WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
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Saving the Nation’s Art
27 januari 2022 · 47 min
What measures did the government put in place to protect great works of art and culture from air raids? Al Murray and James Holland speak to archivist and historian Caroline Shenton to find out more.
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Midway
25 januari 2022 · 43 min
Al and James discuss the Mafia’s role in the Second World War, they also talk about Midway and the war in the Pacific.
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Family Stories Series 2: Episode 8
23 januari 2022 · 20 min
This week’s stories include a sailor who witnessed the atomic bomb exploding and lived to tell the tale, a medical emergency solved by a POW, a training exercise with an explosive ending and parents whose paths first crossed in wartime.
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The Canadian Story
20 januari 2022 · 54 min
Al Murray and James Holland are joined by one of Canada's leading military historians Mark Zuehlke to discuss the nation's effort throughout the Second World War.
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Who Betrayed Jean Moulin
18 januari 2022 · 54 min
Al and James discuss the arrest of Jean Moulin and the involvement of SIS. They also talk about All Arms cooperation and British signalling problems.
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Family Stories Series 2: Episode 7
16 januari 2022 · 22 min
This week’s stories take us from the attempts to sink the Tirpitz, through a tale of survival straight out of Das Boot, to life through a child’s eyes in occupied Holland and on to an Arctic convoy with a dark secret.
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From Normandy to the Scheldt
13 januari 2022 · 1 uur 7 min
We take a new look at the fighting post D-Day with Canadian expert Marc Milner. Why has the Canadian contribution in north west Europe been downplayed?
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Jungle Training
11 januari 2022 · 52 min
Al Murray and James Holland examine training methods for Allied forces faced with fighting the Japanese in Burma. Lees meer
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Family Stories Series 2: Episode 6
9 januari 2022 · 21 min
This week’s stories take us from the skies with Bomber Command in the company of a Mad Dane, through defying the Nazis from within and suffering the terrible consequences, to the life of children under German occupation and seeing one of Hitler’s right-hand men behind bars. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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25-pounders and the Garrison Artillery Volunteers
6 januari 2022 · 45 min
Are you having We Have Ways Festival withdrawal symptoms? You're in luck!
Today's episode is a live recording from the 2021 event. The boys talk field guns, howitzers, quads, and much much more. Come for the conversation with the Garrison Artillery Volunteers' Keith Brigstock, stay for the firing of a 25-pounder live on the pod!
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12 Days of Christmas - The Camomile Lawn
5 januari 2022 · 22 min
Willow Murray reads a chapter from The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley. The book tells the story of a family reliving their memories of the Second World War at a funeral, 50 years later.
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12 Days of Christmas - A Midnight Clear
4 januari 2022 · 36 min
Al Murray read a chapter from A Midnight Clear written by William Wharton. The book follows six American soldiers who are sent to keep watch at a German outpost in the Ardennes.
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12 Days of Christmas - The Thin Red Line
3 januari 2022 · 31 min
James Holland reads a chapter from one of his favourite books, The Thin Red Line. Written by James Jones, the book draws upon his own experience at the Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse during World War II's Guadalcanal campaign.
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12 Days of Christmas - Warriors for the Working Day
2 januari 2022 · 38 min
Al reads a chapter from Warriors for the Working Day. The novel is based on events from June 1944, during the Battle of Normandy, to the invasion of Germany in the Spring of 1945. The book describes fighting by the men of a small unit of British tanks during this period, with the focus on one tank crew. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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12 Days of Christmas - The Narrow Road to the Deep North
1 januari 2022 · 25 min
James Holland reads from Richard Flannagan's "The Narrow Road to the Deep North", a novel that tells the story of a far east prisoner of war during the construction of the Burma Railway. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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12 Days of Christmas - Life and Fate
31 december 2021 · 36 min
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
30 december 2021 · 28 min
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 she could complete all five volumes.
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12 Days of Christmas - Sword of Honour
29 december 2021 · 38 min
Al Murray reads a chapter from Sword of Honour written by Evelyn Waugh.
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12 Days of Christmas - The World at Night
28 december 2021 · 24 min
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
27 december 2021 · 46 min
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
26 december 2021 · 32 min
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 sand and heat of North Africa's deserts.
