In the second episode of this new podcast on the dramatic life of WInston Churchill, Professor Richard Toye and Dr. Warren Dockter explore the military and political crises which propelled Winston Churchill into office as Britain's Prime Minister.

How was it that a disastrous operation against the Nazis in Norway came to benefit Churchill, when as the minister in charge of the Royal Navy, he bore primary responsibility for the fiasco? We'll reveal that Churchill himself couldn't quite understand...

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