Podcast Episodes

EL ALAMEIN WEEK - Day 3

Season 1 Episode 524

To remember 80 years since the start of the Second Battle of El Alamein, We Have Ways are releasing a week’s worth of specials about the North African battle.

On the third day of the series, Al and Ja…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

EL ALAMEIN WEEK - Day 2

Season 1 Episode 523

To remember 80 years since the start of the Second Battle of El Alamein, We Have Ways are releasing a week’s worth of specials about the North African battle.

Today, Al and James talk about the retrea…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

EL ALAMEIN WEEK - Day 1

Season 1 Episode 522

To remember 80 years since the start of the Second Battle of El Alamein, We Have Ways are releasing a week’s worth of specials about the North African battle.

In the first episode, Al and James discus…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Difficulties of the Italian campaign

Season 1 Episode 521

James has been in Italy to try and find out about the problems the Allies would have faced in 1943. He tells Al why criticism of the campaign is unfair given the complications of terrain, weather and…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

WHWF - Berlin 45

Season 1 Episode 520

The final year of the war saw savage fighting and horrific civilian suffering, nowhere more than in Berlin. Experts on

the period Alex Ritchie, Waitman Wade Beorn, and Bastiaan Willems describe the ho…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

Peter White - To The Very End

Season 1 Episode 519

The boys discuss Al Murray's new book - 'Command: How The Allies Learned to Win The Second World War' which is out today. Al shares a chapter on Peter White.

Command is out now, to buy a copy please v…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

D-Day Memorial

Season 1 Episode 518

During James Holland’s recent trip to the US he visited Bedford, Virginia, where he explored the National D-Day Memorial, as well as researching the journey of 'the Bedford Boys'.

https://coles-books.…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago

The War In China

Season 1 Episode 517

Of all the theatres in the Second World War China is perhaps the least known and little understood. Renowned expert Rana Mitter tells the story of China's resistance against the Japanese forces to Al…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Command

Season 1 Episode 516

Al and James take a deep dive into Al's recently published book, Command: How the Allies Learned to Win the Second World War. 

https://coles-books.co.uk/command-by-al-murray-signed-edition 

A Goalhange…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago

Blame Game

Season 1 Episode 515

As the Nazi regime began to unravel, a number of German civil servants dared to criticise the high command for their failure to prosecute the war successfully. James Holland and Al Murray discuss thi…

Published on 3 years, 3 months ago