343. One Man’s Window - Chapter 12

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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Society & Culture, Education, History

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🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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In April 1942 Denis Barnham flew his Spitfire off the deck of an aircraft carrier and headed for Malta, where the air battle over the island was at its most intense. This brilliant account of his time on the island offers a compelling and honest account of the terror of the battle and of life on Malta under siege. Read by Al Murray. We Have Ways is running a weekend festival from September 17th to 19th. There will be fifty military vehicles and a host of top speakers. Plus lashings of ale. Tickets can be booked here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/153466810361 A Goalhanger Films production Produced by Harry Lineker & 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	We have ways of making you talk presents One Man's Window, an illustrated account of 10
0:15.8	weeks of war, Malta April 13th to June 21st, 1942 by Dennis Barnum.
0:23.1	Chapter 12, The Royal Malta Artillery.
0:26.3	It is the early evening of Monday, May 11th, and I've just had a complete day off.
0:30.5	I've just bought back through the countryside and through the town.
0:33.5	I've arrived at the palace entrance, and I'm filled with an ecstatic desire to work,
0:37.8	to paint, for the loveliness of things possesses me.
0:41.5	When I woke up this morning, the sheets were all screwed up after a night of restless tossing,
0:45.1	then suddenly I remembered that the CEO had ordered me to take a day off to get my tummy
0:49.1	in order.
0:50.1	I could hardly believe it.
0:52.2	I didn't have to get up, so I lay back among the blankets, quite unable to realise
0:56.2	that I had a whole day to myself.
0:58.5	I lay there for hours.
1:00.4	Just let the day happen.
1:01.8	I'm too tired to paint to study, to plan anything special.
1:05.4	Just let it happen.
1:07.0	At lunchtime I roused myself, and still clad in disheveled grape arjamas, got up and
1:11.5	ate some food.
1:12.6	I washed and shaved carefully, dawned my best khaki uniform, of shorts, poplin shirt and
1:17.4	tunic, deciding as an afterthought to wear a tie for the first time in Malta, then,
1:21.8	with my friendly blue hat to a jaunty angle on my head, I set out.
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