I can smell the scotch from here

@benthejrporter

5 жыл бұрын

He was an alcoholic. Drank himself to death.

@ianreynolds8552

5 жыл бұрын

@@benthejrporter I don t agree with what he did, but with fascism on the rise I can understand why he did it

@Jorge-yy3dd

4 жыл бұрын

Just an hilarious imitation of inebriated Churchill by someone who knew him first hand without being impressed a bit

@benthejrporter

4 жыл бұрын

@@Jorge-yy3dd Have you seen the play with Benedict Cumberbatch?

@benthejrporter

4 жыл бұрын

@@ianreynolds8552 Yes, it was a different world in those days. I was a trade unionist once, but changed my mind. I know what it feels like to be on that side of the fence.

What a document 👍✌️

@dianamincher6479

2 жыл бұрын

I shot my diplomatic bolt!

The Cambridge five are the best example of university students joining a cause, the question asked was do you want to defeat the Nazi's and do you want peace, answer of course yes, the question they forgot to ask was "who is asking"

@MargotDarby

Жыл бұрын

No it wasn't about Nazis, because they were hardly on the radar in the early 30s when Guy Burgess was at Trinity College Cambridge. Communism was a movement, more than a fad. Somehow it appealed to Godless people who liked to think they were very bright. Part of its sales pitch.

Shit he was cut short.

Sounds incredibly pissed.

@benthejrporter

5 жыл бұрын

He always was.

@Jorge-yy3dd

4 жыл бұрын

No, when he speaks it is perfectly clear but then he imitates Churchill who was often inebriated and does a bloody good imitation

@ianreynolds8552

3 жыл бұрын

@@benthejrporter no he was nt or he would nt have got the jobs or positions he held

@MatthewMcVeagh

2 жыл бұрын

@@ianreynolds8552 He was routinely pissed eventually, by the late 40s/50s. He regretted the path he'd taken.

@cosmicmusicreynolds3266

Ай бұрын

In these days things out desperate for all ,not just the working class. Fascism spreding

Well that was one of the most painful things I've heard in a while. What was the point of this whole ramble? I presume everyone else present was embarrassed. He may have been imitating a pissed Churchill but he was clearly multiple sheets to the wind himself. I wonder when it was recorded too. And surely Ch4 can't have played the whole thing on the news?!

@MargotDarby

Жыл бұрын

It was recorded in late April or early May 1951, late at night at a friend's apartment in Manhattan. Guy was sailing on the Queen Mary next afternoon. In the morning he went into a panic about the tape and went over to listen to it to make sure it was okay. It was. He boarded the QM almost at the last minute. Guy had just been sacked by the British Embassy in Washington. Now he was going back to London to resign from the FO and maybe get a job writing for the Daily Telegraph. Also he had to advise Donald Maclean, also with the Foreign Office, that MI5 and the FBI were onto him for his activities in the embassy in Washington in 1945, when he was passing atom bomb information to the Soviets. Guy was advised to get Donald out of the country and speed him on his way to Moscow. They took a night boat to France n May 25, then trains and planes to Prague. Here Guy was supposed to turn back, but the Soviet handlers wouldn't let him go home.

@MatthewMcVeagh

Жыл бұрын

@@MargotDarby Thanks for the information.

Churchill patted the car?

a brilliant recording and recollection by a brilliant man.

A man with a concience

@johntomlinson6849

3 жыл бұрын

A fool of a man, supporting a psycho like Stalin

@willmakesvids

3 жыл бұрын

Not really. He continued to live in arrogant wealth late on in life and seemed to show little remorse for what he did.

@williamneumyer7147

Жыл бұрын

Is that anything like a conscience?

Guy Burgess was intelligent but misguided. Shocked like many by the growth of fascism. He did what thought was right although it was a tragedy!

Burgess was, of course, no damn good, but "Herr Beans" is pretty funny.

churchill who ?

Sold out info for money basically a traitor!

@colinstrugnell3359

Жыл бұрын

No, he never spied for money. He never needed to. Bottom line, Burgess loved the kick of the double agent. It stimulated him. He admitted it thus quite openly. Born into a class that cherished Nazi philosophy to any other, Burgess distrusted his Old Etonian and Public school elites and gave preference to the Soviets although he paid no real allegiance to "their cause," unlike Philby and Maclean who were committed communists. Burgess was an Hedonistic, alcoholic, homosexual bordering on paedophilia and was just along for the ride. God knows how he survived Moscow. A traitor to what, though ? A devout communist or nazi or fanatical moslem or looney left or right may have an devout love of country but abhor its elite masters. To overthrow them will bring a better way of life to his countrymen ( in the mind of your "traitor). That cannot be treason. Philby and Maclean and Blake are more interesting as characters.

@cosmicmusicreynolds3266

4 ай бұрын

He did it for principals

Waste of time could not understand

@ianreynolds8552

5 жыл бұрын

Listen to what he says

@kathryngrant2676

4 жыл бұрын

Obviously not acquainted with the King’s English.

@trishfowlie3145

4 жыл бұрын

He’s often mimicking Churchill’s manner of speech. Posh folk talked like that in 1930s. Even the Queen has modified her accent over time.

@aristeon5908

3 жыл бұрын

@@trishfowlie3145 Meanwhile, an increasingly large number of British people can't pronounce the t sound; be'er, ma'er, wa'er, tha'is. I definitely prefer the old RP to the current trends

@ianreynolds8552

3 жыл бұрын

Understand what ..... the rise of fascism and the stark choice people were faced with. These were under certain times with the threat of fascism