This week Phil is delighted to welcome Brittany from the Royal News Network to discuss the secret lives of European royal families, especially those of Spain, Belgium and Norway. Brittany has a remarkably detailed knowledge of royalty - and a great flair for storytelling.

And we’ll also hear what she thinks of Harry and Meghan’s current level of popularity in the USA.

You can check out Brittany’s excellent channel here...

https://www.youtube.com/@RoyalNewsNetwork

Several Australia listeners have asked for a full list of where Phil is speaking there in October. And so here are five opportunities to see him and say ‘G’Day’.

1) Melbourne with Prof Clare Wright 10 October...

Phil Craig in conversation with Clare Wright.

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1424756

2) Day Long conference in Melbourne 11 October...

Fighting to the Finish: Australia in 1945 – Strategy, Victory and Legacy – MHHV

https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/fighting-to-the-finish-australia-in-1945-strategy-victory-and-legacy/

3) Sydney with Chris Masters 12 October

Author Talk: 1945 The Reckoning - Phil Craig

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/author-talk-1945-the-reckoning-phil-craig-tickets-1248763849289

4) Sydney with Michaela Kalowski 12 October...

Author Talk and Book Launch - Phil Craig ‘1945: The Reckoning’

https://events.humanitix.com/author-talk-and-book-launch-phil-craig-1945-the-reckoning

5) Canberra with Christine Helliwell 15 October...

Marking the end of the Second World War | Australian War Memorial

https://www.awm.gov.au/the-end-of-the-second-world-war

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Phil’s old pod pal Andrew has written a groundbreaking and highly controversial new book on the Yorks - and he is returning to the pod with all the best stories! He’s also going to share just how hard it was to get this book across the line, and the various obstacles put in his way.

This book - for Andrew - is the culmination of years of fighting to get access to royal records, especially financial ones and so to connects to his work on Lord Mountbatten too.

You can buy Entitled at our own bookshop here...

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/entit...

Several Australia listeners have asked for a full list of where Phil is speaking there in October. And so here are six opportunities to see him and say ‘G’Day’.

1) Perth 9 October...

Was Australia Always the Good Guy in 1945? With Phil Craig

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1379337

2) Melbourne with Prof Clare Wright 10 October...

Phil Craig in conversation with Clare Wright.

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1424756

3) Day Long conference in Melbourne 11 October...

Fighting to the Finish: Australia in 1945 – Strategy, Victory and Legacy – MHHV

https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/fighting-to-the-finish-australia-in-1945-strategy-victory-and-legacy/

4) Sydney with Chris Masters 12 October

Author Talk: 1945 The Reckoning - Phil Craig

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/author-talk-1945-the-reckoning-phil-craig-tickets-1248763849289

5) Sydney with Michaela Kalowski 12 October...

Author Talk and Book Launch - Phil Craig ‘1945: The Reckoning’

https://events.humanitix.com/author-talk-and-book-launch-phil-craig-1945-the-reckoning

6) Canberra with Christine Helliwell 15 October...

Marking the end of the Second World War | Australian War Memorial

https://www.awm.gov.au/the-end-of-the-second-world-war

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Phil has just returned from a week Northern Ireland - a place where he worked during ‘the Troubles’. It prompted him to think about the peace process there, today’s fashionable support for the pro-IRA (and allegedly pro Hezbollah) band called Kneecap, and why history tends to be kind to extremists.

Then Sam Kelly joins from America to discuss his fantastic, often scandalous and sometimes very funny book on why drugs explain all human history. It’s a little tongue in cheek but it reveals so many terrific new angles on some of the most celebrated figures of all time - from Alexander the Great through George Washington to Queen Victoria!

Sam’s book is available here...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Human-Histor...

Several Australia listeners have asked for a full list of where Phil is speaking there in October. And so here are six opportunities to see him and say ‘G’Day’.

1) Perth 9 October...

Was Australia Always the Good Guy in 1945? With Phil Craig

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1379337

2) Melbourne with Prof Clare Wright 10 October...

Phil Craig in conversation with Clare Wright.

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1424756

3) Day Long conference in Melbourne 11 October...

