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Brexit Special

Brexit special. With a year to go before the UK leaves the EU, Jonathan Freedland and guests, including historian David Reynolds, consider multiple historical scenarios.

The Long View marks a year to go to Brexit. Jonathan Freedland & guests consider multiple historical scenarios when Britons faced a new and uncertain direction for their collective island fate. Dr Erin Goeres uncovers a little known story of 11th Century Brexit & unhappy Anglo Saxons. David Andress details how Britain weathered war & a Napoleonic trade ban but workers rights were challenged. Whilst in May 1940 a strengthened alliance with France promised a second chance for Europe and then it was gone in a Blitzkreig. As David Reynolds reveals , Churchill's heroic words masked the desperation of a leader who had no idea what awaited his people. Jonathan and contemporary commentators, Conservative M.P. Kwasi Kwarteng & Eloise Todd, C.E.O. of Best for Britain, gather to learn from the past in this lengthened Brexit Special. Ian Harte, one of the stars of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's The Last Kingdom reads the chronicles of yesteryear.

Producer: Mark Burman.

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45 minutes

Last on

Thu 29 Mar 2018 21:30
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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  • Thu 29 Mar 2018 09:00
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  • Thu 29 Mar 2018 21:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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  • The Brexit Collection

    A collection of programmes and content reflecting on the UK's departure from the EU.

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  • The Long View

    History series in which stories from the past shed light on current events