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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

201. Resistance

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Al Murray and James Holland discuss Patrick Marnham’s book on the French Resistance. Plus, how influential was signals intelligence? Other subjects up for discussion include the Chindits’ actions behind enemy lines and the war-time relationship between Britain and the US. We Have Ways has a membership club which includes a live version of the podcast streamed on the internet each Thursday evening. There are also five free audiobooks on the site. Join at Patreon.com/wehaveways A Goalhanger Films production Produced by Harry Lineker Exec Producer Tony Pastor Twitter: #WeHaveWays @WeHaveWaysPod Website: www.wehavewayspod.com Email: wehavewayspodcast@gmail.com 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

Akiyessi Akiyessi, which is of course your rubah for Achtung Achtung.

0:15.8

Of course it is.

0:17.3

Of course it is.

0:18.3

They can be found throughout Western Africa, including Nigeria.

0:20.9

And as we all know, many Nigerian soldiers fought in Burma and India, but came home to little

0:24.9

fanfare, or thanks for the British colonialists.

0:27.3

This in part sparked the general strike of 1945, and led to turning Christ's eye for self-determination.

0:32.9

So you know, sometimes the British army, miss handling its soldiers, had a greater good

0:39.1

in the long run for those people.

0:41.5

Yes, that's one way of looking at it isn't it?

0:44.5

Well no, because it's interesting, because we're, but hello everyone, welcome to We Have

0:48.1

Ways of Making You Talk.

0:50.6

You know what, we're recording this the Friday, so last night was our life cast.

0:56.4

So James and I were only speaking to each other 12 hours ago.

0:59.9

So although we haven't seen each other, you know, in Manau, in Manau for a little while,

1:04.0

it feels, we still feel very close and tight.

1:06.2

Yes, we do.

1:07.2

This feels kind of old school as well, that we're doing a, just, we're just doing a, um,

1:11.3

a, how we do this everyone is we do a Zoom chat.

1:14.7

James is wherever he is, I tend to be in my office, and we're, we're, we're just going

1:19.1

to chew the cup and talk some questions.

1:20.7

But we do have a, we do look at each other.

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