204. From El Alamein to the Heroes of Telemark

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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How great a contribution did Monty make in North Africa? And were the actions of the Heroes of Telemark vital to the effort to deny Hitler the atomic bomb? Al Murray and James Holland meander wildly in this entirely non linear approach the the Second World War. 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	I'm Tiba, I'm Tiba, which is of course Arabic for Ahtung, Ahtung.
0:13.3	I don't know, I know we've had Arabic on before, but you try coming up on new languages
0:17.7	when you're into your third century of podcasts.
0:19.8	And anyway, if you're downloading, I know we're well past the double ton.
0:26.5	Anyway, if you are downloading this on the day of publication, it's November 10th.
0:30.0	But what happened on November 10th, Uncle Al?
0:32.4	I hear you cry.
0:33.5	Well, Winston Churchill attended the Lord Mayor's lunch in London and uttered these words.
0:38.7	Now it's not the end of the...
0:40.5	It is not even the beginning of the end.
0:42.2	It is perhaps the end of the beginning.
0:44.4	And why did he say this?
0:45.6	Because we were on the cusp of winning the Battle of El Alamayne.
0:48.5	Oh, he's won it.
0:49.1	Shattering.
0:49.6	Why did it buy that?
0:50.4	We'd won it by the way.
0:51.5	We'd won it.
0:52.5	You could bring it on it.
0:53.5	It's a bit sourced to Operation Torch, isn't it?
0:54.8	Tent for...
0:55.5	Well, yes, it depends, though, when you regard winning Alamayne as, you know,
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