200. Battleground '44 - Black Tuesday at Arnhem

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4.6 • 703 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Joining Saul on this episode of Battleground '44 is Al Murray, co-host of our sister podcast - We Have Ways of Making You Talk, and author of Arnhem: Black Tuesday: The Classic Battle as Never Told Before. Together they look at the the events on Tuesday September 19, 1944 - a terrible day for British forces at Arnhem, and ask discuss why it all went so wrong and what could've been done differently. If you have any thoughts or questions, you can send them to - [email protected] Producer: James Hodgson X (Twitter): @PodBattleground Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:47.0	Today I'm joined by comedian and historian Al Murray, who with James Holland, co-hosts our hugely popular sister podcast.
0:55.6	We Have Ways, which of course discusses all things World War II. Now, today we're going to talk about Al's new book, Arnhem Black
1:01.2	Tuesday. We're hearing that numbers are shifting quite rapidly already, Al. I know you don't like
1:06.4	to, you know, assume anything in advance, but it is looking quite good, isn't it? Yes, it seems to be.
1:11.2	It seems to be moving.
1:12.2	I mean,
1:12.5	I'm always wary of getting too gripped by the numbers.
1:15.4	Because as a comedian I used to know,
1:17.4	back in the day,
1:18.3	right?
1:18.5	He was completely obsessed with how he was selling,
1:21.4	Edinburgh in particular.
1:22.9	And so one year,
1:23.7	he played 120 seat and he sold it out for the entire three and a half weeks. So the
1:28.1	next year he booked a 300 seater and he sold 120 tickets every day for the entire three and a half
1:35.2	weeks. So you know, you've got to be, you've got to be wary of where your ceiling might be and
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