Podcast Episodes

299. Family Stories - ep 13

Season 1 Episode 299

Al Murray and James Holland read family stories sent in by listeners to We Have Ways of Making You Talk.

These wartime experiences took place in the seas off Norway, in the skies over Bremen and on th…

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

298. Small Arms

Season 1 Episode 298

What makes the best gun and how complicated is the development of small arms? Al Murray and James Holland are joined by Dr Matthew Ford from the University of Sussex to talk about the small arms used…

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

297. Lack of Moral Fibre

Season 1 Episode 297

You could volunteer to fly but you couldn’t volunteer to stop.

Dr Dan Ellin, of the International Bomber Command Centre, talks to Al and James about the way in which men were judged and treated as the…

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

296. Jewish Resistance: Selma van de Perre, Part 2

Season 1 Episode 296

Part two of our extraordinary interview with Selma van de Perre, a Dutch resistance fighter who was 17 years old when the Second World War began.

Using an alias and fake ID she risked her life travell…

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

295. Family Stories - Ep 12

Season 1 Episode 295

The Second World War touched everyone’s lives, with many of our listeners’ families witnessing extraordinary events.

In this edition of We Have Ways of Making You Talk we hear of an escape from Singap…

Published on 4 years, 8 months ago

294. Jewish Resistance: Selma van de Perre, Part 1

Season 1 Episode 294

Selma van de Perre was a Dutch resistance fighter who was just 17 years old when the Second World War began.

Using an alias and fake ID she risked her life travelling across the Netherlands, deliverin…

Published on 4 years, 9 months ago

293. Mutiny

Season 1 Episode 293

A listener’s recent discovery that his uncle may have been one of the 258 British soldiers accused of mutiny in Malaya sends the podcast down an intriguing rabbit hole.

James Holland gives Al Murray a…

Published on 4 years, 9 months ago

292. Family Stories - Ep 11

Season 1 Episode 292

Listeners to We Have Ways of Making You Talk write the scripts for our Sunday morning podcasts, as Al Murray and James Holland read out their family stories from the Second World War.

This week we hea…

Published on 4 years, 9 months ago

291. Irish Fighters

Season 1 Episode 291

Although Ireland remained neutral during the war it didn’t stop Irish men joining the British Armed Forces.

Joseph Quinn joins Al Murray and James Holland to discuss why so many Irish men joined the B…

Published on 4 years, 9 months ago

290. Veritable, Trombones and The Chindits

Season 1 Episode 290

James Holland and Al Murray get their hands on the post-operation report of Veritable, review the success of the Chindits and dig deeper into the extraordinary story of some missing brass instruments…

Published on 4 years, 9 months ago