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Aston Aston, welcome to We Have Ways of Making You Talk with me, Al Murray and with James Holland

and we are joined today by a very special guest who's in France but not French.

That's all the clues you're going to get out of me, James, who we're talking to today.

Well, we've got an old mate of mine, actually, we've got Paul Woodage, who I always call Woodie

and so does most people to be fair. Woodie is a as a battlefield tour guide over in

normally based in by year. He's an absolute mine of information. He also runs his own

own channel called World War II TV and he's been doing a series of incredible

live events throughout lockdown and they've just been fantastic. We just, you know,

I have nothing on Burma Week but trust me, I was definitely the weakest link on that one.

You've had some incredible guests. You know, you've been helping me out and you took part in

our Normandy 44 series we did and been a kind of a source of information, a mine of contacts

and all sorts of things. So Woodie, it's great to have you on the podcast but I'm, you know,

today I really, I know you have many feathers in your cap these days but I really, really wanted

to hone in on battlefield tourism. I thought I'd be really, really interesting because it's

something we kind of talked about but not really talked about if it's sort of me. I mean,

we sort of alluded to it downwind and I'm always banging on about walking the ground but it would

be great to kind of pick your brains a bit more on that specific subject. So, well, well, welcome,

Paul. Battlefield tourism. I mean, it's an industry, it's coach trips, it's sandwiches, it's

warm squash, it's, you know, I'm just trying to, it's Ponderhawk. It's Ponderhawk. It's, I remember once

being filming at the Borgibu Ridge a very long time ago and a coach load arrived and a chap in

Red Cauderoy and a sports jacket got out and said they say, of course, that in the second world

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