The Deep Dive interview with Brooks Spector and more about Chance Brothers

This morning ChaiFM published the interview I recorded with Brooks Spector, a former US diplomat and now host on the radio station and associate editor of Daily Maverick.

Click here to listen to the interview- (you need to scroll down on the page until you reach it)

We had a wide-ranging discussion covering the role of portfolio committees in Parliament, how the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition will influence policy over the next 5 years, the chances of the government of national unity succeeding, and ending on my family's contribution to industrialisation in 19th century Britain and the world through its leadership in glass manufacturing and lighthouse engineering. 

I really enjoyed the discussion, which I hope listeners found enlightening because so much of what happens in Parliament is behind closed doors and very obscure to the general public. 

At the end of our chat we spoke about the book I wrote with Peter Williams, Lighthouses: The race to illuminate the world, published by New Holland in 2008 - you can read more about it on my website www.tobychance.com

Coincidentally, this week also saw the release of David Encill's first volume on the history of Chance Brothers which he has been labouring over for 15 years - you can download it for free here https://www.chancebrothers.uk/. It's an amazing piece of work and follows on from two other books David wrote about some of the firm's glass products, which are available here https://www.chanceglass.net/