What a delight to have Andrew Lownie visit The Vintage Read Show!
Best-selling author of Stalin's Englishmen, The Mountbattens & Traitor King.
He has been a bookseller, publisher, and journalist, writing for the Times, Telegraph, Wall Street Journal, Spectator and Guardian, and since 1988 has run his own literary agency specialising in history and biography.

You can support him by purchasing his books here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/andrew-lowni...

00:00 Introduction
00:33 What was in the Broadlands Archive?
01:35 Southampton University
02:19 Access Denied
03:32 Why wasn't it catalogued?
05:01 Catch and kill?
06:23 Denied due to Ministerial Direction
09:15 Andrew had to Lawyer Up!
10:51 Final Tribunal Decision
12:57 No one backed him up
14:55 500,000 Pounds Costs
16:30 Anyone Apologise In Private?
17:41 Briefing Against Him
18:58 Monitored By The State
22:14 Britain "Banana Republic" FOI?
22:56 The National Archives
27:04 The Footman & The Royal Archives
29:39 Visiting The Royal Archives
32:34 USA Archives
34:13 When did harassment start?
35:12 FBI Files Mountbatten The Vintage Read Show Playlist Direct Links 🔗:
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