18. VE Day Special: WWII veteran Colin Bell
For The Many
Global
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Iain and Tessa are joined by 104-year-old WWII veteran Colin Bell on Iain's LBC show. Colin answers questions about whether the younger generations care enough about remembrance, whether defence spending ought to go up... and the secrets to his longevity!
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| 0:00.0 | May your lunches always be savored, your sandwiches stacked high, and your toasties always be golden with carry gold butter. |
| 0:08.7 | May your soups be rich and creamy, and your break feel well earned. |
| 0:14.0 | May your corn be dripping with flavour, and your baked potatoes extra buttery. |
| 0:19.4 | May your lunch always hit the spot, and your moments always |
| 0:23.5 | be golden. |
| 0:25.0 | Kerry Gold, naturally golden butter from grass-fed cows. |
| 0:30.0 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. Hello and welcome to this slightly different episode of where politics meets history. |
| 0:46.4 | A few days ago on my LBC show, Tessa invited her friend to join us, |
| 0:50.7 | a 104-year-old RAF bomber command ace, Colin Bell, DFC. |
| 0:55.7 | I wanted to play our conversation in full. |
| 0:58.7 | Now, we talked about whether |
| 0:59.8 | younger generations today remember |
| 1:01.8 | the war well enough, whether |
| 1:03.9 | Dresden was defensible, and |
| 1:05.8 | how he absailed down |
| 1:07.6 | 17 stories two |
| 1:09.8 | years ago. Here we go. Now, many of you will have been watching or |
| 1:16.1 | listening to a lot of the commemorations that took place yesterday to commemorate VE Day, which isn't |
| 1:20.9 | actually until Thursday, lots more events planned for Thursday all over the country. And I think |
| 1:27.1 | anybody watching the events, not just at Buckingham Palace, but the parade, |
| 1:32.2 | the interviews with lots of veterans, I don't think anyone can fail to have been moved |
| 1:36.6 | by the event. |
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