{"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/6adde6c8fe64430a93ba0d0b?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Series 15 Churchill and the Navy Episode 3","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/69206d2c087c4173ab6a8c1f/1792927148559-86cb165d-004d-4915-b6e9-37e82608c0e4.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>A fiscally orthodox Chancellor anxious to balance the British budget, who resisted the demands of navy chiefs for more ships with bigger guns?</p><p><br></p><p>A prophet crying in the wilderness, calling for rearmament and fiercely criticising agreements which accomodated the naval ambitions of Nazi Germnany?</p><p><br></p><p>Or a returning hero, back in post in control of the world&#39;s largest fleet?</p><p><br></p><p>As Professor Richard Toye and Dr. Warren Dockter explain in this episode, in the space of 15 years, Winston Churchill was all three.</p>","author_name":"Prof. Richard Toye and Dr. Warren Dockter"}