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12 Days of Christmas - Bomber
25 december 2021 · 29 min
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, 1943"
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Brothers In Arms - Live from the National Army Museum
23 december 2021 · 34 min
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 episode, join the IC on Patreon for more exclusive live content every Monday
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Grace Taylor
21 december 2021 · 44 min
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 conscription for women was decreed, out of both a love of her country and her boyfriend at the time.
If you enjoyed this conversation, you can buy Tessa Dunlop's book 'Army Girls' here;
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Army-Girls-secrets-stories-military/dp/1472282086
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Family Stories Series 2: Episode 5
19 december 2021 · 21 min
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 women facing very different forms of occupation.
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408. The Boys from Reading
16 december 2021 · 44 min
In this special episode of We Have Ways, (recently afflicted) journalist Autumn Hendrickson brings to Al and James a year's worth of research into the war contributions of both the men and women of Reading, Massachusetts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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407. MI19
14 december 2021 · 45 min
Al and James discuss bugging and intelligence during the war. Al also reveals details of a new We Have Ways project.
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406. Family Stories: Series 2, Episode 4
12 december 2021 · 19 min
This week’s family stories include witnessing a cavalry charge in East Africa, fighting in the Fjords, doodlebugs over London and tragedy in the Atlantic.
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405. The Wannsee Conference
11 december 2021 · 1 uur 10 min
“December 1941 is the time the decision was made for the physical extermination of all the Jews in Europe”
Al and James are joined by Waitman Beorn to discuss the Wannsee Conference and how the Nazis began the Holocaust.
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404. The Japanese Empire
10 december 2021 · 51 min
Why did the Japanese get involved in the Second World War? Could they have stayed out of it altogether? Robert Lyman speaks to Al Murray and James Holland.
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403. War Room 1941
9 december 2021 · 51 min
“December 1941, you literally couldn’t pack more events into it if you tried”.
Did FDR know that a deadly attack from Japanese forces was imminent? How did US generals decide on allocating troops in the Atlantic (instead of the Pacific)? Historian Mike Neiberg joins James Holland to explore the intricate complexities of American geopolitics following one of history's most audacious attacks, Pearl Harbour.
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402. Operation Crusader
8 december 2021 · 52 min
Al and James discuss the Western Desert Campaign of 1941, especially looking into the Siege of Tobruk.
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401. Pearl Harbor
7 december 2021 · 48 min
On the 80th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Al and James are joined by the 'Pacific War Trilogy' author Ian Toll to discuss the monumental event.
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400. The Battle of Moscow
6 december 2021 · 49 min
Did Hitler and Stalin have a misapprehension of each other? And was scale the main reason Germany couldn’t invade Moscow? Lees meer
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399. Family Stories: Series 2, Episode 3
5 december 2021 · 24 min
This week’s family stories include an act of outstanding bravery on the high seas, a trans-Atlantic friendship, a plate of dodgy sandwiches and a
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398. The Atlantic War
2 december 2021 · 55 min
The Battle of the Atlantic was the most important theatre of the war, so why don’t we ever talk about it? Military and Naval historian, Marc Milner, joins Al and James to navigate their way through the often snubbed battle.
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397. The Maginot Line
30 november 2021 · 55 min
Al and James debate whether the British produced the best tanks during the war. They also discuss the key characters involved in the development of the Maginot Line and read extracts from the Alanbrooke Diaries. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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396. Family Stories - Series 2, Episode 2
28 november 2021 · 24 min
In today’s Family Stories we hear about a young Englishwoman who found herself in Germany in 1936 and went to hear Hitler speak. Plus stories from South Africa, Australia and the Scottish Isles. Read by Al Murray and James Holland, these extraordinary stories of normal people’s wartime adventures were sent in by you, our listeners.
Email your stories to wehavewayspodcast@gmail.com or leave them on the Family Stories page of our members’ site: patreon.com/wehaveways
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395. Battle of The Ebro
25 november 2021 · 40 min
James Holland and James Petrie walk the hills and caves around the River Ebro, site of the final battle of the Spanish Civil War.
