Inside the Foreign Office - Brits in Trouble The way most Britons come into contact with the Foreign Office is when they get int...o trouble overseas. We follow three diplomats as they try to aid Brits who unexpectedly find themselves in serious trouble on the other side of the world. 10 young backpackers are thrown into a squalid overcrowded jail in Cambodia, facing pornography charges they all deny; an elderly couple haven’t been heard from since their house was destroyed by the most powerful hurricane ever to hit the Caribbean; and a 17-
Inside the Foreign Office - Brave New World As diplomats prepare for the post-Brexit world, film-maker Michael Waldman eavesdro...ps on uninhibited discussions in Whitehall, in far-flung embassies in Nigeria and Mongolia and on the Foreign Secretary’s RAF plane around Europe. Senior ambassadors are summoned back to London to discuss how to make ‘Global Britain’ a reality after the UK leaves the European Union. As the chief civil servant, Sir Simon McDonald has the responsibility to advise whoever is the Foreign Secretary – and to ral
Potsdam programme 3 : the deal The third programme concentrates on the terms of the negotiation and compares those... issues which were too important to individual powers for them to be prepared to negotiate, with those mere peripheral issues on which some kind of agreement could be reached after prolonged negotiation. Spain and the recognition of the Franco regime is taken as an example of the former, and reparations and the position of the German/Polish border as examples of the latter. Again these issues are analysed using dr
Potsdam programme 1 : the meeting This programme explains the conflict of interests that divided the Allies during th...eir discussions at Potsdam after the Second World War.