{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/69206d2c087c4173ab6a8c1f/6acff2ca68b7ce6ffb399892?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Series 15: Churchill and the Navy  Episode 1","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/69206d2c087c4173ab6a8c1f/1792012953350-a251a57d-21e2-498d-af92-8099c40177c5.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>In 1911, Winston Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. The minister in charge of the Royal Navy, the most powerful sea force on Earth.</p><p><br></p><p>Professor Richard Toye and Dr. Warren Dockter explain how Churchill threw himself into the task, modernising the fleet and the conditions of its servicemen, challenging naval traditions which he dismissed as &quot;rum, sodomy and the lash&quot;.</p><p><br></p><p>And they show how Churchill&#39;s efforts meant that when war came in 1914, the navy was ready.</p>","author_name":"Prof. Richard Toye and Dr. Warren Dockter"}