Catherine Field
speaker
909 appearances
20 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 4d ago
Catherine Field’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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68 metres in length.
You've got 58 scenes of that famous Battle of Hastings in which William the Conqueror took the English throne and
and then became the first Norman king of England.
That's going to go back over to England.
Even though within the last couple of hours, we were all hauled into the French culture ministry to be given information on how it's going to be transported.
The main thing they said to us was, we can't tell you anything.
It is so top secret as to how this is going to be transported.
All they would tell us is that this piece of work, this tapestry, which is actually really an embroidery, this tapestry, engineers have been working since 2021 to build a cradle that this will be transported in sometime in the next couple of weeks, that it will be in a controlled environment.
There'll be no vibrations, no horizontal movement, no vertical movement.
and they are just crossing their fingers that it makes it over the channel.
We don't even know how.
We don't know if it's going to go on the train, on the ferry or by air, hoping that it will get over there because it's never been back there.
It's something that the British have always said, well, it actually does belong here because it was made in Canterbury and no one's quite sure how it ended up in France.
But the fact is that after the difficult times of Brexit and the sort of various...
disturbances in the Franco-British relationship over the last sort of decade with Boris Johnson.
It's actually the Brits are quite pleased, and so are the French.
What they're saying is that what had been the Entente Cordiale, that warm agreement between France and Britain, has now become what they're saying, an Entente Amicale, a friendship agreement thanks to the biotrapistry.
Interesting stuff.
And New Zealand and other countries continue to do that because if we don't, then ultimately you've got to stand up for trade and trade rules.
Here at the OECD, there are about 30 countries.
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