Episode 370: Operation Frankton

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

Lions Led By Donkeys

Comedy

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

The British military, faced with the seemingly insurmountable problem of a heavily defended port, decide that there is nothing that methed out kayak-borne commandos on a suicide mission cannot handle. Sources: CE Lucas Phillips. The Cockleshell Heroes: The Most Courageous and Imaginative Commando Raid of WWII Quentin Rees. Cockleshell Heroes: The Final Witness. Robert Lyman. Operation Suicide: The Remarkable Story of the Cockleshell Raid https://www.historyextra.com/period/second-world-war/cockleshell-heroes-who-what-operation-frankton-ww2/ https://www.historyisnowmagazine.com/blog/2024/10/2/operation-frankton-the-most-daring-raid-of-world-war-2 https://www.cwgc.org/our-work/blog/operation-frankton-the-true-story-of-the-cockleshell-heroes/

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1:08.3	Fellas, how are you doing? I'm very happy to be in yet another in a sequence of dungeons that we've spent in this weekend.
1:12.2	This is a nice dungeon though.
1:14.3	It's a basement, but it's, it's very comfortable.
1:16.5	We've been, we did our live show yesterday.
1:19.9	I did two in the same venue, and it was, it was a lovely space.
1:21.2	Well, it will be when it's finished.
1:22.1	It's currently unfinished.
1:25.3	It's all concrete, basically concrete and dust floor.
1:26.5	Concrete ceilings.
1:28.6	We got to record in a bunker the acoustics reflect that the first day there were 300 people in the room and it was 33 degrees outside that's
1:35.1	that's Celsius for the american so it probably about 90 Fahrenheit it was about 100 Fahrenheit in
1:41.1	there and about 100% humidity and I think it's going to take me about two
1:44.8	weeks to recover. I could see it as like a miasma in the air because I sat in the back of the room
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