Historian Nigel Jones talks to presenter Jenny Longden in the first of an enthralling new series of history podcasts from Mail Plus. It's a situation with fascinating parallels to today: a Prime Minister hanging on the words of a widely loathed intellectual. Winston Churchill’s friendship with his controversial chief scientist, Frederick Lindemann - a statistical genius known as ‘The Prof’ - led to daily meetings, deadly gadgets such as ‘sticky bombs’, and, eventually, to a tragedy which cost hundreds of thousands of lives.

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