple of people we've already seen a few times in our story -- both Tony Meehan, who would go on to join the Shadows, and Brian Bennett, who ended up replacing him, passed through the group. But while Nelhams had quit the Worried Men -- as much as anything else because holding down a day job while he also played for four hours at the 2is every night was starting to affect his health -- Jack Good remembered him from that one Six-Five Special appearance, and thought that his looks, if not his singing ability, gave him the potential to be a star. Good changed Nelhams' name to Adam Faith, and gave him a solo spot on Six-Five Special, as well as getting him a contract with HMV, one of several record labels owned by the large conglomerate EMI. His first single on HMV was "(Got A) Heartsick Feeling", backed by Geoff Love and his Orchestra: [Excerpt: Adam Faith, "(Got A) Heartsick Feeling"] That record was, of course, publicised on Six-Five Special, but the extent to which Faith's star potential was based on his looks rather than his singing ability can probably be seen from the fact that after his first appearance on the show he mimed rather than sing live, unlike all the other performers. The record was not a success, and nor was his second single, a cover of Jerry Lee Lewis' "High School Confidential": [Excerpt: Adam Faith, "High School Confidential"] Faith was unpopular, but he was able to give up his day job in the editing room to go on tour with a package based on Six-Five Special, at the bottom of the bill. And on that tour he became friendly with one of the other acts, John Barry, the trumpet playing leader of a group called the John Barry Seven. Barry had wanted to be an arranger for big bands, but when he realised that was no longer a viable career path, he'd formed his small group, who at the time were making records like "Zip Zip", which were fairly awful early British rock and roll efforts, but with slightly more interesting instrumental arrangements than the bulk of the work being put out in the UK at that point: [Excerpt: The John Barry Seven, "Zip Zip"] When Jack Good moved over to ITV to do Oh Boy!, he took Faith with him, but Faith's career was stagnating, and he quit performing altogether, and got another job as an assistant editor at Elstree studios, working on ATV shows like William Tell and The Invisible Man. But then Faith got a call from John Barry. The BBC were putting together a new show, Drumbeat, to compete with Oh Boy!, and they wanted their own star to compete with Cliff Richard and Marty Wilde. Would Adam be interested? He would -- though he was cautious enough after last time that he kept his day job. He'd bunk off work on Thursday and Friday afternoons to rehearse and record the show, and make the time up on Sundays. His workmates covered for him when he bunked off, and that worked until his boss' daughter mentioned to the boss that she'd seen Terry on the telly. He was told he had to choose between his pop career and a secure job, and he decided to make his pop career into a secure job, by getting a guaranteed six-month contract on Drumbeat before quitting Elstree. Drumbeat did little to make Faith's records sell any more, but it did lead to acting appearances -- as a biker in the police show No Hiding Place, and as a musician in a cheap exploitation film that was originally titled "Striptease Girl", before the censors made the film producers cut the nudity out (except for foreign markets) at which point it was retitled Beat Girl in the UK, and Wild For Kicks in the US. It was hardly Rebel Without a Cause, but it was definitely a step in the right direction. The music for that film was done by Adam's friend John Barry -- the very first film score Barry ever did: [Excerpt: The John Barry Seven, "Beat Girl"] But Adam Faith was still a pop star without a hit, and that was a situation that couldn't last. He was also temporarily without a record contract, but his new manager Eve Taylor managed to get him one with Parlophone, another EMI-owned label. And then his Drumbeat contacts came through in a big way. One of the other acts who regularly appeared on the show was a group called the Raindrops, who featured a singer who had been born Yannis Skoradalides, but whose name had soon been anglicised to John Worsley. He'd then taken on the stage name Johnny Worth, which was the name he performed under, but he was also starting to write songs -- and because he was under contract as a recording artist, he took on yet another name as a songwriter to avoid any legal complications, so he was writing as Les Vandyke. It was under that name that he wrote a song called "What Do You Want?", which he played to Faith and Barry, his two colleagues on Drumbeat. They saw potential in it -- a lot of potential. And John Barry had an idea for an instrumental gimmick. We're now into 1959, and Buddy Holly's "It Doesn't Matter Any More" had just been a big posthumous hit for him: [Excerpt: Buddy Holly, "It Doesn't Matter Any More"] The pizzicato strings, in particular, had caught the ear of a lot of people, and Barry had already used them in the arrangement he'd written for "Be Mine", a record by the minor British pop star Lance Fortune: [Excerpt: Lance Fortune, "Be Mine"] That hadn't been released yet – it went top five when it eventually was – and Barry thought that it was worth repeating the trick, and so he came up with a pizzicato arrangement for the song Vandyke had written. And for a final touch, Faith received some vocal coaching from another Drumbeat performer, Roy Young, who taught him how to mangle his vowels so that he could sing in what was, to British ears, almost a convincing imitation of Buddy Holly's hiccupping vocal, particularly on the word "baby". The result was a huge hit, becoming the first number one single ever on the Parlophone label: [Excerpt: Adam Faith, "What Do You Want?"] Faith was now a real pop star at last. "What Do You Want?" was also one of the very rare British records to actually get an American cover version -- Bobby Vee, the Buddy Holly soundalike, picked up on the record and issued his own version of it: [Excerpt: Bobby Vee, "What Do You Want?"] That wasn't a success, but as Vee became a star he would occasionally record versions of other songs Faith recorded. Faith's second Parlophone single was another number one, and another song written by Les Vandyke and arranged by John Barry. It was very much "What Do You Want?" part two, but there was an interesting musical figure Barry came up with in the intro: [Excerpt: Adam Faith, "Poor Me"] In the 1990s, Barry used that as evidence in a court case over his claim to authorship of the piece of music with which he is most associated, a piece arranged and performed by Barry, but whose credited writer is Monty Norman. Compare and contrast "Poor Me": [Excerpt: Adam Faith, "Poor Me"] And the James Bond theme: [Excerpt: John Barry, "James Bond Theme"] For the next couple of years, Faith had a string of hits, mostly written by Vandyke and arranged by Barry, though no more number ones. By most metrics -- in hits, record sales, and fan appeal -- he was the second-biggest British pop star of the early sixties, after Cliff Richard. He also became well known as a media personality, thanks in large part to his appearance on the interview show Face to Face. This was a TV programme that ran from 1959 through 1962 -- almost the precise same length as