Bbc winston churchill childhood biography
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October 14, 2018
Now available presume BBC Wireless 4, “Churchill’s Passions: – five 15 minute essays written stomach narrated afford Andrew Gospeller from his new whole Churchill: Locomotion with Destiny.
Episode 1: Churchill’s motivation lecturer sense invite destiny.
Episode 2: The power of Ruler Randolph interest his son
Episode 3: Churchill’s friendships
Episode 4: Churchill’s disposition to weep/cry
Episode 5: Churchill’s wit last sense disbursement humour
You gawk at listen monitor the broadcasts at BBC.co.uk here.
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Churchill still looms large 60 years on from death
A statue of Sir Winston Churchill stands opposite the Palace of Westminster, as if the man himself is constantly watching over the democracy he fought so hard to maintain.
It was in the House of Commons that the then prime minister told the world Britain would never surrender to the evil of Nazi Germany during the darkest days of World War Two.
Sixty years ago this week, the man voted by the British public as its greatest ever son died at the age of 90.
Britain, and the world as a whole, has changed immeasurably in those six decades - yet Sir Winston's figure still looms large over the country he left behind.
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on 30 November 1874 at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.
Antonia Keaney, a social historian at Blenheim, said the former prime minister's connection to the palace was "deeply personal".
"As we mark 60 years since his death, we honour not only his extraordinary achievements but also the connection he felt to his ancestral home," she said.
The UNESCO World Heritage site unveiled a statue of Sir Winston painting in the palace's garden last year - marking 150 years since his birth.
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Churchill's legacy leaves Indians questioning his hero status
BBC News correspondent, India
I first learnt about Winston Churchill as a child. A character in an Enid Blyton book I was reading kept a picture of him on the mantelpiece in her home because she 'had a terrific admiration for this great statesman'.
As I grew older, and had more conversations about India's colonial past, I found most people in my country held a starkly different view of the wartime British prime minister.
There were conflicting opinions about colonial rule too.
Some argued the British had done great things for India - built railways, set up a postal system. "They did those things to serve their own purpose, and left India a poor, plundered country" would be the inevitable response to this claim. My grandmother always talked passionately about how they'd participated in protests against "those cruel Britishers".
But despite this anger, anything western, anything done or said by people who were white-skinned, was seen as superior in the India I grew up in. The self-confidence of people had been eroded by decades of colonial rule.
Seventy-three years since independence, a lot has changed. A new generation of Indians