30. The Hartenstein Hotel

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 18 September 2019

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In the first of our special episodes to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Arnhem, Al Murray is at the Hartenstein Hotel. He is joined by battlefield tour expert Paul Reed to discuss the history of what became 1st Airborne Division’s Headquarters and relive what the fighting was like on the streets of Oosterbeek. 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	Well, hello, welcome to one of our market garden feature podcasts.
0:09.2	We have ways of making you talk and I'm speaking to you now from just outside the heart and
0:15.1	stone hotel in Usterbick, which those of you know about the battle and those you don't
0:20.1	was the headquarters for first airborne division in the Battle of Arnaum.
0:24.6	We ended up the headquarters.
0:25.9	They put their headquarters there for a bit and they were planning to move it but of course
0:30.4	then they got stuck and they couldn't.
0:32.4	I've been here several times before.
0:34.5	I've just in fact, all we did a moment ago and it's on my two-defeated.
0:37.4	I posed for a photo in the place where Roy O. Urkett famously posed for his photo outside
0:42.6	his headquarters with the Pegasus pen and stood next to him.
0:46.6	He's Batman then smuggled out when they swam across the river.
0:49.8	I came back across the river.
0:51.4	Anyway, I've been here several times before.
0:53.9	Once when I was a kid with my dad in the mid-80s when I did an O-level history project
0:59.6	about the Battle of Arnaum.
1:00.6	So this thing's been with me a long time.
1:03.0	Then I came here in 2004 when I made a TV program here and then I came back the next year
1:07.4	because I wanted to actually be here rather than be filming a thing here where you don't
1:10.7	get to actually take time and look at the things you want to look at.
1:15.4	And then we're back now.
1:17.0	The big change is there's a visitor center here at the Harnstein.
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