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Season 1 Episode 309
This is the show written by our listeners. It includes five remarkable war time stories of hidden airmen in Holland, Germans on the Eastern Front, and the horrors of a U-boat attack in the mid Atlant…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
308. Bletchley Girls
Season 1 Episode 308
Betty Webb spent the war working as a code breaker at Bletchley Park, working on captured German and Japanese radio messages.
After the war she moved to Washington DC to assist the Americans with thei…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
307. Anzac Day
Season 1 Episode 307
The myth suggests Britain stood alone but the truth was different. In the week of Anzac Day Al Murray and James Holland discuss the roles of Australian and New Zealand soldiers in the war against the…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
306. Family Stories - Ep 15
Season 1 Episode 306
This week we hear more of your war time family stories. Including an account of a daring air mission that ended in dramatic fashion; being commanded by Hollywood star David Niven; and a father and so…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
305. Guy Martin - Battle of Britain
Season 1 Episode 305
Adrenaline junkie Guy Martin tells Al Murray and James Holland about his new series for Channel 4 in which he trains to fly a Hurricane and then takes part in a dogfight with a Messerschmitt.
Guy disc…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
304. Stalingrad and The Wehrmacht
Season 1 Episode 304
The Eastern Front is our focus as German historian Jens Wehner joins Al Murray and James Holland.
Jens is curator of the Dresden Military History museum, but his focus in this podcast is further east …
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
303. Enigma and Escapees
Season 1 Episode 303
Britain’s war time intelligence operations are the subject of discussion as Al Murray and James Holland exchange notes on their latest reading matter, Behind the Enigma: The Authorised History of GCH…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
302. Family Stories - Ep 14
Season 1 Episode 302
This week we hear more of your war time family stories. Including the story of an alarming experience in a London hospital’s labour ward during an air raid; how a prisoner in a labour camp in Nagasak…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
301. The Remains of War
Season 1 Episode 301
Steve Ballinger MBE removes ordnance from former sites of conflict. He has spent the last decade removing 60,000+ mines, shrapnel and ordnance from the tiny island of Peleliu. He talks to James and A…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago
300. Prince Philip
Season 1 Episode 300
In the wake of his death, Al Murray and James Holland discuss the Duke of Edinburgh's war record and his role in the Royal Navy.
They also answer questions on Civilian Affairs and Hanz Speidels' drin…
Published on 4 years, 8 months ago