At first glance, Anthony Scaramucci and Dominic Sandbrook make an unlikely duo. One – known to friends and detractors as ‘The Mooch’ – is a silver-tongued businessman with quiffed hair and an Italian-American twanged voice, whose 11 day stint as Donald Trump’s communications director in 2017 in his first term as President makes Liz Truss look seasoned. The other is an Oxford educated historian with a roster of BBC documentaries under his belt and an RP accent.
As with seemingly everything these days, the link is Gary Lineker. Sandbrook is one half of Goalhanger Productions’ podcast powerhouse the Rest Is History, while Scaramucci co-hosts the Rest is Politics US alongside the BBC’s Katty Kay.
