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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

134. Legacy and Myth

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.84.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In part two of their conversation with historian Guy Walters, Al Murray and James Holland explore how the Second world War is viewed in Britain as the nation’s defining myth. Nationalism and political identity are also key themes of their discussion.


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0:00.0

Music

0:11.0

Acton acton welcome it's we have ways of making you talk Thursday special edition and we're delighted to be joined again by

0:18.8

Guy of Waters but we're not going to talk about Nazis this time or are we?

0:23.2

Oh I'm sure

0:25.2

They might slip in they might slip in they might pop in pop up

0:29.3

Um, uh guy, what are you doing with your lockdown extra time at home staring at four walls? I mean, you know, I'm doing things like this

0:38.6

No, no, I'm I'm I'm actually planning a couple more books at the moment

0:42.5

So at the time of speaking it's too early to say where they're in the bag

0:46.0

But that's partly thanks to the excellent Holland J that those might come about so I'm very grateful to him

0:52.8

And I'm also teaching my son to drive so that is it

0:58.3

Oh, it's like it's like being a frontline soldier every day you go to bed alive is a good day

1:03.2

You know, it's

1:05.2

My dad there's a

1:08.2

Village where my parents live there's an old there's an old airfield at the end of the road basically

1:13.6

There was a there was a Wellington training station, I think and

1:18.3

And he took me up on the east have this old land Rover, you know proper old land Rover double-declutch

1:23.7

Yeah, he took me up on the airfield and just said all right, then off you go

1:29.1

He just assumed I knew you had to put the clutch in and then take it out and all that sort of thing

1:34.5

We can't grew

1:35.7

Can grew started around this you know great big stretch of runway

1:40.4

To fun wrong way and then he drove me home and that's the only driving lesson he ever gave me

1:44.2

Then my poor my poor mother had to take over I did loads of my son. I quite enjoyed it actually

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