Podcast Episodes

12 Days of Christmas - Life and Fate

Season 1 Episode 418

Al Murray reads chapters 1 through 6 from Life and Fate written by Vasily Grossman, an epic tale of a country told through the fate of a single family, the Shaposhnikovs

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12 Days of Christmas - Suite Francaise

Season 1 Episode 417

James Holland reads a chapter from Suite Francaise, the title of a planned sequence of five novels by Irène Némirovsky, a French writer of Ukrainian-Jewish origin, who was tragically murdered before …

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12 Days of Christmas - Sword of Honour

Season 1 Episode 416

Al Murray reads a chapter from Sword of Honour written by Evelyn Waugh.

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Produced by Vasco Andrade

Exec Producer: Tony Pastor

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12 Days of Christmas - The World at Night

Season 1 Episode 415

James Holland reads a chapter from Alan Furst's The World at Night. The novel follows the upper-class life of film producer Jean Casson during the German occupation of Paris.

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12 Days of Christmas - The Cruel Sea

Season 1 Episode 414

Al Murray read a chapter from The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat. This book tells the story of the lives of a group of Royal Navy sailors fighting in the Battle of the Atlantic.

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12 Days of Christmas - The Burning Blue

Season 1 Episode 413

James Holland reads a chapter from one of his own books, The Burning Blue. This book tells the story of a small group of RAF fighter pilots who first fight in the Battle of Britain and then amid the …

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12 Days of Christmas - Bomber

Season 1 Episode 412

Al Murray reads a chapter from Bomber written by Len Deighton. Bomber is a fictionalised account of "the events relating to the last flight of an RAF Bomber over Germany on the night of June 31st, 19…

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Brothers In Arms - Live from the National Army Museum

Season 1 Episode 411

James Holland gives a guided tour of his new exhibition at the National Army Museum.

This episode was recorded live at the museum as a part of our Independent Company livestream. If you enjoyed this e…

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Grace Taylor

Season 1 Episode 410

Historian and television presenter Tessa Dunlop introduces Grace Taylor, a former royal artillery member of the anti-aircraft gun team and so-called 'Gunner Girl'. Grace volunteered far before conscr…

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Family Stories Series 2: Episode 5

Season 1 Episode 409

This week’s stories take us from cricket in Australia to the skies over Nazi Germany, from life as an evacuee to setting fire to your own tank in front of Winston Churchill. Plus the story of two wom…

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