49. Remembrance Day

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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Society & Culture, History, Education

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Al Murray and James Holland mark Remembrance Day by reading an extract of Keith Douglas’s military memoir Alamein to Zem Zem and his poem Vergissmeinnicht (Forget-me-not).

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0:00.0	The
0:01.0	Red
0:08.3	That Red
0:09.3	Which of course is BASC for actor, not that span into the BASC country,
0:13.8	were allowed to use their language during World War II.
0:16.0	Franco suppressed to use the BASC cattle and Anglician.
0:18.3	But anyway, BASC didn't stop some BASC going into Paris.
0:22.7	No, pleasing away in the course.
0:24.9	And that's James Holland, of course.
0:27.9	I'm Al Murray and we're releasing this episode on November the 11th, which is of course,
0:32.3	remembrance day.
0:33.3	Yeah, and it's always a moving day and it's always a time for just pausing and reflecting
0:37.8	a little bit.
0:38.8	And we were thought thinking it would be nice to do a little podcast today and one person
0:45.4	that I wanted to bring up was Keith Douglas.
0:47.2	Yeah.
0:48.2	There's an awful lot about First World War poets, see if you could see him, Wolfrillow
0:50.9	and etc, etc.
0:52.6	And not much about Second World War poets, but there were some very talented ones that I think
0:57.4	Keith Douglas is very much top of the pile.
0:59.0	Well, he's the one I've always known about.
1:01.4	I remember when, because inevitably I did, Wolfrillow and for O-Levels, that long ago.
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