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A few weeks ago I went to France to interview Jonathan Sumption.
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I stayed overnight in his home: the beautiful Chateau de Berbiguières. While we were there we had several long conversations about medieval history, modern history, the big political issues of today and much else besides.
I wrote the interview up as a profile for the Sunday Times.
You can read it here, if you have a subscription to that excellent newspaper. Or you can squint and try to read it in this picture.
The interview profile ran to about 1,800 words.
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I tried to cram a lot in. But there was so, so much that had to be left on the cutting room floor. That was normal. It’s called journalism. But I also felt it was a pity, because Sumption is an utterly mesmerising speaker and the world’s greatest authority on the Hundred Years’ War.
He said so much I wish you could all have heard.
Jonathan sumption qc biography of rory
But you know what… you can.
Or rather, you can read it. Because here, for my Substack subscribers, is a ful