258. The Big Three & The Big Carve Up (Ep 3)

Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnan. And me, William Trimple. So in the last couple of episodes we told you about the cast list, we told you about their background. We told you about their little secrets, and secrets that they don't even know have been sold to the Soviets. So now they're going to meet.

They arrive separately, of course, because they're coming from different places. For Roosevelt, it's a really arduous flight. It's long, it's body joltingly hard. And when they come off the plane, you've got sort of already a different aspect to both of them. Churchill, you've got sort of swaggering off with a chewing on his cigar, you know, sort of like all cocky and ready.

Roosevelt has to be lowered onto the tarmac in his wheelchair. And there is something that he asks his hosts and really insists on that he should not be photographed at such times showing his vulnerabilities. So you won't see images of him being lowered onto the tarmac, but you will see him in a car driving off. When Churchill and Roosevelt met up prior to this in Malta, Churchill was very keen to get into a bat room with Roosevelt and knock out knock out common positions. And Roosevelt

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