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Jonathan Dimbleby on Harry Hopkins

Jonathan Dimbleby picks Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's right hand man in World War Two.

On May 10 1940, the Germans invaded the Low Countries, Winston Churchill became prime minister, and Harry Hopkins moved in to the White House. This remarkable man was President Roosevelt's closest confidante until the end of the war. A principal architect of the New Deal, he was the president's first envoy to meet Churchill and was sent off to meet Stalin too. But what also impresses his nominator, Jonathan Dimbleby, is his courage - Harry Hopkins had stomach cancer and died in 1946.
Features biographer David Roll, author of The Hopkins Touch, plus impressive archive of Hopkins on the 大象传媒.
Presented by Matthew Parris
Produced in Bristol by Miles Warde

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Fri 7 May 2021 23:00

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