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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

356. Highballs and Bazookas

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

History, Education, Society & Culture

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Al and James discuss why Britain never used the Highball bouncing bomb, the impact of losing battleships, the PIAT versus the Bazooka and the perils of reading your own books. Tickets for the We Have Ways Festival can be bought here: 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

Niam Niam Niam Niam Niam think.

0:13.6

Which is of course Russian for Achtung Achtung.

0:16.0

I thought you did that really well.

0:18.0

Well I thought the thing to do was rush through it in a kind of mumbleed way and that would,

0:22.0

that would, you know, seal the deal on that one.

0:25.0

80 years ago this very day Churchill wrote to Stalin saying no comrade

0:29.0

we won't be opening a new front of the West anytime soon.

0:32.0

He wrote this to a chimps landing in force for a picture of counter-bladding with pulse.

0:37.0

And Pennyweeds would only need to be asked to do far more hard and good to both of us.

0:42.0

You must remember that we have been fighting alone for more than a year

0:45.0

and that's the way our resources are growing and grow fast from now on.

0:50.0

We are at the utmost strain, both at home and in the Middle East by bland and air

0:54.0

and also at the battle of the Atlantic on which our life depends.

0:59.0

And also, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

1:04.0

Can we finish off?

1:05.0

No, no, I'm alright.

1:06.0

And the movement of all our comrades in the teeth of the U-Bout and fuckable blockade

1:11.0

sprained on ever-winsorted.

1:13.0

Great though they may be to the utmostly-beak.

1:15.0

Well, so basically, I mean, the thing is he's good at that pithy memo where

1:21.0

he's not over-promising, is it?

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