Past Present Future Podcast Live - Churchill: The Politician with Nine Lives

This year sees the anniversary of Winston Churchill’s death (1965), his greatest triumph (VE Day/1945) and his greatest disaster (Gallipoli/1915). 

Who was the real Churchill? Hero, villain, soldier, statesman, imperialist, rebel, visionary, throwback, myth? 

We’re thrilled to welcome podcast host David Runciman and special guest historian Robert Saunders for a lively discussion that will consider how one man's political career could encompass so many twists and turns of fortune and explore what the endless arguments surrounding his reputation reveal about the state of Britain then and now.

Past Present Future is a weekly podcast with David Runciman, host of Talking Politics, exploring the history of ideas from politics to philosophy, culture to technology. David talks to historians, novelists, scientists and many others about where the most interesting ideas come from, what they mean, and why they matter.

Ideas from the past, questions about the present, shaping the future.