43. Spike Milligan and the Italian Campaign

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Al Murray reads an extract from Spike Milligan’s war time memoir Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall. Al and James then discuss the effects of the war on Milligan’s mental health and James provides historical context to the author’s time in Italy.

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0:00.0	One invention. The pioneers who risked everything and tens of thousands of lives saved.
0:06.2	Eject, eject.
0:07.6	This is the fascinating story of the ejection seat.
0:11.1	Eject, eject by John Nichol, Sunday Times bestselling author of Spitfire, Lancaster and Tornado,
0:17.2	and former desert storm prisoner of war.
0:19.9	Eject, eject is fueled by deeply moving first-hand accounts.
0:24.3	The perfect gift for Father's Day.
0:26.6	Out now in hardback from all good bookshops and unordable.
0:40.4	Attent on, attent on.
0:41.9	Which is, of course, Esperanto for act on act on.
0:44.3	That's right, we're resorting to made up languages now.
0:47.0	Now, there's only a little bit of Esperanto. No one's reading it.
0:49.9	Well, it's only 63,000 people worldwide, James.
0:53.4	Is that so? Yeah, okay.
0:55.2	But I expect most of them, irregular listeners, to we have ways of making you talk.
0:58.8	People interested in the obscure and the irrelevant arguably.
1:02.4	Bonvenon to all of you. I mean, it's a bit pointless, isn't it?
1:05.1	No, very pointless. Well, it's sweet though.
1:07.5	It is sweet, but I mean, a tent on, attent on.
1:10.1	I mean, you know, I mean, you have to be a rocket scientist to work out that means...
1:12.9	That's exactly the point. Well, I know, but, you know, it's just...
1:15.9	Right, by the way, we've just received a letter from the Dutch authorities concerning our driving infringement in Arnhem.
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