260. Yalta: Signing Away The Fate of The World (Ep 5)

Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnand. And me, William Darymple, who is wrapped up like a Arctic explorer because he's back in the UK. A bit of a shock. Look, we're picking up the baton in our big Yalta relay race and we're right at the end.

We're on the end stretch. And this is, I mean, just you've got to imagine what they are feeling because, you know, it's been a long, painful five days for them so far. Or that caveat and desperate. Well, I mean the caveat and vodka are is one thing and also much less vodka for Stalin, because as we've been saying, you know, he's been watering down his drinks while you know, Churchill's been knocking them back.

As Churchill tended to do. Well, and also it's really deeply criticised by his team. You know, the more the more I read about it, the more I see that they are sick and tired of him turning up to meetings completely sloshed. He starts with Bollinger in the bath in the morning, which is something that I should try to interest upon. I feel Bollinger on the bath rack is a very good start.

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