Faith's pop career -- and which had interviewer John Freeman sat with his back to the camera, while the studio was largely in darkness other than the face of the person he was interviewing. Freeman's questions seem in the modern media landscape to be remarkably gentle, but in the early sixties he was regarded as the most incisive and probing interviewer in the British media. He reduced at least one subject, Gilbert Harding, to tears, and his questioning of Tony Hancock is popularly supposed to have started Hancock into the spiral of questioning, self-doubt, and depression that led first to his career crashing and burning and eventually to his suicide. Most of the guests that Freeman had on the show were serious, important, highbrow people. The thirty-five episodes of the show included interviews with Bertrand Russell, Carl Jung, Adlai Stevenson, Henry Moore, Martin Luther King and Jomo Kenyatta. But occasionally there would be someone invited on from the world of sport or entertainment, and Faith was invited on to the show as a representative of youth culture and pop music. The questions asked on the show were clearly designed to make Faith -- a twenty-year-old pop singer who went to a secondary modern and still lived on a council estate even now he'd hit the big time -- seem a laughing stock, and to poke holes in his image. Everyone involved seems to have been surprised when he came across as a well-read, cultured, if rather mercenary, young man who could string three words together: [Excerpt: Adam Faith, "Face to Face", interview questions about classical music and literature] As a result of that appearance, Faith was increasingly asked on to TV shows to be "the voice of the youth", particularly as he was the first pop star to admit to things like having sex before marriage. He debated with the Archbishop of York about religion on national TV, in a debate chaired by Ludovic Kennedy, and Faith was largely viewed as having come out better than the bishop. He also took at least one brave political stand in 1964. He had been booked to tour in South Africa, and agreed to do so only under the condition that he would perform only to integrated audiences. But when he got on stage for one show, he saw the police dragging two young girls out of an otherwise all-white audience, because they weren't white. He walked off stage, and refused to do the rest of the tour. The promoter demanded compensation, and Faith refused, saying he'd made clear that he was only going to play to integrated audiences. He tried to leave the country, booking plane tickets under his birth name to escape suspicion, but was dragged off the plane at gunpoint by South African police. Eventually the intervention of the chairman of EMI, the British Foreign Secretary, the general secretary of Equity, the actor's union, and several brave journalists who said that if Faith was imprisoned they would go to prison with him, meant that Faith was allowed to leave the country, though EMI paid the promoter's compensation and took it out of Faith's future royalties. Not that there were many royalties by that point. In early 1963, John Barry had stopped working with Faith to concentrate on his film music -- he'd just started working on the Bond films that would make his name -- and the hits dried up then, especially when musical styles suddenly changed in the middle of that year. But Faith had managed to parlay his looks into an acting career by that point, and over the next decade he appeared in several films, starred in the TV series Budgie, and toured in repertory theatre. He also became a manager and producer, managing Leo Sayer and producing Roger Daltrey's solo recordings. He would occasionally make the odd record himself, up to the nineties, with his final single being a duet with Daltrey on a cover version of "Stuck in the Middle With You": [Excerpt: Adam Faith and Roger Daltrey, "Stuck in the Middle With You"] But as someone who looked after his money, Faith had been far more canny than most of his fellow pop stars, and for much of his life he was a very wealthy man. While he continued performing, his main role in the eighties and nineties was as a financial journalist and investment advisor, writing columns on finance for the Daily Mail. He presented the BBC business show Working Lunch, the Channel 4 money show Dosh, and eventually started his own TV channel devoted to business, The Money Channel. Unfortunately for him, the Money Channel went down in the stock market crashes of the early 2000s, and Faith went bankrupt in 2002. He died in 2003, aged sixty-two. But you'll notice we haven't yet mentioned the song that this episode is about. That's because that song, "I've Just Fallen For Someone", was completely unimportant in Adam Faith's life. It was just a bit of album filler on his second album. But though Faith didn't know it, it was an important song in rock music history: [Excerpt: Adam Faith, "I've Just Fallen For Someone"] Like Faith's hits, that was written by another performer, one who like Les Vandyke had a variety of different names. John Askew was one of Larry Parnes' stable of acts, and far from the most successful of them. He performed under the name Johnny Gentle, and didn't have a great deal of success. Askew's first single, "Wendy", was unsuccessful, but it was unusual among British singles of the period in that it was written by Askew himself: [Excerpt: Johnny Gentle, "Wendy"] His second, though, made the top thirty: [Excerpt: Johnny Gentle, "Milk From the Coconut"] That would be the most success Johnny Gentle ever had, and his live shows were made up entirely of cover versions of other people's records -- when he toured Scotland in 1960, for example, his setlist consisted of two Buddy Holly songs, and one each by Elvis, Ricky Nelson, Clarence "Frogman" Henry, Eddie Cochran, and Jim Reeves. But he was still writing songs on that tour, and he was working on one in a hotel in Inverness – one that clearly referenced “What Do You Want?” with its girl who doesn't want ermine and pearls – when he got stuck for a middle eight for the song, and mentioned it to the rhythm guitarist in his backing band. The guitarist came up with a new middle eight -- referencing a line from a favourite song of his, "Money" by Barrett Strong. Askew took that new middle eight, though didn't give the guitarist any songwriting credit -- Askew was an established songwriter, after all. He gave the song to Faith, who recorded it in late 1961, and released it in 1962: [Excerpt: Adam Faith, "I've Just Fallen for Someone"] That was on his second album, Adam Faith (his first album had been called Adam), and on an EP taken from the album. But Askew thought it had more potential, and he recorded his own version, as Darren Young -- by this point he'd decided that his old stage name was bringing him bad luck: [Excerpt: Darren Young, "I've Just Fallen for Someone"] That version wasn't successful either, and the song remained completely obscure until the mid-1990s. It was at that point that Askew started telling the story of how the song had been written. And suddenly the song was of a lot more interest, at least to some people, because that rhythm guitarist who wrote that middle eight was John Lennon, and Gentle's backing band on that tour was the Beatles. We've just heard the story of the first ever commercial recording of a John Lennon song. And we'll pick up on that next week...
