247. Family Stories: Annabel Venning

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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Society & Culture, History, Education

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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From today We Have Ways is bringing you a bonus weekend episode called Family Stories. We’re launching the series with Annabel Venning, who joins Al and James to explain how she researched her own family’s experience from the Blitz to Burma resulting in her book ‘To War With The Walkers’. Each Sunday Al and James will read the wartime family stories from you, our listeners. If you would like your family story to be considered please send us no more than 500 words, either by email to wehavewayspodcast@gmail.com or on the Patreon site under the Family Stories tab. If you email us, please make the subject ‘Family Stories’. To War With The Walkers: https://www.waterstones.com/book/to-war-with-the-walkers/annabel-venning/9781473679320 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	Music
0:06.0	Achtung Achtung, welcome to We Have Ways and Making You Talk.
0:09.0	We're invading your weekends.
0:12.0	It's the very first Sunday descent upon your weekend time with me, Al Murray and James Holland,
0:19.0	of course, in his beautiful book-lined library, Man Cave, with an SMLE in the background.
0:25.0	James, how are you?
0:26.0	Yeah, I'm good, thank you. How are you?
0:27.0	Great.
0:28.0	Absolutely brilliant.
0:30.0	I've never felt better during this pandemic.
0:34.0	You're looking very healthy and well.
0:36.0	So, James, who are we joined by today?
0:38.0	Well, I've got a...
0:40.0	This is a good one for me because we've got Anabel Vanning and Anabel is a neighbour of mine,
0:45.0	but also one of my greatest mates.
0:47.0	And of course, it's married to that reprobate guy Walters.
0:51.0	The evil hunter himself.
0:58.0	The evil hunter himself, exactly.
1:00.0	But Anabel is a writer in her own right and historian.
1:06.0	And a fabulous book, which I was lucky enough to read in Man's G it form,
1:11.0	and I really, really loved it.
1:12.0	It's very, very interesting.
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