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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

16. I fought at Dunkirk and saw Harold Larwood bowl

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

History, Education, Society & Culture

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In this bonus episode veteran John Hamilton describes shooting down a Stuka before being rescued from the beach at Dunkirk. He also details the extraordinary fitness regime he still maintains despite being 101 years old. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's this? Another bonus episode? It certainly is.

0:03.8

John Hamilton is 101 years old. He fought at Duncook,

0:07.8

shared a dormitory with Rol Dahl, and he still goes to Jim five times a week.

0:12.2

Here he is with James.

0:19.3

I'm at the Chalk Valley History Festival in South West Wilshire.

0:22.0

I'm actually in my home village of Broad Chalk.

0:24.9

Yeah. The sun is shining. It's a beautiful sunny day.

0:28.0

And I'm sitting here with John Hamilton, who is 101 no less,

0:32.9

but looks at least 30 years younger, is fit as a fiddle,

0:36.4

and has the most extraordinary exercise regime,

0:38.6

which we're just about to go through, aren't we John?

0:40.8

John, I've obviously, we've been talking before the recording button pressed go.

0:46.0

And one of the things that I was really impressed with is the fact that you're 101,

0:51.0

you don't look anything like it,

0:53.3

and you have a pretty vigorous exercise regime.

0:58.0

I do.

0:59.6

Every day?

1:00.8

Five days a week.

1:02.2

Two hours.

1:03.0

Yep. And what's your start time?

1:05.2

A start time in 730.

1:06.6

Yep. And what's the routine then?

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