Band of Brothers

Dan Snow's History Hit

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🗓️ 5 December 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

HBO's Band of Brothers remains one of the greatest mini-series ever made. 20 years after the award-winning series debuted, Dan speaks to Robin Laing who played Edward 'Babe' Heffron about life on set, how they created an entire frozen forest inside an air hanger during a sweltering August and his close relationship with the real Babe Heffron. They're joined by writer John Orloff who tells them about being approached by Tom Hanks and writing two of the most crucial episodes in the series: 'Day of Days' that see's the paratrooper regiment drop into occupied Normandy and 'Why We Fight' about the Lansberg concentration camp. A must-listen for any Band of Brothers fan!

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0:00.0	How many welcome to Dance and O's history at Band of Brothers is 20 years old this
0:05.4	full, this autumn. It was first broadcast on HB on September the night 2001. There we go,
0:11.2	the series won an Emmy and Golden Globe Award in 2001 for Best Mini Series as you'd expect.
0:17.6	It's based on the historian Stephen Ambrose's book of the same name, Band of Brothers,
0:22.1	and it follows the journey of easy company, part of the second battalion of the 536 Boundary
0:27.4	Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne, the screaming Eagles. As they train in the US,
0:32.1	they jump on D-Day. They fight for every major action from then until VE Day. It's obviously
0:38.8	a series that many people listening to this will rank among the best TV they've ever seen.
0:43.3	I'll never forget watching those episodes 20 years ago, particularly from that moment,
0:47.5	where they've turned the spears, run across that farm yard, that terrifying,
0:51.4	shrapnel-infested hellscape to challenge the instructions at some of his men who are having a
0:57.7	momentary lapse. It's packed, packed with extraordinary depictions of the Second World War. It was also packed
1:04.8	with brilliant actors for whom it was a springboard, to brilliant, brilliant careers. In this episode,
1:09.5	the podcast I'm going to talk to one of those actors, Robin Lang, who played Bob Heffron, and I'm
1:14.0	also going to talk to John Olov, a writer on the series, a Second World War fan for whom, as you'll
1:19.6	hear, this was his dream assignment. So it's going to be a good one, folks. It's a special episode,
1:24.9	this one you're going to love it. If you want to watch programs about D-Day,
1:28.6	you want to watch programs about World War II in Europe, I've got a place where you can go.
1:32.1	I've got a safe place where you can go and watch those shows in peace, and with the sophisticated
1:37.2	commentary of real historians, not the breathless voiceover that you might find on a mainstream channel.
1:43.3	Just go to HistoryHitTV. HistoryHit.TV is the web address. It works in America. It works in Canada.
1:48.9	It works in Micronesia. Wherever you're watching a TV online,
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