
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


The writer and critic AA Gill nominates Neville Chamberlain as his great life.
But his choice is someone who is regarded as one of the worst Prime Ministers Britain has ever had. Chamberlain is someone entrenched in popular legend, as the man who failed to stand up to Hitler.
So will AA Gill’s choice stand up to the scrutiny and will he be able to convince presenter Matthew Parris that this was a great life?
To help tell the story of Arthur Neville Chamberlain they are joined by Stuart Ball, Professor of Modern British History at the University of Leicester.
Producer: Perminder Khatkar
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2016.
By BBC Radio 44.2
465465 ratings
The writer and critic AA Gill nominates Neville Chamberlain as his great life.
But his choice is someone who is regarded as one of the worst Prime Ministers Britain has ever had. Chamberlain is someone entrenched in popular legend, as the man who failed to stand up to Hitler.
So will AA Gill’s choice stand up to the scrutiny and will he be able to convince presenter Matthew Parris that this was a great life?
To help tell the story of Arthur Neville Chamberlain they are joined by Stuart Ball, Professor of Modern British History at the University of Leicester.
Producer: Perminder Khatkar
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2016.

7,874 Listeners

378 Listeners

1,074 Listeners

5,565 Listeners

1,805 Listeners

979 Listeners

615 Listeners

299 Listeners

1,761 Listeners

1,051 Listeners

2,000 Listeners

109 Listeners

46 Listeners

307 Listeners

131 Listeners

160 Listeners

243 Listeners

51 Listeners

3,222 Listeners

787 Listeners

1,016 Listeners

108 Listeners

42 Listeners