I just listened to the second sound file... Neville does seem like a peacenik doesn’t he?
The man thoroughly believed his own hype and was immersed in the fantasy.
Truly in those audios he sounds crestfallen to me. I think he honestly believed that he could prevent war. I think the blinders being lifted last March after the rump of Czechoslovakia was absorbed really was quite a blow. His ideals of appeasement had failed and everything here was just going through the motions. I hear a broken man.