381. Battleground: Special Forces — The Listener Mailbag
Battleground
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4.5 • 820 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, we've got Simon on the line. Simon, young people, they're just all a bit, a bit lazy, aren't they? |
| 0:09.0 | What are you for? |
| 0:10.0 | Welcome to McDonald's. |
| 0:11.0 | Have you get the six minutes, please? |
| 0:12.0 | Some say young people are work shy, but at McDonald's, we hired 47,000 of them last year. |
| 0:19.0 | How's your night? |
| 0:20.0 | Like George here, who keeps things running during a Friday rush. |
| 0:25.1 | Resilience, making it happen at McDonald's. |
| 0:30.3 | The weight is over. |
| 0:31.9 | Last One Laughing is back, and it's even more brutal than last time. |
| 0:36.1 | Share your biggest regrets. |
| 0:37.6 | I don't regret this hair coat. What did you ask for, the shaggy, slim shady? Joining us this series, we have. Romish Wrenkenathan, Diane Morgan, David Mitchell, Mel Gedroich, Amy Gledhill, Alan Carr, Bemi Sola, Icku Mello, Sam Campbell, Maisie Adam, and Bob Mortimer. Anyone want a song? No. |
| 0:57.3 | Last One Laughing, new series, watch now. |
| 0:58.9 | Only on Prime Video. Hello and welcome to Battleground Special Forces with me, Saul David and Patrick Bishop. |
| 1:19.1 | Well, Patrick, I'm just back from Ukraine. Great trip with James, Baldy and Julia. |
| 1:25.2 | Sadly, you couldn't make it. |
| 1:26.9 | But we've taken a little bit of a pause in the Special Forces series to answer questions. |
| 1:31.3 | We've had many coming in. |
| 1:33.4 | The first one is from Petter, and this is about a little-known Special Forces operation in Norway. |
| 1:40.4 | As a Norwegian, he writes, the discussion of Special Forces operations during World War II naturally brings the Ryukhan operation to mine. |
| 1:48.7 | That, of course, is the most famous one of all, Patrick. I wrote about the precursor to the Ryokin operation in my Sky Warriors book, Operation Freshman, which was an attempt to knock out the heavy water that the Germans were hoping to use to develop nuclear weapons. |
| 2:03.5 | Now, the job was eventually done, as Petter points out, by the Norwegians themselves, S-O-E, one of the most wonderful operations of the Second World War. |
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