Podcast Episodes

Slaughter On The Ice

Season 1 Episode 834

Karelian Isthmus, Finland, Christmas 1939.

The first Christmas of WW2 sees brutal fighting between the Soviet Red Army and the Finnish defence forces. Stalin's invasion has stalled in the snow, with u…

Published on 1 year ago

Highlights & High Ground

Season 1 Episode 833

James Holland and Al Murray reminisce about our record-breaking 2024 and their highlights from this year.

Including a pitch for Guy Ritchie's next blockbuster, obsessing over capturing the high groun…

Published on 1 year ago

The End Of The Home Guard

Season 1 Episode 832

Far from being a quiet end to the war, December 1944 was incredibly busy. As the Home Guard was getting demobilised, women in Nazi Germany were being forcibly volunteered...

Join James Holland and Al …

Published on 1 year ago

The Duel: The Fox That Outlived Them All (Part 2)

Season 1 Episode 831

April-May, 1945.

Karl Wolff and Ernst Karltenbrunner are running out of time, and options. Interrogated by Himmler, and Hitler himself in the ruins of Berlin, their scheming is frustrated at every tur…

Published on 1 year ago

The Duel: The Nazi Escape Plan (Part 1)

Season 1 Episode 830

Spring, 1945.

Two high-ranking SS officers in Hitler's empire, who have seen the writing on the wall for the Third Reich, are plotting their escape. With warehouses of counterfeit cash and hoards of s…

Published on 1 year ago

Speer, Snipers & Submarines

Season 1 Episode 829

Were the Americans exploiting WW2 for profit? Why shouldn't you fight at night with your canopy open? And how do you put the 'fun' into We Have Ways Festival Fünf...?

Join Jim and Al answering your qu…

Published on 1 year ago

Peleliu: A Pointless Victory (Part 2)

Season 1 Episode 828

Al Murray, James Holland and John McManus conclude their brace of episodes on the battle for Peleliu.

In a battlefield so dire, even the company dog gets killed, the boys discuss if any of the fightin…

Published on 1 year ago

Peleliu: Death Trap Island (Part 1)

Season 1 Episode 827

27th November, 1944, Palau Islands.

A 'God-Forsaken' island in the Pacific, Palau must be taken for the US strategy to reclaim the Philippines and push back the Japanese Empire.

After 2 months of blood…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Blitz, Vichy Problems & The Best Military Beards

Season 1 Episode 826

Just how good is Steve McQueen’s new film on The Blitz? Was the Vichy government really that bad in 1945? And which general had the best beard?

Al Murray and James Holland have a great catch up and an…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Listen Now: Legacy

Listen to Legacy from Wondery and Goalhanger Podcasts. Each season, historian Peter Frankopan and broadcaster Afua Hirsch tell the wild stories of the most extraordinary men and women to have ever li…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago