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Acton, acton.

Hello, welcome to We Have Ways of Making You Talk with me, Al Murray and James Holland.

Today, given that it's Remembrance Sunday, we thought we would talk about Remembrance.

Because after all, on this podcast, we talk about the operational level, the tactical level,

the logic that tales are daring do, the gear, the things that we, the new ways of looking at it,

old ways of looking at it, all the myriad of things that the Second World War offers.

But at the heart of the subject is after all death, loss and consequently remembrance.

It was joined us today.

We've got Glen Prusser here who is a historian.

He's written a brilliant book called Citizen Sailors about the Royal Navy in the Second World War

and he was also the former historian of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

And I thought it'd be interesting to call upon Glen to give us a bit of background about Fabian Ware

and the start of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and how it all began and why it is, why it is,

and why is it that when you travel overseas and you suddenly find this little corner of England

and it all looks exactly the same.

Because it's such a sort of, you know, in our remembrance, I think those cemeteries, those carved headstones,

it's such a part of the kind of, our culture, isn't it, and our cultural of remembrance.

Well, Glen, welcome.

I noticed over your shoulder on your bookshelf, there's a book that's 1916 down its spine.

And that's really where this all begins, isn't it, is that you have all of a sudden

the nature of conflict has changed for Britain.

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