Nicholas Shakespeare
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Oct 19, 2026
James Dunford WoodGUEST
Nothing happened there.
James Dunford WoodGUEST
Iraq was a friendly country.
James Dunford WoodGUEST
But on April 1st, 1941...
James Dunford WoodGUEST
There was a coup d'etat in Baghdad and the royal family was thrown out and suddenly Iraq looked like it might fall.
Peter BrookerHOST
He didn't, he didn't give them a very good review, [laughs] but he wrote about them.
Peter BrookerHOST
He met Connery there back in the day, and you can read all about that man in, uh, the Nicholas Shakespeare biography.
Peter BrookerHOST
But, uh, bear in mind, by this point we'd been drinking all day and, uh, so David went for an alcohol-free cocktail, so did Dan, the, the Sock Exchange fella, and then C- [laughs] Calvin and I just looked at each other and said, "How often do we get to come to the American Bar in the Savoy and order a fucking martini?" So we, we ordered a martini each.
Peter BrookerHOST
That was delicious.