66. George MacDonald Fraser - Quartered Safe Out Here

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2019

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

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 Quartered Safe Here, by George MacDonald Fraser.

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Produced by Joey McCarthy and Harry Lineker

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0:00.0	MUSIC
0:08.0	Merry Corrisso Maso, Merry Corrisso Maso,
0:11.0	which is of course Japanese for Merry Christmas, Merry Christmas.
0:15.0	I've got a set of mother cards saying...
0:17.0	I did!
0:19.0	I can't remember what day of the week it is now.
0:21.0	I think it's 27th of December.
0:23.0	But that's the nature of this time of year, isn't it?
0:25.0	It's the taint, it's the bass of Christmas.
0:28.0	No idea what day of the week it is.
0:30.0	Do you really tipples the night before?
0:32.0	Exactly, poor visions.
0:34.0	Exactly, so anyway, so we're continuing with our book series.
0:37.0	Yes.
0:38.0	And it's your turn today, Al, so what were you got?
0:40.0	Well, one of the... I think...
0:43.0	I mean, your only pile yesterday,
0:45.0	one of the great writers about the Second World War
0:48.0	from the American perspective,
0:49.0	but today is George McDonald Frazier's quartered safe out here,
0:54.0	which is an absolute classic.
0:57.0	And I'm sure...
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