ROBOT POP

It’s 1944, and in a secret basement complex sixty metres below Selfridges department store in London, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is talking to the US President about plans for a surprise attack on German forces along the Normandy coast in France.

During the long, devastating war, Churchill had become famous for giving rousing speeches that filled listeners with feelings of national pride. But the voice President Roosevelt now hears on the other end of the line sounds more like a depressed robot.

The reason for this is