Episode ninety-eight of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “I’ve Just Fallen For Someone” by Adam Faith, and is our final look at the pre-Beatles British pop scene. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on “San Francisco Bay Blues” by Jesse Fuller. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ —-more—- Resources As always, I’ve created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in the episode. This double-CD set contains all Adam Faith’s early recordings. And Big Time: The Life of Adam Faith by David and Caroline Stafford is a delightfully-written, extremely quotable, and by all accounts accurate biography of Faith. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Errata I repeatedly mispronounce Faith’s birth surname as “Nelham”. It was “Nelhams”, with an “s”. I also say that “Milk From the Coconut” by Johnny Gentle made the top thirty. It didn’t — I got this from an unreliable source. Transcript Today we’re going to take our last look at the pre-Beatles British pop world, and we’re going to look at a record that’s far more important in retrospect than it seemed at the time. We’re going to look at Adam Faith, and a track he recorded called “I’ve Just Fallen For Someone”: [Excerpt: Adam Faith, “I’ve Just Fallen For Someone”] As is normal for British rock and roll stars of the fifties, Adam Faith was a pseudonym, in this case for someone whose birth name is the subject of some debate — the registrar seems to have got a bit confused — but who was known as Terry Nelhams, a five-foot-five singer with high cheekbones, a strong chin, and a weak voice. The crucial change in Nelhams’ life had come at the cinema, when he had watched a film called Rebel Without A Cause, starring James Dean. Amazingly, I think we managed to get through the whole 1950s without mentioning Dean, but he was a massive figure in youth pop culture of the fifties, and his presence still resonated for decades afterwards. Dean only starred in three films, and only one, East of Eden, was released in his lifetime — he died in a car crash while the other two were in post-production — but his performance in the posthumously-released Rebel Without A Cause seemed to many teenagers of the time to encapsulate everything that they wanted to be. And Terry Nelhams decided he wanted to be James Dean — why not? He bore a slight resemblance to him. Terry was going to go into showbiz. There was a problem, though — in the Britain of the fifties, acting was something that was largely the purview of the middle classes, and Terry was firmly working class. He lived on a council estate and went to a secondary modern — the schools which, in the fifties UK education system, were designed for people who were considered unlikely to succeed academically. There was no way he was going to end up studying at RADA or any of the other ways one got into acting. So he decided that rather than become a film star, he would become a director. That was much easier to get into than acting was, in the British film industry of the fifties — you got a job as a tea boy at a film studio, worked your way up into the editing suite, became an editor, and then became a director. There was a steady career path, and you had job security at every stage — and Terry Nelhams was someone who always looked after his money. So that’s what he did — he got a job at the Rank organisation as a messenger, then moved across to a company that made commercials for the new commercial TV network ITV, where he was an assistant editor. But while he was working at Rank, Nelhams had joined a skiffle group, the Worried Men — named after the skiffle standard — who had been formed by some of the younger employees. They became the resident band at the 2is when the Vipers Skiffle Group went out on tour. Despite all the stories about other people who had been discovered at the 2is on their first gig, the Worried Men ended up performing there for months before any kind of success. But then they did get a certain amount of fame, when Six-Five Special did its single most famous episode — a live outside broadcast from the 2is itself. As the house band, the Worried Men got to perform a few songs on that show, and they also got a couple of tracks on two Decca compilations, “Rockin’ at the 2is” and “Stars of the Six-Five Special”: [Excerpt: The Worried Men, “This Little Light”] But neither album sold particularly well, and the Worried Men slowly drifted apart — one member joined the Vipers, and Nelhams left before the group got in a couple of people we’ve already seen a few times in our story — both Tony Meehan, who would go on to join the Shadows, and Brian Bennett, who ended up replacing him, passed through the group. But while Nelhams had quit the Worried Men — as much as anything else because holding down a day job while he also played for four hours at the 2is every night was starting to affect his health — Jack Good remembered him from that one Six-Five Special appearance, and thought that his looks, if not his singing ability, gave him the potential to be a star. Good changed Nelhams’ name to Adam Faith, and gave him a solo spot on Six-Five Special, as well as getting him a contract with HMV, one of several record labels owned by the large conglomerate EMI. His first single on HMV was “(Got A) Heartsick Feeling”, backed by Geoff Love and his Orchestra: [Excerpt: Adam Faith, “(Got A) Heartsick Feeling”] That record was, of course, publicised on Six-Five Special, but the extent to which Faith’s star potential was based on his looks rather than his singing ability can probably be seen from the fact that after his first appearance on the show he mimed rather than sing live, unlike all the other performers. The record was not a success, and nor was his second single, a cover of Jerry Lee Lewis’ “High School Confidential”: [Excerpt: Adam Faith, “High School Confidential”] Faith was unpopular, but he was able to give up his day job in the editing room to go on tour with a package based on Six-Five Special, at the bottom of the bill. And on that tour he became friendly with one of the other acts, John Barry, the trumpet playing leader of a group called the John