Creating History

Creating Churchill: FRIEND

Creating Churchill offers a fresh perspective on the life and legacy of the soldier, writer, and war leader Winston Churchill. As we approach the 150th anniversary of his birth on 30th November, 2024, this podcast invites listeners to look beyond the now familiar bulldog image and rediscover the real Churchill, his strengths and his weaknesses, through the eyes of contemporaries he collaborated or clashed with.
 
Join Cambridge University historian David Reynolds and documentary producer Russell Barnes as they explore how Churchill’s extraordinary career and personality were shaped by relationships with the key figures in his life: friends, rivals, enemies and family.
 
In this episode: Winston Churchill's relationship with the leader of Britain's closest ally during World War Two, the American president, Franklin Roosevelt, and what it reveals about Churchill's political skills and also about his very human side. 
 
 
Creating Churchill draws on David Reynolds’ book
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him,
published by HarperCollins in the UK:
https://williamcollinsbooks.co.uk/products/mirrors-of-greatness-churchill-and-the-leaders-who-shaped-him-david-reynolds-9780008439910/
 
And Basic Books in the USA:
 
https://hachettebookgroup.com/titles/david-reynolds/mirrors-of-greatness/9781541620209/ 
 
 
Produced and edited by Russell Barnes.
Music by Rich Farnsworth.
Digital marketing by Lee Mann.
Sound engineering by Andrew Chappell.
Hosted by Podbean.
 
Creating Churchill is a ClearStory ‘Creating History’ production.
www.clearstory.co.uk
 
Follow the show on X or Instagram at @Creating_Hist
 
Send your comments, voice notes and questions to info@clearstory.co.uk
 
 

Creating Churchill: ENEMIES

Creating Churchill offers a fresh perspective on the life and legacy of the soldier, writer, and war leader Winston Churchill. As we approach the 150th anniversary of his birth on 30th November, 2024, this podcast invites listeners to look beyond the now familiar bulldog image and rediscover the real Churchill, his strengths and his weaknesses, through the eyes of contemporaries he collaborated or clashed with.
 
Join Cambridge University historian David Reynolds and documentary producer Russell Barnes as they explore how Churchill’s extraordinary career and personality were shaped by relationships with the key figures in his life: friends, rivals, enemies and family.
 
In this episode: we look at Winston Churchill through his relationship with the adversaries Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, who, in many ways, would define his place in history…  
 
Creating Churchill draws on David Reynolds’  book Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him, published by HarperCollins and now out in paperback:  https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/mirrors-of-greatness-churchill-and-the-leaders-who-shaped-him-david-reynolds?variant=41228714770510
 
Produced and edited by Russell Barnes.
Music by Rich Farnsworth.
Digital marketing by Lee Mann.
Sound engineering by Andrew Chappell.
Hosted by Podbean.
 
Send your comments, voice notes and questions to info@clearstory.co.uk
 
Find us on X & Instagram: @Creating_Hist
 
Creating Churchill is a ClearStory ‘Creating History’ production.
www.clearstory.co.uk
 

Creating Churchill: RIVAL

Creating Churchill offers a fresh perspective on the life and legacy of the soldier, writer, and war leader Winston Churchill. As we approach the 150th anniversary of his birth on 30th November, 2024, this podcast invites listeners to look beyond the now familiar bulldog image and rediscover the real Churchill, his strengths and his weaknesses, through the eyes of contemporaries he collaborated or clashed with.
 
Join Cambridge University historian David Reynolds and documentary producer Russell Barnes as they explore how Churchill’s extraordinary career and personality were shaped by relationships with the key figures in his life: friends, rivals, enemies and family.
 
This episode explores Winston Churchill’s return to the Conservative party, his time in government in the 1920s and in the political wilderness in the 1930s through the lens of his great rivalry with Neville Chamberlain.
 
Churchill collaborated and competed with Chamberlain in and out of government. Both had their eye on the ultimate political prize, becoming Prime Minister. Chamberlain got there first in 1937 and, as a new war with Germany loomed, his policy of appeasement was bitterly opposed by Churchill.
 
Produced and edited by Russell Barnes.
Music by Rich Farnsworth.
Digital marketing by Lee Mann.
Sound engineering by Andrew Chappell.
 
