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Not so dissimilar to politics today

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GabriellaG54 Sat 06-Apr-19 18:51:31

Storyville on BBC4 has always been one of my favourite documentary programmes and I was fascinated by their recent Toffs Queers and Traitors: The Extraordinary Life of Guy Burgess.
I remember bits of it but was too young to assimilate the content.
Our present kakistocracy seems strangely familiar.

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Countrylife Mon 22-Apr-19 08:27:40

Missed it, always fascinated by those Cambridge spies will try to get it via iplayer. Tks

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GabriellaG54 Mon 22-Apr-19 20:53:27

Yes, still available on iPlayer and well worth watching.
Look under Storyville grin

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M0nica Mon 22-Apr-19 20:54:13

I always enjoy listening to The Long View on R4, when Jonathon Freedland compares a current event with a past equivalent.

Tomorrow at 9.00am the programme is titled: Brexit and European Diplomacy and explores parallels between Brexit and a major dispute between King Offa of Mercia and Charlemagne, King of the Franks in the 790s.

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GabriellaG54 Mon 22-Apr-19 21:03:07

I may well tune in to that M0nica
I much prefer talks on radio to the music programmes.
I've put a reminder sticky note on the radio. smile

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