Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBATTLE OF THE NORTH CAPE: The Convoy Assembles
Season 1 Episode 730
One of the most dramatic naval battles of the Second World War - high in the Arctic Circle on Boxing Day, 1943. Al Murray and James Holland set sail…
2 years, 2 months ago
USA: We Have Ways - Pacific 44
Season 1 Episode 729
James Holland and John McManus review the war in the Pacific 1944 - the year in which the US truly becomes the most powerful nation in the world.
Joh…
2 years, 2 months ago
Italian Hell: San Pietro, Monte Sammucro and Night Fighting
Season 1 Episode 728
Al Murray, James Holland and John McManus discuss the Allies' experience of fighting in the mountains of Italy in the brutal winter of 1943’ - especi…
2 years, 2 months ago
Mark Clark's Total War
Season 1 Episode 728
Al Murray and James Holland discuss the beauty of naval acronyms, the fine details of the Eureka signal and the myth of Kesselring's fine war record.…
2 years, 2 months ago
Skinning The Cat: How to Write History
Season 1 Episode 727
Al Murray and James Holland are joined by academic and author Jonathan Fennell at St Edmund Hall bar to talk about their writing processes.
From opera…
2 years, 2 months ago
Sophie Scholl and The White Rose
Season 1 Episode 726
How did the White Rose group become the defining figures of Nazi resistance after the Second World War?
Al Murray and James Holland speak to Oxford's…
2 years, 2 months ago
The Mosquito, Operation Carthage and Super Spies
Season 1 Episode 725
Al Murray and James Holland are joined by friend of the show, historian Rowland White, to talk about the most legendary aircraft of the Second World …
2 years, 3 months ago
Convoys! (Part 4)
Season 1 Episode 723
The final chapter of our Convoys series sees Al Murray and James Holland recount the final days of Convoy HX231 and the harrowing stories of those th…
2 years, 3 months ago
USA: We Have Ways - Battlefield Medicine
Season 1 Episode 722
From using cod psychology to predict battle fatigue to the enormous blood drives in 1945 - Al Murray, James Holland and John McManus discuss the ways…
2 years, 3 months ago
Convoys! (Part 3)
Season 1 Episode 721
The horror of the Atlantic convoy comes into razor sharp focus when Convoy HX231 comes into contact with the Nazi Wolfpack. In the ultimate game of c…
2 years, 3 months ago