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

It's a Thursday edition and well, where to start.

Well, at the weekend we did our special edition to do with Remembrance Sunday, to Mark Remembrance Sunday.

And we've had an extraordinary outpouring of, well, a response from lots of you, listeners from regular listeners and from people all over the world.

And lovely, isn't it?

It has been really, really nice.

It has been really touching and my mum got in touch to say thank you for what you said about Granny and all that sort of thing.

Anyway, it's been a lovely response.

And I think what was really good about Sunday and what's been good about the response to this is, you know, we do get caught up in some of the adventure and the thrill of the gigantic historical spectacle of the Second World War.

But to actually give it some thought towards Remembrance, I think is really important.

And also that we've here, I would be steer clear of the so-called Poppy debate. I think is to our credit, James.

Anyway, we have an email. We received an email that's quite extraordinary. So I'd like to start with that.

It's from John Witter. Now, John says, hi there. I'm emailing you partly because I'm technologically old fashioned and also want to hear Al have yet another go at an email user.

I am a relatively recent but very keen listener to your podcast and have been enjoying it immensely. Well, thank you.

I live on an island in the middle of the South Pacific called Rarotonga in the Cook Islands.

We are between American Samoa and Tahiti. Right. How about that? How about that? I mean, that this podcast getting all the way around the world like that.

Yesterday, I listened to your chat with Glen Press, a formerly of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

Our family owes much to the CWGC. At the outbreak of World War I, the Cook Islands, only recently annexed by New Zealand, saw 500 men in a list to go to war.

This was from a very small population and as a percentage of that population, this enlistment was apparently amongst one of the highest in the world.

To give you some perspective, our population is now only about 14,000.

Amongst those men was my grandfather and one of his younger brothers who we believe like many lied about his age.

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