Who moulded Winston Churchill?

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To join us as we serve up stories of some remarkable delicacies from the past, search History's Greatest Dishes and follow the feed wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the History Extra podcast, fascinating historical conversations from the makers of BBC History magazine. Later this week, it'll be 60 years since the death of Winston Churchill on the 24th of January 1965. So we thought it'd be interesting to bring back this episode with Professor David Reynolds from 2023. He explores how Churchill's remarkable career saw him interact with other great figures of the age, many of whom had a profound impact on Britain's wartime leader.

Speaking to Rob Attar, David examines Churchill's relationships with the likes of Stalin, Mussolini, Gandhi and Clement Attlee, and considers how these figures left their mark on the statesman. So, David, your book frames Churchill's life around some of the people who he interacted with and who influenced him over the years. Why do you think this is a particularly helpful way to approach Churchill? I think we often think of Churchill as a solitary genius, a self-made man.

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