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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

35. Al Murray walks the Oosterbeek Perimeter

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

History, Education, Society & Culture

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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On day four of Operation Market Garden, British commanding officer Roy Urquhart gave up trying to relieve John Frost at Arnhem bridge and instead ordered his remaining men to form a defensive perimeter around the village of Oosterbeek. Al Murray explores the small pocket in which three thousand British troops grimly hung on waiting for a relief force that would never arrive. A Goalhanger Films production. 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

So welcome to the latest edition of our We Have Waste Podcasts. This is marking the 75th anniversary of Operation Market Garden.

0:13.8

And Alan and I have just been careering through on Amtown and I have to put my hand up. I let him down a bus route.

0:21.0

I don't know how many traffic violations we have accrued.

0:23.6

We're probably going to not be... Just as well in Holland today. We're never going to be allowed back in.

0:27.5

Well, when we were sort of stopped behind one bus, I looked across at someone waiting to get on another one.

0:32.7

And she just looked at me and just shook her head.

0:34.7

We're going to get red flagged anyway.

0:37.7

Anyway, so where we are.

0:38.7

This is a really nice little leafy suburb.

0:41.7

We've sort of low brick houses, trees line and then cobbled streets.

0:47.3

I mean, it's really...

0:48.3

So a garden suburb style.

0:50.3

And to our right at the end of this road is the St Elizabeth Hospital.

0:53.9

Right, which famously became the hospital during the battle, the dressing station for both sides.

0:59.9

A neutral ground.

1:01.5

Up at the end of the road that we're looking up, which is called...

1:05.1

Let me just... I should know this, but a don't, which is called Moritzstraat.

1:11.1

At the end of the road, you can see there's a train. So there's the railway line out there.

1:14.1

And it's slightly low. It's in a cutting.

1:16.1

So what the Germans did...

1:18.1

Because this road runs west to east into Arnhem. The hospitals in the direction of Arnhem.

1:23.1

What the Germans did is they put machine guns, MG42s, at the top of each of these roads, in the cutting, dug into the cutting.

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