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394. Wacht Am Rhein
23 november 2021 · 53 min
Al Murray and James Holland discuss Dwight Eisenhower's decision not to cross the Rhine at the end of 1944. Al also questions James on his love for Battle Dress.
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393. Family Stories - Series 2, Episode 1
21 november 2021 · 25 min
A new series of Family Stories, the podcast written by you, our listeners. Each week Al Murray and James Holland read out the stories you send us describing the war experiences of your relatives.
Email your stories to wehavewayspodcast@gmail.com or leave them on the Family Stories page of our members’ site: patreon.com/wehaveways
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392. The Eastern Front
18 november 2021 · 1 uur 2 min
What common mistakes do people make about the Nazis and the Red Army? Alex Richie, Katja Hoyer and Waitman Wade Beorn talk about the atrocities that happened on the Eastern Front during the Second World War
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391. Typhoons and Republicans
16 november 2021 · 53 min
James Holland joins us from Spain where he is exploring the battle sites of the Spanish Civil War. Meanwhile Al Murray has his mind changed about the Typhoon.
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390. We Will Remember Them
11 november 2021 · 26 min
Each year on November 11th we pause to remember those who have died in the line of duty. In this Remembrance Day special, Al Murray and James Holland remember the family and friends of our listeners.
We Have Ways’ members club, the Independent Company, now has 15 regional hubs in which members meet to discuss the history of the Second World War, frequently with a pint of beer in their hand. If you’d like to join like-minded people for lots of war-jaw join us at patreon.com/wehaveways and tell us which hub you’d like to join.
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389. Class Action
9 november 2021 · 49 min
The British Army relied heavily on public school boys for its officer class at the start of the war but was forced to abandon its class prejudice as the conflict took its toll. Al Murray and James Holland explore the way in which the war forced a more egalitarian approach to army recruitment.
We Have Ways’ members club, the Independent Company, now has 15 regional hubs in which members meet to discuss the history of the Second World War, frequently with a pint of beer in their hand. If you’d like to join like-minded people for lots of war-jaw join us at patreon.com/wehaveways and tell us which hub you’d like to join.
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388. Niklas Frank: In the Shadow of the Reich
4 november 2021 · 1 uur 2 min
Hans Frank ran Poland for the Nazis during the Second World War and was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity at Nuremberg.
His son Niklas was seven years old when Frank was hanged. In this extraordinarily candid conversation Niklas Frank talks to James Holland about living with his father’s legacy.
Hold the date: WarFest 2022 will take place near Silverstone from July 22 to July 24.
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387. Home Guard
2 november 2021 · 53 min
What was the real reason for the creation of the Home Guard and is the Dad’s Army image fair? James Holland and Al Murray look beyond Captain Mainwaring and Private Pike to examine the Home Guard. Plus the lads break down the British Army in numbers.
Hold the date: WarFest 2022 will take place near Silverstone from July 22 to July 24.
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386. What do the Germans think?
28 oktober 2021 · 40 min
For many British people the Second World War is the nation’s modern founding story. But in Germany it remains difficult to talk about and very rarely features in popular culture. German historian Katja Hoyer joins Al Murray to record a live version of the pod at the British Museum.
Hold the date: WarFest 2022 will take place over the weekend July 22 - 24. Tickets announced soon.
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Exec Producer Jon Gill
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385. Black Allied Forces
26 oktober 2021 · 58 min
Black soldiers, airmen and sailors contributed hugely to the Allied war effort. Al Murray and James Holland are joined by John Concagh, who has extensively researched the subject, to explore the role of African, Caribbean and black British forces in the Second World War.
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Produced by Harry Lineker
Exec Producer Tony Pastor
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@WeHaveWaysPod
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384. Walking the Ground
21 oktober 2021 · 46 min
James Holland is a keen advocate of walking the ground to gain a deeper understanding of the events of the Second World War. In this special podcast James walks us around some of the key sites in Valletta, Mdina and the old Ta’Qali airbase as he explores the locations which informed much of his writing in Fortress Malta.
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Produced by Rotimi Kolapo
Exec Producer Tony Pastor
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