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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

323. The Evacuation of Crete

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

History, Education, Society & Culture

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In the second part of our story of the Battle of Crete James and Al discuss the fighting retreat, the brilliant Cretan resistance and the accounts of the writer Evelyn Waugh, a veteran of the battle. We Have Ways Fest will take place September 17 to 19. Tickets are now on general sale:  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/153466810361 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

Achtung, Achtung. Welcome to We Have Ways of Making You Talk A Regular Edition.

0:16.2

Because I'm just before we came here. We were talking about the so much different content

0:22.2

and stuff flying about. We actually can't keep track of it. Luckily there's an office

0:26.4

crowned for the people doing exactly that isn't it Jim? Yeah, but as a result of that we haven't

0:31.3

got, you know, we haven't got Tony to give us some, some kind of sort of weird language.

0:35.2

So we just got traditional, haven't we? We just got an actor. No way you stand, Achtung, Achtung.

0:40.4

Absolutely. I'm quite happy with Achtung, Achtung.

0:45.5

That's James Holland, of course. I didn't introduce him. I know James, how are you?

0:49.1

Yeah, well, do you know what? Actually, actually, if I'm brutally honest, I'm a little bit flustered

0:53.4

this morning. I've spent too long. So what happens is when you, when you, you know,

0:58.7

you know this out, but you, you write your book, you finish it and you write the end.

1:03.8

And that is absolutely not the end. So what then happens is it then goes off to a copy editor

1:11.5

and a copy of the goes through and makes all, you know, irons out, little typos and all that

1:16.6

kind of stuff. But also has points out any inconsistencies, you know, he was called Robert

1:20.9

on page 21. Now he's called Richard, which one is it? All that kind of stuff. You know,

1:24.8

you've forgotten to give me a source for this quote. What is it? Etc. Etc. But in this one,

1:30.3

because there's so many personal, you know, people have lent me letters of their

1:36.2

fathers and all this sort of stuff, you know, all the relevant families and people like Stan Perry,

1:41.5

who was, who's still alive. You know, they've got to see it because you can't just, just put out.

1:46.4

And actually, we got sent a really, really interesting letter. Didn't we? Yesterday.

1:50.6

Yes. Between Lord Lovett, Shimme, and John Howard of Pegasus Bridge fame.

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