39. Poland's Plight

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 8 October 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Al Murray and James Holland discuss the terrible price paid by Poland in World War Two. Also, why is there a Russian tank on London’s Old Kent Road? Plus the lads discuss the role and reputation of Field Marshall Alan Brooke. 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	Music
0:09.0	Taktor, Taktor, which is of course Kurdish as James Newt for Acton Acton.
0:14.0	The Kurds actually played a small part in World War II with an interaction in Iraq in 1943.
0:19.0	Did you know that?
0:20.0	Yeah, of course you did.
0:21.0	Well, that was one foot of one actually.
0:22.0	Oh, well, probably both.
0:25.0	Yeah.
0:27.0	Anyway.
0:28.0	And for our Kurds, they're always the bottom of the pile anyway.
0:31.0	Well, it was certainly quite a lot going on in 1941 because the Germans were trying to sort of stir it up.
0:37.0	Stir it up, stir it up and the British went in and sort of them out.
0:41.0	Anyway, that just shows of course what a truly global conflict this was.
0:44.0	Now dear listener, we've been taking note of your comments and we've decided to have a small experiment.
0:48.0	From this week, we have ways of making you talk is moving to twice weekly.
0:53.0	So you get your usual show on a Tuesday morning full of wild claims about General Gavin and Russian tank blunders.
0:58.0	Plus, oh my God, General Gavin, that's really got everyone going.
1:02.0	And then you know what, the thing is, I think Rob Pulitzer made a pert, he makes a perfectly good case.
1:09.0	Yeah.
1:10.0	It's all there in the documentary evidence.
1:11.0	It also certainly fits what happened.
1:14.0	I mean, it's the really interesting thing about it.
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