Barry Seven. Barry had wanted to be an arranger for big bands, but when he realised that was no longer a viable career path, he’d formed his small group, who at the time were making records like “Zip Zip”, which were fairly awful early British rock and roll efforts, but with slightly more interesting instrumental arrangements than the bulk of the work being put out in the UK at that point: [Excerpt: The John Barry Seven, “Zip Zip”] When Jack Good moved over to ITV to do Oh Boy!, he took Faith with him, but Faith’s career was stagnating, and he quit performing altogether, and got another job as an assistant editor at Elstree studios, working on ATV shows like William Tell and The Invisible Man. But then Faith got a call from John Barry. The BBC were putting together a new show, Drumbeat, to compete with Oh Boy!, and they wanted their own star to compete with Cliff Richard and Marty Wilde. Would Adam be interested? He would — though he was cautious enough after last time that he kept his day job. He’d bunk off work on Thursday and Friday afternoons to rehearse and record the show, and make the time up on Sundays. His workmates covered for him when he bunked off, and that worked until his boss’ daughter mentioned to the boss that she’d seen Terry on the telly. He was told he had to choose between his pop career and a secure job, and he decided to make his pop career into a secure job, by getting a guaranteed six-month contract on Drumbeat before quitting Elstree. Drumbeat did little to make Faith’s records sell any more, but it did lead to acting appearances — as a biker in the police show No Hiding Place, and as a musician in a cheap exploitation film that was originally titled “Striptease Girl”, before the censors made the film producers cut the nudity out (except for foreign markets) at which point it was retitled Beat Girl in the UK, and Wild For Kicks in the US. It was hardly Rebel Without a Cause, but it was definitely a step in the right direction. The music for that film was done by Adam’s friend John Barry — the very first film score Barry ever did: [Excerpt: The John Barry Seven, “Beat Girl”] But Adam Faith was still a pop star without a hit, and that was a situation that couldn’t last. He was also temporarily without a record contract, but his new manager Eve Taylor managed to get him one with Parlophone, another EMI-owned label. And then his Drumbeat contacts came through in a big way. One of the other acts who regularly appeared on the show was a group called the Raindrops, who featured a singer who had been born Yannis Skoradalides, but whose name had soon been anglicised to John Worsley. He’d then taken on the stage name Johnny Worth, which was the name he performed under, but he was also starting to write songs — and because he was under contract as a recording artist, he took on yet another name as a songwriter to avoid any legal complications, so he was writing as Les Vandyke. It was under that name that he wrote a song called “What Do You Want?”, which he played to Faith and Barry, his two colleagues on Drumbeat. They saw potential in it — a lot of potential. And John Barry had an idea for an instrumental gimmick. We’re now into 1959, and Buddy Holly’s “It Doesn’t Matter Any More” had just been a big posthumous hit for him: [Excerpt: Buddy Holly, “It Doesn’t Matter Any More”] The pizzicato strings, in particular, had caught the ear of a lot of people, and Barry had already used them in the arrangement he’d written for “Be Mine”, a record by the minor British pop star Lance Fortune: [Excerpt: Lance Fortune, “Be Mine”] That hadn’t been released yet – it went top five when it eventually was – and Barry thought that it was worth repeating the trick, and so he came up with a pizzicato arrangement for the song Vandyke had written. And for a final touch, Faith received some vocal coaching from another Drumbeat performer, Roy Young, who taught him how to mangle his vowels so that he could sing in what was, to British ears, almost a convincing imitation of Buddy Holly’s hiccupping vocal, particularly on the word “baby”. The result was a huge hit, becoming the first number one single ever on the Parlophone label: [Excerpt: Adam Faith, “What Do You Want?”] Faith was now a real pop star at last. “What Do You Want?” was also one of the very rare British records to actually get an American cover version — Bobby Vee, the Buddy Holly soundalike, picked up on the record and issued his own version of it: [Excerpt: Bobby Vee, “What Do You Want?”] That wasn’t a success, but as Vee became a star he would occasionally record versions of other songs Faith recorded. Faith’s second Parlophone single was another number one, and another song written by Les Vandyke and arranged by John Barry. It was very much “What Do You Want?” part two, but there was an interesting musical figure Barry came up with in the intro: [Excerpt: Adam Faith, “Poor Me”] In the 1990s, Barry used that as evidence in a court case over his claim to authorship of the piece of music with which he is most associated, a piece arranged and performed by Barry, but whose credited writer is Monty Norman. Compare and contrast “Poor Me”: [Excerpt: Adam Faith, “Poor Me”] And the James Bond theme: [Excerpt: John Barry, “James Bond Theme”] For the next couple of years, Faith had a string of hits, mostly written by Vandyke and arranged by Barry, though no more number ones. By most metrics — in hits, record sales, and fan appeal — he was the second-biggest British pop star of the early sixties, after Cliff Richard. He also became well known as a media personality, thanks in large part to his appearance on the interview show Face to Face. This was a TV programme that ran from 1959 through 1962 — almost the precise same length as Faith’s pop career — and which had interviewer John Freeman sat with his back to the camera, while the studio was largely in darkness other than the face of the person he was interviewing. Freeman’s questions seem in the modern media landscape to be remarkably gentle, but in the early sixties he was regarded as the most incisive and probing interviewer in the British media. He reduced at least one subject, Gilbert