Podcast Episodes

272. British Resistance

Season 1 Episode 272

Britain was the only country to prepare a resistance movement before it was needed. Andrew Chatterton joins Al and James to discuss the history of th…

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271. Convoys and the Triple Nickels

Season 1 Episode 271

Al Murray and James Holland discuss the massive effort to move fighting men across the world.

Plus the story of an American airborne battalion made up…

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270. Family Stories - Ep 4

Season 1 Episode 270

This week in our Family Stories series we hear your tales of German spies, runaway barrage balloons and a witness to the Hiroshima atom bomb.

With tha…

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269. Training for Battle

Season 1 Episode 269

Professor John Buckley joins Al Murray and James Holland to discuss the Allies’ approach to training. Armoured operations and the Normandy campaign a…

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268. Steel not Flesh

Season 1 Episode 268

Al Murray and James Holland discuss the Allies’ policy of using liberal amounts of ammunition as a way of conserving the lives of their men.

We Have W…

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267. Family Stories - Ep 3

Season 1 Episode 267

In this week’s episode of our Family Stories series we hear your tales of the first wedding after the war, surviving the Blitz and a harrowing visit …

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266. The Wings of Pegasus, By George Chatterton - Episode 19

Season 1 Episode 266

Brigadier George Chatterton's memoirs, read by Al Murray, tell the extraordinary story of his time as a soldier for the British Army who then went on…

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265. Landing Craft

Season 1 Episode 265

Archeologist and historian Stephen Fisher joins Al Murray and James Holland to discuss the organisational challenges faced by the Allies in the plann…

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264. The Wings of Pegasus, By George Chatterton - Episode 18

Season 1 Episode 264

Brigadier George Chatterton's memoirs, read by Al Murray, tell the extraordinary story of his time as a soldier for the British Army who then went on…

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263. Inge Auerbacher

Season 1 Episode 263

Inge Auerbacher was born in Germany in 1934. She spent three years in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp in Czechoslovakia, where she wa…

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