Send your comments, voice notes and questions to info@clearstory.co.uk
 
Find us on X & Instagram: @Creating_Hist
 
Creating Churchill is a ClearStory ‘Creating History’ production.
www.clearstory.co.uk
 
Creating Churchill draws on David Reynolds’ book Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him, published by HarperCollins and now out in paperback:  https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/mirrors-of-greatness-churchill-and-the-leaders-who-shaped-him-david-reynolds?variant=41228714770510

Creating Churchill: MENTOR

Creating Churchill offers a fresh perspective on the life and legacy of the soldier, writer, and war leader Winston Churchill. As we approach the 150th anniversary of his birth on 30th November, 2024, this podcast invites listeners to look beyond the now familiar bulldog image and rediscover the real Churchill, his strengths and his weaknesses, through the eyes of contemporaries he collaborated or clashed with.
 
Join Cambridge University historian David Reynolds and documentary producer Russell Barnes as they explore how Churchill’s extraordinary career and personality were shaped by relationships with the key figures in his life: friends, rivals, enemies and family.
 
In this episode, a relationship that gives us a window onto Winston Churchill’s early political career - when, in 1904, Churchill crosses the floor of the House of Commons to join the Liberal Party, he sits next to the Welsh firebrand David Lloyd George. In government after 1906, they become the Liberal government’s most dynamic ministers. But it’s a relationship that gradually sours as their personalities and politics begin to clash.
 
Send comments, voice notes and questions to info@clearstory.co.uk
 
Find us on X & Instagram: @Creating_Hist
 
Creating Churchill is a ClearStory ‘Creating History’ production.
www.clearstory.co.uk
 
Creating Churchill draws on David Reynolds’ book Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him, published by HarperCollins and now out in paperback:  https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/mirrors-of-greatness-churchill-and-the-leaders-who-shaped-him-david-reynolds?variant=41228714770510

Creating Churchill: Introduction

Creating Churchill offers a fresh perspective on the life and legacy of the soldier, writer, and war leader Winston Churchill. As we approach the 150th anniversary of his birth on 30th November, 2024, this podcast invites listeners to look beyond the now familiar bulldog image and rediscover the real Churchill, his strengths and his weaknesses, through the eyes of contemporaries he collaborated or clashed with.
 
Join Cambridge University historian David Reynolds and documentary producer Russell Barnes as they explore how Churchill’s extraordinary career and personality were shaped by relationships with the key figures in his life: friends, rivals, enemies and family.
 
In this introduction, David and Russell discuss why they’re making this podcast series and the need to see the real, historical Churchill again behind the myths he and others created about his life.
 
Send your comments, voice notes and questions to info@clearstory.co.uk
 
Find us on X & Instagram: @Creating_Hist
 
Creating Churchill is a ClearStory ‘Creating History’ production.
www.clearstory.co.uk
 
Creating Churchill draws on David Reynolds’ book Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him, published by HarperCollins and now out in paperback:  https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/mirrors-of-greatness-churchill-and-the-leaders-who-shaped-him-david-reynolds?variant=41228714770510
 

Creating Churchill: FATHER

Creating Churchill offers a fresh perspective on the life and legacy of the soldier, writer, and war leader Winston Churchill. As we approach the 150th anniversary of his birth on 30th November, 2024, this podcast invites listeners to look beyond the now familiar bulldog image and rediscover the real Churchill, his strengths and his weaknesses, through the eyes of contemporaries he collaborated or clashed with.
 
Join Cambridge University historian David Reynolds and documentary producer Russell Barnes as they explore how Churchill’s extraordinary career and personality were shaped by relationships with the key figures in his life: friends, rivals, enemies and family.
 
Creating Churchill is about seeing Winston Churchill through the key relationships in his life. And no relationship is more formative than that with a parent. So, in this opening episode, covering Churchill’s childhood, youth  and early career, Russell and David explore the relationship Churchill has, as a son, with his father Lord Randolph Churchill. Spoiler alert, it’s not particularly happy and it’s short-lived.  As his friend Violet Asquith commented, throughout his life Winston worshipped at the ‘altar of his unknown father’. 
 
Send comments, voice notes and questions to info@clearstory.co.uk
 
Find us on X & Instagram: @Creating_Hist
 
Creating Churchill is a ClearStory ‘Creating History’ production.
www.clearstory.co.uk
 
Creating Churchill draws on David Reynolds’ book Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him, published by HarperCollins and now out in paperback:  https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/mirrors-of-greatness-churchill-and-the-leaders-who-shaped-him-david-reynolds?variant=41228714770510