Harding, to tears, and his questioning of Tony Hancock is popularly supposed to have started Hancock into the spiral of questioning, self-doubt, and depression that led first to his career crashing and burning and eventually to his suicide. Most of the guests that Freeman had on the show were serious, important, highbrow people. The thirty-five episodes of the show included interviews with Bertrand Russell, Carl Jung, Adlai Stevenson, Henry Moore, Martin Luther King and Jomo Kenyatta. But occasionally there would be someone invited on from the world of sport or entertainment, and Faith was invited on to the show as a representative of youth culture and pop music. The questions asked on the show were clearly designed to make Faith — a twenty-year-old pop singer who went to a secondary modern and still lived on a council estate even now he’d hit the big time — seem a laughing stock, and to poke holes in his image. Everyone involved seems to have been surprised when he came across as a well-read, cultured, if rather mercenary, young man who could string three words together: [Excerpt: Adam Faith, “Face to Face”, interview questions about classical music and literature] As a result of that appearance, Faith was increasingly asked on to TV shows to be “the voice of the youth”, particularly as he was the first pop star to admit to things like having sex before marriage. He debated with the Archbishop of York about religion on national TV, in a debate chaired by Ludovic Kennedy, and Faith was largely viewed as having come out better than the bishop. He also took at least one brave political stand in 1964. He had been booked to tour in South Africa, and agreed to do so only under the condition that he would perform only to integrated audiences. But when he got on stage for one show, he saw the police dragging two young girls out of an otherwise all-white audience, because they weren’t white. He walked off stage, and refused to do the rest of the tour. The promoter demanded compensation, and Faith refused, saying he’d made clear that he was only going to play to integrated audiences. He tried to leave the country, booking plane tickets under his birth name to escape suspicion, but was dragged off the plane at gunpoint by South African police. Eventually the intervention of the chairman of EMI, the British Foreign Secretary, the general secretary of Equity, the actor’s union, and several brave journalists who said that if Faith was imprisoned they would go to prison with him, meant that Faith was allowed to leave the country, though EMI paid the promoter’s compensation and took it out of Faith’s future royalties. Not that there were many royalties by that point. In early 1963, John Barry had stopped working with Faith to concentrate on his film music — he’d just started working on the Bond films that would make his name — and the hits dried up then, especially when musical styles suddenly changed in the middle of that year. But Faith had managed to parlay his looks into an acting career by that point, and over the next decade he appeared in several films, starred in the TV series Budgie, and toured in repertory theatre. He also became a manager and producer, managing Leo Sayer and producing Roger Daltrey’s solo recordings. He would occasionally make the odd record himself, up to the nineties, with his final single being a duet with Daltrey on a cover version of “Stuck in the Middle With You”: [Excerpt: Adam Faith and Roger Daltrey, “Stuck in the Middle With You”] But as someone who looked after his money, Faith had been far more canny than most of his fellow pop stars, and for much of his life he was a very wealthy man. While he continued performing, his main role in the eighties and nineties was as a financial journalist and investment advisor, writing columns on finance for the Daily Mail. He presented the BBC business show Working Lunch, the Channel 4 money show Dosh, and eventually started his own TV channel devoted to business, The Money Channel. Unfortunately for him, the Money Channel went down in the stock market crashes of the early 2000s, and Faith went bankrupt in 2002. He died in 2003, aged sixty-two. But you’ll notice we haven’t yet mentioned the song that this episode is about. That’s because that song, “I’ve Just Fallen For Someone”, was completely unimportant in Adam Faith’s life. It was just a bit of album filler on his second album. But though Faith didn’t know it, it was an important song in rock music history: [Excerpt: Adam Faith, “I’ve Just Fallen For Someone”] Like Faith’s hits, that was written by another performer, one who like Les Vandyke had a variety of different names. John Askew was one of Larry Parnes’ stable of acts, and far from the most successful of them. He performed under the name Johnny Gentle, and didn’t have a great deal of success. Askew’s first single, “Wendy”, was unsuccessful, but it was unusual among British singles of the period in that it was written by Askew himself: [Excerpt: Johnny Gentle, “Wendy”] His second, though, made the top thirty: [Excerpt: Johnny Gentle, “Milk From the Coconut”] That would be the most success Johnny Gentle ever had, and his live shows were made up entirely of cover versions of other people’s records — when he toured Scotland in 1960, for example, his setlist consisted of two Buddy Holly songs, and one each by Elvis, Ricky Nelson, Clarence “Frogman” Henry, Eddie Cochran, and Jim Reeves. But he was still writing songs on that tour, and he was working on one in a hotel in Inverness – one that clearly referenced “What Do You Want?” with its girl who doesn’t want ermine and pearls – when he got stuck for a middle eight for the song, and mentioned it to the rhythm guitarist in his backing band. The guitarist came up with a new middle eight — referencing a line from a favourite song of his, “Money” by Barrett Strong. Askew took that new middle eight, though didn’t give the guitarist any songwriting credit — Askew was an established songwriter, after all. He gave the song to Faith, who recorded it in late 1961, and released it in 1962: [Excerpt: Adam Faith, “I’ve Just Fallen for Someone”] That was on his second album, Adam Faith (his first album had been called Adam), and on an EP taken from the album. But Askew thought it had more potential, and he recorded his own version, as Darren Young — by this point he’d decided that his old stage name was bringing him bad luck: [Excerpt: Darren Young, “I’ve Just Fallen for Someone”] That version wasn’t successful either, and the song remained completely obscure until the mid-1990s. It was at that point that Askew started telling the story of how the song had been written. And suddenly the song was of a lot more interest, at least to some people, because that rhythm guitarist who wrote that middle eight was John Lennon, and Gentle’s backing band on that tour was the Beatles. We’ve just heard the story of the first ever commercial recording of a John Lennon song. And we’ll pick up on that next week…
