BROTHERS IN LAW AT WAR + The Greatest Naval Hero | Ep.151 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast
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In the last episode Phil explored one of the darkest chapters of the ‘War of the Waleses’, the post mortem ’thrashing of Diana’ by some of her ex husband’s closest advisors. He didn’t know then that this story would, within a week, become headline news all around the world because of the new book by Diana’s brother, Earl Spencer. With extraordinary claims flying around, and an apparently open war between the Spencers family and King Charles, who are we to believe, is it even right to air such allegations now, and what does it all mean for the ongoing family rift over the recently returned Harry and Meghan?
Phil then leaves royal matters for one of his favourite periods - Regency Britain. Writer Peter Moore joins to discuss a remarkable new book he’s written about Thomas Cochrane, one of the greatest - and most scandalous - British military heroes of all time. Almost as famous as Nelson in his lifetime, Cochrane is the model for Hornblower and Patrick O’Brien’s Jack Aubrey. His life - one very much ‘lived on the edge’ - is packed with glory, passion, political intrigue, scandals, court cases and love affairs. His book can be found here... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dangerous-Game-Thomas-Cochranes-Life/dp/1784743208
Here is a link to a low-fi copy of Phil’s 2003 documentary with Patrick Jephson that he refers to (we make no claim to copyright and are circulating just for public information)... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fQQNoHZ0gI&t=590s
There’s information and extracts from Phil’s own book here. It’s about to be published in paperback too... https://sites.google.com/view/1945thereckoning/home
You can order his book on Amazon UK and Amazon Australia, India and NZ - and it is available all around the world as an e-book and an audio book... https://www.amazon.co.uk/1945-Reckoning-Empire-Struggle-World/dp/139971449X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=#
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