Patrick Geoghegan

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1,107 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 7 Aug

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Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan · Mussolini and Fascist Italy · 10 Jun 2026 podcast

Europe. voice-verified

It's published in Hardback by Chattison Windus. voice-verified

The author is Carline Moorhead. voice-verified

And Caroline, very welcome to the show. voice-verified

Thank you very much. voice-verified

Etta had this extraordinary career. voice-verified

It was only in nineteen ninety-five that she died, but in a way the last fifty years of her life was almost like an epilogue because in a way all the all the significant dramatic stuff happens before that and it was dealing with the impact and the legacy of that in the final years. voice-verified

Now we've been talking about Mussolini in myth and memory and you very much see the myths and the memories when it comes to her story and connected to her father's story because she's been very much, as you say in the introduction, distorted, romanticised, um and and very much rewritten to suit different agendas and a uh in the years after her life. voice-verified

You describe her in the book as Mussolini's favourite child but also fascism's most exotic star. voice-verified

And tell us about her early life, 'cause she was born in nineteen ten, but I suppose in those early years up until her father taking taking power, she was the the daughter of a of a journalist and editor, you know, there wasn't a huge amount of money, and you know, her life changed very dramatically in nineteen twenty two. voice-verified

And what was her role in I suppose let's look at the nineteen twenties first of all? voice-verified

What was her role in that new fascist state? voice-verified

Because as you say, she uh she she played that important role in terms of uh taking over from her mother, that uh how wild was she, how influential was she? voice-verified

And you know, that intriguing subtitle of the book, The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe, just how dangerous was she, just how voice-verified

How influential was she? voice-verified

At one point she told a journalist, this is in later years, that her father was the only man she had ever loved. voice-verified

So I wonder what does that say about the marriage? voice-verified

Because as you show it, it was quite turbulent. voice-verified

Uh there w there definitely seems to have been uh affairs and infidelities on both sides, that uh he seems to have been a a complete womanizer, that uh how how strong was that relationship? voice-verified

relationship and and what did it mean in terms of again her her role given that he was the foreign minister a at f at this crucial period. voice-verified

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