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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

32. The Battle for Arnhem Bridge

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

History, Education, Society & Culture

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Al Murray and James Holland walk across the famous John Frost bridge at Arnhem while describing the intense fighting which took place there 75 years ago. The boys explore the locations of the buildings held by John Frost and his men before climbing up onto the bridge itself. #WeHaveWays A Goalhanger Films Production. Recorded and edited in Arnhem. 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

Hello and welcome to day four of We Have Ways in Arnhem podcast special of

0:11.4

extra material to mark the 75th anniversary of the battle and I've been in

0:14.1

Arnhem a by the way we're I'll explain we are in a moment because you can

0:17.4

hear traffic whizzing past I've been here in Arnhem for 24 hours and the

0:20.8

relief has arrived. J.J. Holland is here and I'm on time you know I haven't

0:24.0

been delayed by weather I'm not turning up at three o'clock in the afternoon I'm

0:26.7

here well I need a little bit like brilliant half-os-11 you've been here before

0:30.4

no I just I can't tell you how pumped I have to be here brilliant and I've

0:34.1

never seen the bridge and I've never seen the drop zones or the landing zones

0:37.1

before we sort of drove through them all getting a little bit excited as we

0:39.8

hurtled through and I just can't get over the scale of it it's flipping enormous

0:44.2

it's an enormous bridge and the causeway that runs down into the town is huge

0:48.5

and how different I mean obviously not quite as time act back in

0:52.7

90 would have all was it probably was I think I think I actually think you're you

0:57.0

know there's no there's basically no difference there's the

0:59.6

difference is the buildings which obviously which obviously we're all destroyed

1:03.4

church it's very iconic church yeah yeah yeah that's the west that's right

1:09.9

yeah well where we stood sweet listener is on the bridge and there's a very

1:14.0

famous photograph taken by the Germans of just after the action at the bridge

1:17.1

when they when they'd win called the guys from first ever now here with it with

1:21.6

the wreckage of vehicles and we are stood where that picture was taken yes yes

1:25.7

I've got it the picture yeah and there's the building there which I think is a

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