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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

20. Colditz and our Book List

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Society & Culture, Education, History

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

James Holland and Al Murray debate the wisdom of collecting all the Allies’ most escape-minded prisoners of war in one place. Also up for discussion are bombing tactics, the Battle of the Atlantic and Monty’s autograph book. Plus Al and James’s recommended reading for the summer. 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

Okay. Yeah. What are we recording? Just dialysis. By the way, sound quality fire? Yeah.

0:06.5

You happy? It's just content as a problem.

0:18.0

In Dippah, in Dippah, we're running low in languages you can pretty tell. That was my attempt

0:24.3

to say in Arabic, achtung achtung. That's the sound that rang out across North Africa when

0:31.0

Rommel and Eighth are me chased each other back because of forces and it changed. Yeah, absolutely.

0:34.9

And what are we going to do when we run out completely? We're going to go back to actor and

0:37.8

start like that. I think we're going to have to. Yeah. Yeah. Right. So for those of you new to our

0:40.7

podcast and welcome all new fellow travelers and wondering what on earth you've stumbled into.

0:46.0

This is we have ways to make you talk. The second world war podcast that will not help any GCSU

0:51.1

student looking to develop a linear go here and argument last night my daughter said a good

0:55.5

noor to tomorrow. She was obviously really proud about that. Yeah, it's not about GCSU.

1:03.0

I'm Al Murray and I'm James Holland trying to bring the smallest semblance of good sense to

1:09.0

proceedings. Good luck with that with the wobbly lower lip now. We get a lot of correspondence

1:14.1

I'm pleased to say. Not all of it corrected me on my knowledge of the war in the east.

1:17.7

Lately we've had a couple of requests from listeners with one eye on this summer holidays.

1:21.6

Vincent wrote to say thoroughly enjoying the podcast. Very interesting and entertaining.

1:27.4

We like you too Vince. Do you have or could you recommend a good World War II reading list?

1:32.0

And Dean Richardson is also right to say other than James's cute book.

1:35.6

I got a book out, Johnny. Yeah, I have it. She's called Normandy 44 and it's

1:39.1

available in all good bookshorts and now and and other bookshorts. Not just the good ones. Yeah,

1:43.3

really bad bookshorts as well. Second World War history books. Would you recommend?

1:47.6

I've read and enjoyed Anthony Beaver's and Max Hastings collections. Well, books.

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