Historian Sir David Cannadine Explores Winston Churchill's Life Outside Politics

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Historian Sir David Cannadine Explores Winston Churchill’s Life Outside Politics

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March 14, 2011

Historian Sir David Cannadine, host of BBC Radio 4 series on the great statesmen, looks at his interests outside Number 10. Winston Churchill was a committed bricklayer, he even joined the bricklayers’ union. But this didn’t mean he had anything in common with the working man.

He was surrounded by a retinue of servants, he never even set foot in a shop and he famously got stuck on the Circle line the only time he used the tube. In the first of ten programmes in the series, David Cannadine explores Churchill’s devotion to bricklaying and what it tells us about his relationship with ordinary people.

Follow this link to listen to the programme on BBC Radio 4

Producer: Melissa FitzGerald
A Blakeway Production for BBC Radio 4.