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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

281. Nightmare at Nijmegen

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Why did General Jim Gavin, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, not prioritise the capture of the bridge at Nijmegen as part of Operation Market Garden? James Holland and Al Murray examine the after event report to work out who decided the capture of the Groesbeek Heights was the priority. Join the We Have Ways membership club to watch a live version of the podcast streamed on the internet each Thursday evening. Join at Patreon.com/wehaveways A Goalhanger Films production Produced by Joey McCarthy 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

A tentier, a tentier, which is of course Dutch for Actung Actung. I'm not going to attempt

0:15.4

a Dutch accent having nearly caused a diplomatic incident on Thursday in the live stream.

0:20.2

For the regular listener who's not a patron, that probably sounds like double Dutch,

0:26.6

but I just said then, on Thursday night we do a live stream, a live cast where you can see

0:30.7

C. James and I in the flesh live, discuss matters of historical importance, as well as

0:35.5

engage in basic slapstick of the highest quality, quite a lot of slapstick. And we had a

0:40.5

Dutch question for Dutch listener, so I did a hilarious Dutch accent and then it turned

0:45.8

out he was watching exactly the full man H, he had one chipshin man H, and she actually

0:52.3

girls and he was watching, which was embarrassing. Anyway, hello, welcome to we have, what's

1:00.9

added high and that you're collapsing portrait gag that you're open with and using a brick

1:06.5

from the bag off to top of the top of the most James Holland thing I've seen in my

1:10.3

life. Don't worry, I have a brick from the bag off to hold it in place. Incredible.

1:16.1

Well, very well though, didn't it? Was no more falling of the of the rent.

1:23.1

Right. Anyway, and by the way, if you go to the Patreon, you can watch this live stream,

1:28.5

it's up there for all to see. Anyway, welcome to We Have Ways and Make You Talk with me,

1:32.7

Almari and James Holland. A big hello to Simon who stopped me in the park yesterday

1:36.8

in West London and said, I love listening to this, I've listened to all of them, it's

1:40.4

my morning commute, that Jonathan Ware, he was lively, wasn't he?

1:44.2

Yeah, I listened to a little, a back to a little bit of that and God, he was, he was

1:51.0

like, he just couldn't get it out quick enough, wasn't it? I mean, yeah, yeah, I will have,

1:56.0

we'll probably have to have him back on so he can squeeze the rest of it out. Anyway,

2:05.1

many would of you. I mean, what I love, what I love is the, the, the, the, the, the

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