A new series on former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, a man born in the Victorian era who led Britain into her thermonuclear age and through the Cuban Missile Crisis.

This episode starts with his horrible experiences in the trenches and takes us up to his 1954 appointment as Defence Secretary, but we take in Greek tragedy, adultery, plane crashes and a bit of Ronnie Kray on the way.

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The books I quote from today are:

• Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan, by D.R. Thorpe
• Churchill and the Bomb, by Kevin Ruane
• The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years, by Harold Macmillan

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