Fighting to the Finish: Australia in 1945 – Strategy, Victory and Legacy – MHHV

https://www.mhhv.org.au/event/fighting-to-the-finish-australia-in-1945-strategy-victory-and-legacy/

4) Sydney with Chris Masters 12 October

Author Talk: 1945 The Reckoning - Phil Craig

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/author-talk-1945-the-reckoning-phil-craig-tickets-1248763849289

5) Sydney with Michaela Kalowski 12 October...

Author Talk and Book Launch - Phil Craig ‘1945: The Reckoning’

https://events.humanitix.com/author-talk-and-book-launch-phil-craig-1945-the-reckoning

6) Canberra with Christine Helliwell 15 October...

Marking the end of the Second World War | Australian War Memorial

https://www.awm.gov.au/the-end-of-the-second-world-war

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Is there a peace process underway between Prince Harry and his father? Recent photographs suggest that there is. But inside the feuding royal households, just who is backing peace and who isn’t? And what will Meghan and Catherine think about it? Phil has been working his contacts to find out more.

Then Phil returns to WW2 with a completely new angle on a story he knows very well - the Battle of Britain.

Victoria Taylor has produced a new account that highlights the German experience of the battle, and it reveals some fascinating new stories about the all important summer of 1940 when the destiny of the world truly hung in the balance.

There’s also information and extracts from Phil’s new book here..

https://sites.google.com/view/1945the...

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https://www.amazon.co.uk/1945-Reckoni...

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Phil is a self confessed ‘cricket tragic’ and he’s not the only one. This week Tim Wigmore joins him to reveal the real story of Test cricket - the international version of the game. It’s a tale packed with moments of great sporting endeavour, triumphs and disasters, human courage…and a lot of scandal.

You can buy Tim’s book here...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Test-Cricket-Definitive-History-Today/dp/1529428610

There’s also information and extracts from Phil’s new book here..

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Phil returns to the secret side of WW2 with the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo. As writer Clare Mulley explains, she was the only woman to reach London from Warsaw during the Second World War as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command, and then in Britain she became the only woman to join the Polish elite Special Forces, known as the 'Silent Unseen'. She was secretly trained in the British countryside, and then the only female member of these SOE affiliated forces to be parachuted back behind enemy lines to Nazi-occupied Poland. There, whilst being hunted by the Gestapo who arrested her entire family, she took a leading role in the Warsaw Uprising and the liberation of Poland.

After the war she was demobbed as one of the most highly decorated women in Polish history. Yet the Soviet-backed post-war Communist regime not only imprisoned her, but also ensured that her remarkable story remained hidden for over forty years.

You can buy Claire's book here...

https://www.amazon.com/Agent-Zo-Fearless-Resistance-Elzbieta/dp/1399601067

There’s also information and extracts from Phil’s new book here...

https://sites.google.com/view/1945thereckoning/home

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This week we look - for the first time - at a novel and Phil is joined by writer Gill Hornby.

The Elopement is the third book in a trilogy exploring the world of Jane Austen’s family and the first in the series - Miss Austen - was recently turned into a much praised drama series by the BBC and PBS.

Gill research into the world that Jane Austen memorably described has been described as painstaking and emotionally accurate, and her books have even drawn comparisons with Austen’s own writing for their wit, sense of observation…and pointed social commentary, especially about the status of women in Regency England.

You can buy the book at our own bookshop - along with thousands of others.

The Elopement a book by Gill Hornby.

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1945 The Reckoning

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Mok O’`Keeffe returns as co-host and, together with Phil, explores the complex subject of privacy with Tiffany Jenkins, whose new book Strangers and Intimates makes the case that we need to restore the idea of a truly private life back to the heart of our society.

So when does the right to know over-rule our right to privacy?

Ranging from the Reformation through Victorian melodramas and the struggles of Monica Lewinsky in the 1990s, then coming right up to date with the ‘privacy for me, exposure for thee’ mantra of the celebrity tell-all (such as Meghan and Harry with Oprah Winfrey), this is a fascinating and wide ranging conversation.

You can buy Tiffany's book here at our own bookshop...

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