{"id":251541,"date":"2025-06-10T18:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/the-making-of-the-wargame-podcast-with-sir-ben-wallace-and-deborah-haynes\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T18:00:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T17:00:42","slug":"the-making-of-the-wargame-podcast-with-sir-ben-wallace-and-deborah-haynes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/the-making-of-the-wargame-podcast-with-sir-ben-wallace-and-deborah-haynes\/","title":{"rendered":"The making of The Wargame podcast with Sir Ben Wallace and Deborah Haynes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.ytimg.com\/vi\/jk1saR5Cq0g\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"The making of The Wargame podcast with Sir Ben Wallace and Deborah Haynes\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jk1saR5Cq0g\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The Wargame was designed to test the state of the UK&#8217;s defences and national resilience after decades of cuts to military spending after the end of the Cold War.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nA year in the making, the podcast was recorded in just one day with a cast of politicians and their advisers, all of whom had worked at the top levels of the British government.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nIn today&#8217;s episode, Dominic Waghorn talks to security and defence editor Deborah Haynes who created and wrote The Wargame about why she thought it was so important to make the podcast &#8211; and to former defence secretary Sir Ben Wallace, who plays the prime minister.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nProducer: Emily Hulme\u00a0<br \/>\nEditor: Wendy Parker\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wargame was designed to test the state of the UK&#8217;s defences and national resilience after decades of cuts to military spending after the end of the Cold War.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 A year in the making, the podcast was recorded in just one day with a cast of politicians and their advisers, all of whom had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":251542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128811],"tags":[131346,131088,145497],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-251541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sky-news","tag-designed","tag-test","tag-wargame"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The making of The Wargame podcast with Sir Ben Wallace and Deborah Haynes | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch The making of The Wargame podcast with Sir Ben Wallace and Deborah Haynes for free, here on News ISC. 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