Arts & Ideas

Diplomacy from Ancient Greece to Trump


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Anne McElvoy and guests discuss the art of diplomacy from Ancient Greece to the Tudors and today's shifting international security as well as how its portrayed on screen in dramas like the BBC's Wolf Hall and the Netflix series The Diplomat. Her guests include:

Former EU and US Ambassador Sir Nigel Sheinwald .
Bronwen Maddox from the think tank Chatham House.
Historian Dr Clare Jackson who is the author of Devil Land England Under Seige 1588-1688.
Dr Holly Furneaux, Professor at Cardiff University talks about her research into "enemy intimacy" which is part of a new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London called War and the Mind.

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