64. Spike Milligan - Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Merry Christmas from We Have Ways of Making You Talk. Over the next 12 days Al and James are reading extracts from some of their favourite books about the Second World War. Today Al is reading from Mussolini: His Part in My Downfall, by Spike Milligan.

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Exec producer Tony Pastor

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0:00.0	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:10.2	Follehrn, by Naktin. Follehrn, by Naktin.
0:14.0	Which is of course German for Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas.
0:17.6	And it is indeed Christmas Day!
0:20.1	Yay! Happy Christmas, Al!
0:21.7	Happy Christmas, James. I hope you got everything you want.
0:24.0	And more besides.
0:25.6	Oh, well, thank you. And to you.
0:27.9	And it's your turn to be reading today.
0:30.7	Hmm. And what's it going to be?
0:32.6	Well, I think kind of inevitably, if you're a regular listener,
0:35.5	Christmas won't be Christmas without some Spike Milligan.
0:38.3	Yep.
0:39.1	And this is Spike's Christmas Day,
0:42.4	his battery Christmas day in 1943 in Italy.
0:47.8	And it's from Mussolini, his part in my downfall.
0:50.7	And it's what they had for lunch.
0:52.4	And then the show they did.
0:54.2	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:56.5	Our Files, diary.
0:58.8	Sargea made a griffin and Sargea's wakers with tea and rum.
1:01.2	And we're off.
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