9. The Iraq War
Robert Carlyle returns to a Washington think tank in 1997 whose members sowed the seeds for the Iraq War.
Here we are in 2022 navigating cancel culture, Brexit, identity politics, war in Europe.
How did we get here? Did we miss something? Robert Carlyle is here to show us that we did. That the world we live in was shaped by the forgotten decade: the 1990s.
From Hong Kong to Moscow, Cool Britannia to No Frills flights, we travel back in time to key moments in the '90s that reverberate today in unexpected ways.
Today Robert hears about a think tank that came together in 1997 calling on President Clinton for the removal from power of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. Its members were to become President George W Bush's inner circle and, after 9/11, their long term goal was to be acheived.
Historical Consultant Margaret MacMillan
Music and Sound Design Phil Channell
Producer Neil McCarthy
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- Thu 12 May 2022 13:45麻豆社 Radio 4
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What Really Happened in the Nineties?
Robert Carlyle takes us back to moments we missed in the '90s that shaped the world today.
