Between the Lines - Ep 1

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Welcome along to a new We Have Ways series - Between the Lines.

This production decodes handwriting, unfolds faded pages, and dips into the details of diaries, log books and letters written this same week in 1943.

Written in the moment, these amazing stories give us a truly personal view of a world at war. We’ll meet a cast of characters throughout the series. From a mother and son desperately trying to keep in touch to a young German fighter ace. We’ll also get to know the aide to General Omar Bradley and the captain of HMS Warspite.

New episodes will be released every Thursday.

Between The Lines is a We Have Ways production

Julia ‘Ma’ Blyth is read by Ruth Sillers

David Blyth is read by Matthew Malthouse

Oscar Griswold is read by Michael Lyons

Chester Hansen is read by Lance Fuller

Vere Hodgson is read by Rachel Holland

Heinz Knoke is read by Lukas Wechsler

Bertie Packer is read by Paul Waggott

Jack Ward is read by Adam Jarrell

Harry Wilson is read by Joel Emery

Narration is by James Holland and Al Murray

Editing by Jon Gill and Joey McCarthy

Written and produced by Merryn Walters

The executive producer is Tony Pastor

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Between the Lines, the podcast that unfolds faded pages, deciphered
0:17.6	the handwriting and dips into the details of diaries, logbooks and letters written this
0:22.9	same week in 1943, some 80 years ago.
0:28.0	Yes, by April this year, the Second World War had become a way of life, a cacophony of
0:32.8	military strategies and a confusion of political intent.
0:36.8	To understand what happened, why it happened and how each part of this conflict was fought,
0:42.4	it makes sense to look at the official records, the war diaries, divisional histories or
0:46.5	topographies and the like.
0:48.2	For the most part, these hold all the facts we need.
0:51.5	They certainly have the all-important figures that define military logistics.
0:56.4	However, those are the mechanics of war, writ large with words finessed on purpose to
1:01.2	describe clinical events.
1:03.2	Intentionally, they remove feelings and emotion.
1:06.4	The reality of war, as we're about to find out, is described as well if not better by
1:11.5	men and women who noted what was happening around them and how they felt at the time.
1:16.9	Fortunately, many people did put pen to paper in their own diaries in personal memoirs
1:22.0	and journals and in letters to their loved ones.
1:25.3	It's their words we're reading now, more or less in the week in which they were written.
1:30.3	Every theatre, every fighting force on both sides of the line and we'll be hearing from
1:35.4	the home front too.
1:37.8	These were both ordinary and extraordinary people.
1:41.4	Their handwriting may be hard to read and war sometimes gets in the way of regular correspondence
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