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Dr Jacqueline Reiter discusses the subject of her second autobiography, Sir Home Riggs Popham, an extraordinary man whose ability to persuade the British government to go along with his ideas was only matched by his ability to make a botch of them.

You can watch more of Jacqueline talking about Sir Home's career from [4:10] in her contribution to the recent Massena Society Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf4w40aV4Nk