126. Don’t Start at the Bottom

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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Society & Culture, History, Education

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Did the Allies take too long winkling the Germans out of Sicily? Expect strong views from James Holland and Al Murray. Plus an extraordinary story of the captured Enigma machine from a listener who’s relative was on HMS Bulldog.

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0:00.0	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:08.0	Silou, silou, which is of course Welsh for Achtung, Achtung.
0:12.5	Please, I beg and plead forgiveness from Welsh speakers for my ignorance.
0:16.9	The translation comes from listener Andy Pritchard.
0:19.7	Thanks Andy, he got in touch with us this week with a brilliant account of his great
0:22.7	uncle's experiences on HMS Bulldog.
0:24.6	More of that a little later.
0:26.0	But welcome on and all to We Have Ways of making you talk.
0:30.5	I hope you enjoyed my reading of The Cauldron.
0:32.4	The last chapter was released on Easter Sunday.
0:34.1	You can catch up anytime wherever you get your podcast.
0:37.0	They got out of Easter peak.
0:38.3	We're still in lockdown.
0:41.8	There's no escape.
0:42.8	There isn't even a rhyme to swim in desperate moments.
0:46.9	I'm Son Agle 4 in Wiltshire.
0:48.9	Oh gosh.
0:51.2	I'm now deep into my next reading, Dennis Parham's One Man's Window,
0:53.9	which is about a Dennis' time as a Spitfire pilot in Malta.
0:57.1	And it is absolutely sensational.
1:00.4	And the thing is, when we talked about putting this book together, James Kett going,
1:03.7	you're going to love it.
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