28. The Capture of Rome

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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History, Education, Society & Culture

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Al Murray and James Holland debate the controversial decision taken by General Mark Clark to liberate Rome. Also up for discussion are the mysterious Foo Fighters and the wartime experiences of comedian Spike Milligan. 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	Paznia, Paznia.
0:03.8	Which of course is Serbian, er, tongue, er, tongue.
0:06.8	Yeah, yeah, you know it.
0:08.3	Well, here we are, episode 23, and still no sign of language fatigue.
0:11.8	We could do corrosion next week, Montenegro in the week after, and Bosnia in the week after
0:15.2	that, and guess what, I'd use the same script, because they're all the same language.
0:18.5	The Balkans, as complicated as Europe, get.
0:21.9	Well, what we could really do with on this podcast, and by the way, we're in my garden
0:26.5	here in West London.
0:27.5	It's a beautiful sunny day at the end of the August heat wave.
0:32.3	There is the council mowing the park lawn behind.
0:34.9	So you may hear the occasional rattle of my council tax being frittered.
0:39.8	The hum of traffic.
0:40.8	The hum of traffic.
0:41.8	Yeah, and on the ground.
0:42.8	Yeah, absolutely.
0:43.8	So this is really happening live.
0:45.8	We're not in some soundproof booth on a boiling hot day.
0:49.0	Anyway, what we need is a proper, serious book writing history, not a waffling comic.
0:54.3	So who's this?
0:55.3	I spy across the kitchen.
0:56.4	Why it's none other than James Holland, author of the best selling Normandy 44 available
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