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Great Lives: US Ambassador Matthew Barzun on JG Winant

US Ambassador Matthew Barzun on JG Winant

BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, US Ambassador Matthew Barzun on JG Winant

Matthew Parris meets US Ambassador Matthew Barzun to talk about his wartime predecessor.

American Ambassador Matthew Barzun chooses his wartime UK predecessor, John Gil Winant. With Matthew Parris. From 2015.

Matthew Parris meets the American Ambassador Matthew Barzun whose choice of great life is his wartime predecessor, John Gil Winant - the man widely held to have helped seal the special relationship between Britain and America and to have brought the US into the war effort.

Producer: Maggie Ayre

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.

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