Getting Our Way is a History Documentary programme.

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Getting Our Way: Security

Series 1, episode 1

Former British Ambassador to the US, Sir Christopher Meyer, looks back at 500 years of intrigue and adventure to construct a history of British diplomacy from the inside. He begins by putting himself in the shoes of diplomats battling to protect British national security at three stages of our history - Sir Henry Killigrew in Elizabethan times, Lord Castlereagh at the Congress of Vienna following Napoleon's defeat, and David Ormsby-Gore manoeuvring to acquire nuclear weapons from a reluctant US.