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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Britain's Nazi Invasion: The Concrete Fortress (Part 2)

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.84.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

During the German occupation of the Channel Islands, a series of mammoth concrete defences were built as a part of the Atlantic Wall. Al Murray and James Holland are joined by Steve Powell of 'Festung Guernsey' to tour around Battery Mirus, an enormous gun placement. A Goalhanger Production Produced by Joey McCarthy Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Social: @WeHaveWaysPod Email: [email protected] Join our ‘Independent Company’ to watch our livestreams, get earlybird tickets and our weekly newsletter - packed with deals. Membership Club: patreon.com/wehaveways Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.0

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0:11.0

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0:15.2

show tickets that's Patreon dot com slash we have ways Achtung, Achtung, and if ever there was a place to say such a thing, this isn't it, right, Jim?

0:38.8

Oh my goodness, it's amazing, isn't it?

0:40.5

So we've just walked down a kind of a little grassy track which back in the

0:46.8

wartime would have been the entrance route for trucks and you come into a kind of

0:51.2

sort of concrete trench with some railway lines so presumably the trucks are

0:57.0

delivering ammunition. Yeah. Um, which is then disappearing into a dark tunnel at the end of which is going to be the old gun pit for a massive

1:05.8

13 inch 30.5 12 inch. Yeah yeah yeah 12 inch gun anyway we're here with Steve from

1:12.3

Feston Guernsey, and very excited about it.

1:15.4

Honestly, the excitement levels have been building all morning at the prospect of all this

1:18.7

vast amount of Nazi concrete.

1:20.5

I don't know if you could tell, um, uh, listeners, but James is very, very excited about this

1:28.0

morning.

1:30.0

Of course, we're in Guernsey, as Jim saidestun-Gernsey or Gustav as it was designated by the Germans.

1:37.0

Fest and Gustav?

1:38.0

It's Gustav.

1:39.0

The swine.

1:40.0

And no one will ever work that code word out, will they? Steve, you're a, I mean you know this stuff inside out, you know these places inside out.

1:48.2

This is what, how many sites are we talking on Guernsey?

1:51.6

Well you'd be surprised to know that on such a small island there was actually between 800 and

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