320. The Battle for Crete

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

History, Education, Society & Culture

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The assault on Crete led to a pyrrhic German victory and much finger pointing on the part of the Allies. Was Major-General Bernard Freyberg to blame or did a failure of communication lead to the defeat of British, New Zealand and Australian forces? Eighty years on from the dramatic fight for the island, Al Murray and James Holland explore the mistakes made and the price paid by both sides. We Have Ways Fest will take place September 17th to 19th this year. Get tickets via our members’ site: Patreon.com/wehaveways A Goalhanger Films production Produced by Harry Lineker 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	Music
0:11.0	Kura Ra! Kura Ra!
0:13.0	Which is of course, monks for acton, acton.
0:16.0	Yes, monks. I did it. I did a gig the other night where I was here and I was beamed into a party on the island of Man.
0:23.0	Really? Yeah, what was it like?
0:25.0	Yeah, it was it like. And they had a camera, literally going around the room, going up to people and I go, look at the state of you.
0:31.0	From the big screen, like some sort of hectoring big brother.
0:35.0	Yeah, it's amazing.
0:37.0	I have, I've been several times. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:39.0	This must be very Douglas, isn't it?
0:41.0	It's a beautiful place. I mean, you get the feeling of how small it is.
0:46.0	And when we were talking to David Badil about how they built Vienna on the island of Man, you know, the Jews that were sent there.
0:54.0	I could totally picture it from having been really, really times.
0:59.0	Yeah, it's a really good place to go and play.
1:03.0	Because it's got that real like staff or entertainment around here, vibe.
1:08.0	Right, right, right.
1:09.0	You can go on and basically do any old shit.
1:12.0	Yeah, yeah.
1:13.0	It's a great, really interesting place to visit.
1:16.0	And you do very much feel it's its own place.
1:20.0	Well, you know, he retired there was George McDonald Fraser.
1:25.0	Yeah, yeah.
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