anyway, the prof was an important person for grandpapa because grandpapa could bat ideas back and forth with him on science, and it wasn't the house of commons. he could try to work out his own ideas and what he felt and understood. so, the prof was a very important person, and it is one of the things i have been interested in in this book. so now, i give you the wonderful kevin ruane, who will tell us some things about his book. [applause] kevin: thank you, edwina. is this mic ok? thank you, a very generous introduction. it is great to be back again, so thank you to the whole family for giving me this platform two years in a row. it is a great honor. i thought i would begin by saying a little bit about how i came to write this book. how i came to churchill and the bomb. big man, big subject. it really began about five years ago, when i was asked to do work by the churchill archives. that is to say the online digital repository of all of churchill's papers, which you have heard about from lawrence amongst others already in the conference. close to one million individual images, so from

anyway, the prof was an important person for grandpapa because he could -- he could grandpapa could bat ideas back and forth with him on science. and it wasn't the house of commons. he could just find out, try to work out his own ideas and what he felt and understood. so the prof was a very important person. and that's one of the things that i've been interested in this book. so now i give you the wonderful kevin ruane, who will tell us some things about his book. [ applause ] >> thank you, edwina. is this my -- okay. thank you, edwina. very generous introduction. and it's great to be back again. so thank you to michael bishop and the ics, the whole family for giving me this platform now two years in a row. it's a great honor. i begin by saying a little bit about how i came to write this book, how i came to "churchill and the bomb." it's a big man, a big subject. it really began about five years ago when i was asked to do some work by the churchill archive. that's to say the online digital repository of virtually all of churchill's paper, which you heard about from lawrence amongst othe

correction -- the proud grandpapa's gonna be passing out cigars.roud papa's gonna be passing out, like... whatever it is tree-huggin' papas pass out. >> liam: hmm.

that will be a very interesting one because, for me, because he had such a long history with grandpapa. he is going -- he is working on now something that i am really, really longing to get my hands on, but it's not in physical form yet. it's a book on graham green, and it's going to be called "graham green in love and war." so there is a lot to be said. i think that it's going to show how fact and fiction is hard to separate. and we get a bit of that today here. nobody thought that was funny. okay. [ laughter ] anyway, kevin's book "churchill and the bomb, in war and cold war" is timely today. it covers, amongst other things, the close relationship with lord charwell. i knew him slightly, like i was a fly on the wall because he was often at chartwall. he wasn't -- he didn't relate well -- i mean, he didn't relate much to the children or the children didn't relate much to him. we had a much more fun time with monty, field marshal montgomery who would play croquette and took an interest in people. it was important for grand papa because he could bat ideas back and forth with him on scie