245. Inside The Good Friday Agreement with Alastair Campbell

Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnand. And me, William Terrymple. As you know, in the last four episodes we have been talking about the troubles and we have a very, very special guest on today. I mean you might have heard of him. Alistair Campbell, our pod buddy on Goalhanger.

Hello, Alistair, welcome. Hello, nice to see you both. Yeah, very lovely to see you. But you're here in your capacity because you were the man on the spot during the Good Friday Agreement. And if you're listening to this as it is released today, it is exactly 27 years since the Good Friday Agreement was signed.

Just just first off, did you ever think it would happen or right until the last minute did you think, oh God, something's going to go wrong here? There's a long history of British attempts to try and pull something like this off, which have gone spectacularly wrong for 120 years. That's a very good question because no is the short answer. No, we I don't think we did.

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