288. Suez Crisis: The End of The British Empire (Part 5)

Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnand. And me, William Durymple. Episode five of our Suez Crisis series and again our guide through this really labyrinthine moment in history where we were on the brink of Armageddon. And we really, really were, is Alex von Tinselmann. Thank you very much for coming back to speak to us.

Oh, I'm a Geddin correspondent. Indeed. Never thought I'd have to know the plural of apocalypse. Well, it's always a useful thing, it seems, looking at this series. Now look, we left the last episode.

on Eden standing before his people saying, Look, I'm a man of peace, I haven't changed, you've changed, they've all changed. I'm the same guy, I'm I'm a I'm a lover, not a fighter. What we didn't say, this is uh Saturday, the third of November, nineteen fifty six, but something monumental happens at midnight on the same day. the same day that Eden is talking about wasn't me, Gov. What happens, Alex?

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