Band of Brothers with Damian Lewis

Warfare

History Hit

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4.5 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Twenty years after it first aired, Band of Brothers continues to be remembered as a remarkably accurate portrayal of a US parachute infantry company in the European Theater during the Second World War. Damian Lewis is an English actor and producer who played U.S. Army Major Richard Winters in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. At the Chalke Valley History Festival in 2016, he discussed the making of this series, portraying a soldier in the Second World War and meeting the veterans.

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0:00.0	Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.
0:10.0	He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.
0:15.0	Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.
0:19.0	All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.
0:26.0	Piando Ferries, there is another way.
0:29.0	Hello everyone, welcome back to the history hit warfare podcast I'm your host James
0:36.2	Rogers and for this episode I've delved deep into the history archive to pull out an
0:40.8	episode from the fantastic chalkalk Valley History Festival.
0:44.7	Chalk Valley is the largest festival dedicated entirely to history and it's taking place
0:50.3	from the 23rd to the 27th of June this year with a stage sponsored by History Hit.
0:57.0	This episode is from when actor Damien Lewis took to the stage to talk about the making of the hit TV show Band of Brothers. He goes into detail about
1:05.8	what it was like to play the role of Dick Winters, the final years of the war in Europe, and some of those
1:11.6	stories from his own experiences when he met the real life war heroes behind the show.
1:16.7	Band of Brothers is hands down my favorite war TV show that there has ever been.
1:21.7	I would argue it's the most historically
1:24.0	accurate one that there is. So I'm excited to say here is
1:28.4	Damien Lewis on Band of Brothers. Thank you.
1:49.0	Thanks so much for coming to see Damien. He's had a hell of a journey here and he whisked in about 10 minutes ago so let him
1:54.6	calm down for five minutes and he's all right but he's a man who's used to
1:57.2	pressure so I'm sure. On a slightly personal note, Damian and I were at school
2:00.4	together and Damian may not remember the fact we did a drama a level very briefly.
2:05.0	And did you drop out?
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