Chalke Talks for SPEAKER: Tim Bouverie

• 14. APPEASING HITLER: CHAMBERLAIN, CHURCHILL AND THE ROAD TO WAR
  Tim Bouverie ( 2019 )
  Published: 21st Jan 2021

  On 30th September 1938, Neville Chamberlain stepped off an aeroplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory. He declared it was ‘peace for our time’, but within a year Britain was at war with Germany. Tim Bouverie gives a compelling reappraisal of the immense drama of those […]

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• 170. GEORGE OSBORNE: POLITICS AND HISTORY
  George Osborne, Tim Bouverie ( 2017 )
  Published: 03rd Jan 2022

  The former Chancellor looks at politics historically and divulges the historical antecedents which inspired him and his close friend David Cameron during their six years in government together. In conversation with Tim Bouverie, this is a rare insight into politics at the very highest level from the man Andrew Marr once called the smartest politician […]

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• 174. THE VICTORIANS: TWELVE TITANS WHO FORGED BRITAIN
  Jacob Rees Mogg, Tim Bouverie ( 2018 )
  Published: 07th Feb 2022

  Many associate the Victorian era with austere social attitudes and filthy factories. Jacob Rees-Mogg discusses a very different picture of the age, one of bright ambition, bold self- belief and determined industriousness. Whether through Peel’s commitment to building free trade, Palmerston’s deft diplomacy in international affairs, or Brunel’s incredible engineering feats, the Victorians transformed the […]

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