69. Bert Stiles - Serenade To The Big Bird

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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Society & Culture, History, Education

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2019

⏱️ 23 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 James is reading from Serenade to The Big Bird, by Bert Stiles

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0:00.0	Music
0:08.0	Merry Christmas, which is of course Punjabi for Merry Christmas.
0:13.0	Okay. Right. I mean, you know, that was one of the easier ones this week.
0:18.0	Over the next few days and over the last few days, James and I have of course been reading
0:21.0	your favourite Christmas pastures from the best books of World War II.
0:24.0	And we've been to every theatre imaginable and Sicily quite a lot.
0:29.0	What do you want? Well, twice.
0:32.0	Straits of Machinus. Oh, yeah, yeah. All right. Okay. Fair point.
0:35.0	Okay. So, you know, we'll see what's top of my mind on that.
0:37.0	Yeah, of course. What have you got for us today? Well, okay.
0:39.0	So, I'm not going Sicily. Going to Normandy.
0:42.0	All right. Okay. Sure enough.
0:43.0	So, this is Bert Starr, serenade to the big burden.
0:46.0	It's just a wonderful, wonderful memory.
0:48.0	It was written pretty much at the time. It was written in 1944.
0:51.0	It dies in November, 1940. He's one of these very unusual people that starts as a
0:56.0	in a bomber crew and then becomes a fighter pilot. Right.
0:59.0	And weirdly, he gets killed in a Mustang in November, 1944,
1:04.0	which by that stage of war is, you know, quite, it's unusual.
1:09.0	Well, you know, it's probably, it's probably dangerous.
1:11.0	It's probably, you're much more likely to come a cropper in a B17
1:14.0	than a Mustang. Let's put it that way.
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