Tristan Redman
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1,489 appearances
30 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 23 Aug
Tristan Redman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And as he put it, helping French people to work more, to earn more.
But then in 2008, global events get in the way.
Financial markets across the world have plummeted in spite of efforts by the government.
We were in the midst of the financial crisis.
At this point, Christine Lagarde is Sarkozy's finance minister.
Here, more than £93bn was wiped off the value of shares.
The global economy has gone into freefall.
But Sarkozy seizes the situation by the scruff of its neck.
Confidence was drifting.
Banks were in the balance.
He struck up a particular friendship at that moment with Gordon Brown.
It's quite an unusual pairing.
What do you think was behind that friendship?
I think people don't really remember that well, that Sarkozy and Gordon Brown had a kind of bromance for a while.
President Sarkozy, mon ami, you are truly a force of nature.
It was a very happy couple.
Lagarde believes that Sarkozy's action here is fundamental.
She says he helped save the global economy from complete collapse.
These are still the early days of Sarkozy's five-year presidency and the activity is fast and furious.
And in the middle of it all, he even divorces his wife, Cecilia, and then in short order, he meets and marries an Italian supermodel, Carla Bruni.
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