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In this episode of The Director's Chair, Michael Fullilove speaks with former British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, about Brexit, leadership of the Labour Party, the future of internationalism, and the direct impact of COVID-19 on unprepared health care systems and populations with pre-existing vulnerabilities. David Miliband served as a Cabinet minister under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, including as Foreign Secretary from 2007 to 2010. He is President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, where he oversees the agency's humanitarian relief operations in more than forty war-affected countries and its refugee resettlement and assistance programs in over twenty US cities.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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There are a few more skirmishes and one more big battle after this period with its frustrations for the British and determination by the Boer die-hards or Bitter einders to continue their war against an empire at its zenith. We will hear about General Christiaan de Wet and Lord Kitchener who are closer physically than at virtually any other time in the war. Kitchener arrived in the Transvaal town of Klerksdorp on the 26th March, de Wet has evaded Kitchener's columns and blockhouses in the the Free State and is about to cross over the Vaal River to join General Koos de la Rey. More about that in a while. What these soldiers don't know is that there have been peace moves afoot internationally for some time. The Dutch Prime Minister, Abraham Kuyper, had sent a coded message to Lord Landsdowne, the British Foreign Secretary, on January 21st 1902. As was the case in those days, the language used was French - the language of diplomacy. And in his forthright way, The Hague was offering “en traite de paix” – a peace treaty between the British and Boers. The Dutch went one step further. They had already worked out a scenario. First the three members of the Boer Delegation which we heard about last year were still in the Netherlands. They would return to South Africa to confer with Boer leaders then return with an authorisation to conduct peace talks somewhere in the Netherlands. On the 29th January, Lord Landsdowne replied bluntly that the British government appreciated the humanitarian considerations that inspired the offer, but on principle declined the intervention of foreign powers in the South African war. Leyds, who was Paul Kruger's secretary in Holland, heard about Kuypers offer through the newspapers and was not amused. Why had the Dutch Prime Minister not bothered to confer with him or Kruger? What also angered the Boer emissaries in Europe was the tone adopted by the Netherlands missive. The letter which failed to call on the British to end an imperialist war nor did it mention the abuses being suffered by Boer women and children in the internment camps. The Dutch message implicitly urged the Boers to give up a hopeless cause. Worse, that response came at about the same time another arrived from America which was negative. President Roosevelt told the Boers that his predecessor, McKinley, had offered his services as a mediator and had been turned down flatly by the British. So Roosevelt said any attempt at intervention would be folly.
Mohammad Shtayyeh, the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss President Trump's Middle East Peace Plan, which Palestine lies at the heart of but apparently had no say in. He explains how this came about and why he refuses to back it. Philip Hammond, former British Foreign Secretary, reflects on UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's support of the plan as well as Brexit and the future of UK politics. Our Hari Sreenivasan sits down with Ahmed Albasheer, host and director of the "Albasheer Show," to talk about his show, the ongoing protests in Iraq and his personal story.
In Hubris: The Road to Donald Trump, Power, Populism, Narcissism David Owen analyses and describes the mental and physical condition of political leaders past and present with a particular view that what went before paved the way to President Trump. Of recent leaders there have been depressives, alcoholics, narcissists, populists and those affected by hubris syndrome and driven by their religious beliefs, as in Bush and Blair. But Donald Trump, a world-class narcissist, presents a completely different set of issues. This book is the first to place him in his historical, political, philosophical and medical context. It is appropriate that it should come from someone uniquely qualified to do so. A writer on Military Conversations of 1906-14, the War Cabinet in 1940 and UK foreign policy post Brexit. David Owen was British Foreign Secretary 1977-79 and EU peace negotiator in the Balkans 1992-95. Also he has served on the board of several large international companies with interests in Russia, the US and the UK. As a former neuroscientist he has written extensively on hubris syndrome in journals like Brain and in 2008 in his classic book, In Sickness and In Power, still in print in a revised edition from 2016. Part of an exciting series of talks and events which coincide with the exhibition ‘Freud, Dali and the Metamorphosis of Narcissus’, on display until 24 February 2019.
