
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Jonathan Lynn, author of Yes, Minister talks to Philip Dodd about his new play Patriotic Traitor which imagines the relationship between Petain and de Gaulle as that of father and son and follows them from their first meeting in World War I to the end of the Second World War, by which time, each had sentenced the other to death.
Suhdir Hazareesingh, author of In The Shadow of the General: Modern France and the Myth of de Gaulle, and writer and political columnist, Anne Elisabeth Moutet join Daniel Lee, New Generation Thinker and author of Pétain's Jewish Children to discuss with Philip Dodd the different notions of France that Petain and de Gaulle fought for and their post-war legacies.
And as a new exhibition Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art opens at London's National Gallery, Philip Dodd talks to curator Christopher Riopelle about the romantic pessmism of Eugene Delacroix and his visions for both art and the future of society.
The Patriotic Traitor is at the Park Theatre in London from February 17th to March 19th.
Producer: Jacqueline Smith
By BBC Radio 44.3
286286 ratings
Jonathan Lynn, author of Yes, Minister talks to Philip Dodd about his new play Patriotic Traitor which imagines the relationship between Petain and de Gaulle as that of father and son and follows them from their first meeting in World War I to the end of the Second World War, by which time, each had sentenced the other to death.
Suhdir Hazareesingh, author of In The Shadow of the General: Modern France and the Myth of de Gaulle, and writer and political columnist, Anne Elisabeth Moutet join Daniel Lee, New Generation Thinker and author of Pétain's Jewish Children to discuss with Philip Dodd the different notions of France that Petain and de Gaulle fought for and their post-war legacies.
And as a new exhibition Delacroix and the Rise of Modern Art opens at London's National Gallery, Philip Dodd talks to curator Christopher Riopelle about the romantic pessmism of Eugene Delacroix and his visions for both art and the future of society.
The Patriotic Traitor is at the Park Theatre in London from February 17th to March 19th.
Producer: Jacqueline Smith

7,665 Listeners

304 Listeners

1,078 Listeners

1,047 Listeners

5,530 Listeners

1,794 Listeners

606 Listeners

1,770 Listeners

1,038 Listeners

1,923 Listeners

492 Listeners

582 Listeners

134 Listeners

128 Listeners

164 Listeners

245 Listeners

183 Listeners

210 Listeners

3,169 Listeners

1,003 Listeners

146 Listeners

118 Listeners

88 Listeners

329 Listeners