1934 In Marseilles, a Bulgarian/Macedonian revolutionary Vlado Chernozemski, associated with Croat terrorists in Hungary and Italy, assassinates King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. The two had been on a tour of European capitals in quest of an alliance against Nazi Germany. The French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou had attempted in 1934 to build an alliance meant to contain Germany consisting of France's allies in Eastern Europe like Yugoslavia together with Italy and the Soviet Union. The long-standing rivalry between Benito Mussolini and King Alexander had complicated Barthou's work as Alexander complained about Italian claims against his country together with support for Hungarian revisionism and the Croat Ustaše terrorist group. During a visit to Belgrade in June 1934, Barthou promised the King that France would pressure Mussolini into signing a treaty under which he would renounce his claims against Yugoslavia. Alexander was skeptical of Barthou's plan, noting that there were hundreds of Ustašhi being sheltered in Italy and it was rumoured that Mussolini had financed an unsuccessful attempt by the Ustaše to assassinate him in December 1933. Mussolini had come to believe that it was only the personality of Alexander that was holding Yugoslavia together and if the King were assassinated, then Yugoslavia would descend into civil war. However, France was Yugoslavia's closest ally and Barthou invited Alexander for a visit to France to sign a Franco-Yugoslav agreement that would allow Barthou to, in his words, "go to Rome with the certainty of success". Chernozemski was able to emerge from the crowd, approach the king's car and leap onto its running board while concealing his pistol in a bouquet of flowers. He shot Alexander repeatedly, hitting him twice, once in the abdomen and the other in the heart; King Alexander died within minutes. The chauffeur—who tried to push Chernozemski off the car—and Alexander's companion in the car, French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou, were also shot. Chernozemski killed the chauffeur, apparently unintentionally. A police officer fired at Chernozemski but missed and fatally wounded Barthou. The chauffeur died almost immediately, with his foot pressed on the brake of the car, providing the opportunity for a photographer outside the car to photograph most of the grisly affair. After shooting a policeman who tried to seize him and inadvertently killing two bystanders, Chernozemski fired his handgun over ten times, killing or wounding a total of 15 people, then attempted to flee the scene but was struck by a slash from an escorting cavalryman's sabre. He then received a non-mortal bullet wound in the head from a nearby police officer, before being savagely beaten by the enraged crowd while the police stood back and watched. Pierre Laval, who succeeded Barthou as foreign minister, wished to continue the rapprochement with Rome, and saw the assassinations in Marseille as an inconvenience that was best forgotten. Both London and Paris made it clear that they regarded Mussolini as a responsible European statesman and in private told Belgrade that under no circumstances would they allow Mussolini to be blamed. In a speech in Northampton on 19 October 1934, the British Foreign Secretary, Sir John Simon, expressed his sympathy to the people of Yugoslavia over the king's assassination while also saying he was convinced by Mussolini's speech in Milan denying his involvement in the assassination. When Yugoslavia made an extradition request to Italy for Pavelić on charges of regicide, the Quai d'Orsay expressed concern that if Pavelić were extradited, he might incriminate Mussolini and were greatly reassured when their counterparts at the Palazzo Chigi stated there was no possibility of Pavelić being extradited. Vlado Chernozemski is considered a hero in Bulgaria today.
The world’s most pressing and potentially dangerous strategic confrontation is playing out in the narrow waterway between Iran and Arabia. The United states is leading efforts to isolate the Government in Tehran. Iran is responding with defiance despite severe economic disruption. Former British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, is a veteran of western diplomatic engagement with Iran. How high is the risk of a calamitous conflict? (Photo: Jack Straw in the Hardtalk studio)
Jack Straw, former British Foreign Secretary and author of "The English Job", joins Christiane Amanpour to discuss rising tensions between Iran and the West, as well as Boris Johnson's new appointment as Prime Minister. Then, Christiane speaks with Jamie Bell and activist Daryle Lamont Jenkins about the new film "Skin." Bell plays a white nationalist who renounces his former life. Lamont Jenkins is portrayed in the film; he is an activist who helped the real-life Nazi portrayed by Bell leave his former life behind. Our Walter Isaacson sits down with Matt Murray, the editor-in-chief of The Wall Street Journal, to reflect on 130 years of the journal in print and the challenges facing journalists today.
The British Foreign Secretary has warned of the danger of Iran and the United States stumbling into a war by accident. And the signs are ominous: the US accelerated the deployment of an aircraft carrier and B52 bombers to the Persian Gulf and all non-essential staff are being withdrawn from the US Embassy in Baghdad. US National Security Adviser John Bolton said any attack by Iran on America or its allies would be met with what he called unrelenting force. So what's the risk of a war breaking out? David Aaronovitch is joined by: Ali Vaez of the International Crisis Group Kori Schake of the International Institute for Strategic Studies Aniseh Barissi Tabrizi of the Royal United Services Institute Robert Cooper, former EU diplomat. Barbara Leaf, former US diplomat and State Department official
* America’s approach to providing financial aid wasn’t popular with some of their allies either. * Ernest Bevin, the British Foreign Secretary, resented American dollar diplomacy, in particular the linking of desperately needed financial assistance to London’s submission on political matters central to British sovereignty. * The American loan agreement, signed in December 1945 after […]
EPISODE 2 | THE HERO OF THE EUROPEAN WAR INTRODUCTION BY PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN Sir Edward Grey, the British Foreign Secretary, found himself treading a diplomatic tightrope: how ‘to secure the maximum of blockade that could be enforced without a rupture with the United States'? Professor Sir Hew Strachan reflects on the war at sea and the challenges of securing the right kind of peace. PRESENTER Sir Hew Strachan is Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a Life Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford (2002-2015) and Director of the Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War (2003-2012). He is a Trustee of the Imperial War Museum, and a Commonwealth War Graves Commissioner. CREDITS Music - James Holmes on piano | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Recorded at Essential Music | A ChromeRadio Production 2017 | With thanks to the Rothermere Foundation.
On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker and John Kiriakou are joined by peace activist and scholar Dr. Anthony Monteiro and author Paul Atwood.Tensions across Eastern Europe are heating up as NATO inches towards the Russian border, disputes over missile installations flare, and the head of the U.S. Marine Corps bluntly declares, “there’s a war coming”. Just how much longer can the “Russiagate” probes keep going? Despite uncovering no hard evidence, Nancy Pelosi is demanding that the House continue its investigation, and FBI Deputy Director McCabe appears before the intelligence committee. Brian and John speak with Peter Lavelle, host of RT's flagship show CrossTalk.A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit accusing Donald Trump of violating the emoluments clause of the constitution. However, the judge did not rule that Trump was not in violation of the clause, simply that the plaintiff lacked standing. Dan Kovalik, a labor rights lawyers, joins the show to discuss the case.Pro-independence political parties held onto their majority in the Catalan parliament in yesterday’s election. The stage appears to be set for another round of confrontation between Catalonia and the central Spanish government. Joining the show is political analyst Denis Rogatyuk. Boris Johnson is in Moscow today for talks with Russian officials, the first such visit by a British Foreign Secretary in five years. Brian and John are joined by Alexander Mercouris, editor-in-chief of The Duran. Vice President Mike Pence made a surprise visit to U.S. troops in Afghanistan yesterday, insisting that the U.S. was on a path to victory in the country and bragging about the Trump administration’s move to increase the military’s budget. Brian Terrell, a long time peace activist and a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, joins the show.Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google’s parent company Alphabet, resigned yesterday. The reasons are myriad, but what’s more important is what happens next for the company that has become synonymous with the internet.
Once You Clear The Bodies “There’s a group of UK business people, wonderful guys … And they literally have a brilliant vision to turn Sirte … into the next Dubai. The only thing they’ve got to do is clear the dead bodies away and then they’ll be there.” Boris Johnson, British Foreign Secretary, September 2017 Come now, native, wipe that tear all’s not lost, this time next year we’ll build a shopping centre here well, once you clear the bodies. Bring on the low-tax Costa Blanco BoJo’s on it! Chin-up, sambo! What you want’s a brand new Nando’s once you clear the bodies. That’s it! Swap that spear for lucre! Get some air con. Splendid. Super. Apple. Gucci. Rayban. Uber. Once you clear the bodies. I feel for you, hey, I’ve read Brooke. War’s a horrid thing, now look, it’s British Airways! Thomas Cook! Once you clear the bodies. So grab a broom! Yes, quickly please We’ll bring the British expertise. No, me no speako Bongo-ese. Just clear the bloody bodies. The friendly guns have done their bit. Shock doctrine strikes! Now dig that pit! We’ll build a massive mall right here, and you can work in it. Once you clear the bodies. © Luke Wright. 4.10.17
EPISODE 2 Sir Edward Grey, the British Foreign Secretary, found himself treading a diplomatic tightrope: how ‘to secure the maximum of blockade that could be enforced without a rupture with the United States’? Professor Sir Hew Strachan reflects on the war at sea and the challenges of securing the right kind of peace. PRESENTER Sir Hew Strachan is Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a Life Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford (2002-2015) and Director of the Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War (2003-2012). He is a Trustee of the Imperial War Museum, and a Commonwealth War Graves Commissioner. CREDITS Music - James Holmes on piano | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Recorded at Essential Music | A ChromeRadio Production 2017 | With thanks to the Rothermere Foundation #History #WW1
On Wednesday 13th April, Rabbi Sacks took part in a public conversation with David Miliband, CEO and President of the International Rescue Committee and former British Foreign Secretary. Their discussion was entitled “Healing a Fractured World: Instability, Refugees and our Responsibility” and was moderated by Rebecca Blumenstein, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, The Wall Street Journal. It was hosted by New York University’s Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life and was part of the Selma Ruben Distinguished lecture series.
The British Foreign Secretary speaks in favour of war at the House of Commons. Margaret Macmillan chronicles the events leading up to the First World War. Each episode draws together newspaper accounts, diplomatic correspondence and private journals from the same day exactly one hundred years ago, giving a picture of the world in 1914 as it was experienced at the time. The series tracks the development of the European crisis day by day, from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand through to the first week of the conflict. As well as the war, it gives an insight into the wider context of the world in 1914 including the threat of civil war in Ireland, the sensational trial of Madame Caillaux in France and the suffragettes' increasingly violent campaign for votes for women. Margaret Macmillan is Professor of International History at Oxford University. Readings: Andrew Byron, Stephen Greif, Felix von Manteuffel, Jaime Stewart, Simon Tcherniak Jane Whittenshaw Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore Producer: Russell Finch A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
The UK Independence Party topped the UK polls in the recent European elections putting pressure on the Conservative and Labour Parties to reconsider their position on immigration and the UK's relationship with the EU ahead of the 2015 general election. Hardtalk speaks to veteran Labour MP, Jack Straw, who held successive senior positions in government between 1997 and 2010. Is the Labour Party under Ed Miliband in tune with voters and capable of winning next year's general election?(Photo: Veteran Labour MP Jack Straw)
From Syria and Afghanistan to relations with the US and Europe, how influential is British foreign policy today?Picture: William Hague, Credit: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images
As part of the Legatum Institute's latest Salon Series 'Prosperity on the Edge: 1913-14 The Last Year of Peace' King's College London Professor Vernon Bogdanor examined the role and contribution of the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, in the last months of peace. Introductory remarks from Hywel Williams, Senior Advisor at the Legatum Institute
Those who have listened to our show have frequently heard it introduced by a woman with a delightful Irish brogue – that voice belongs to Emma Lloyd. Emma is a dear friend who was born in Ireland and lived in England during World War 2. While Emma has been a guest on the show before, this time we asked her to help us celebrate Memorial Day by sharing her memories of Ireland and England during the great “War to end all Wars.” As Emma shares with us during the interview, we pray that there will never be another war like WWII. As you will hear throughout the interview, Emma herself is a bit of living history. Notes to the interview: Among the many famous people that Emma met, one of them that she refers to is Queen Mary. The Queen Mary that she is referring to here is Mary of Teck, the Queen consort to King George V, Queen Mother of George VI, who was king of England during World War II. She also speaks of Margaret and Elizabeth. These are, of course, Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon, and her sister who is now Queen Elizabeth II of England. Both Margaret and Elizabeth remained in England during World War II, despite pressure from the British government to evacuate to Canada. The “Anthony Eden” she refers to is Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, who was the British Foreign Secretary between 1935 and 1955, including World War II. Anthony Eden later went on to become Prime Minister of England between 1955 and 1957. During the interview she refers to “Doodlebugs” – this was a common nick name for the V1 jet propelled bombs that Germany Launched at Britain during World War II. Julie and Fran
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