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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Gomorrah 1943 - Part 1

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

It was planned to be a war ending raid, with thousands of bombs dropped on Hamburg on the 2nd and 3rd August 1943. In the first of a two-part special on the firebombing, Al Murray and James Holland look at the history behind these indiscriminate bombing campaigns and the moral implications of Arthur Harris’ plan. A Goalhanger Films Production Produced by Joey McCarthy Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Twitter: #WeHaveWays @WeHaveWaysPod Website: wehavewayspod.com Members’ Club: patreon.com/wehaveways Email: wehavewayspodcast@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

We're going to end up on something, aren't we? But I mean, we've some brief catching up to do. Fun weekend.

0:20.0

You were in the oval for four days straight. Yeah, it was so slightly overindulgent, really, but a lot of fun.

0:28.0

For those in the world who don't understand cricket, I'm sorry about that, but it's been a lovely few days.

0:36.0

It was very good to see you yesterday. I'm sorry, I missed the street cricket in the competition.

0:42.0

It was a great, it was an enjoyable afternoon of drinking when the rain had started, basically.

0:48.0

Well, and also, since we last make, obviously, I've been seeing your play, which I thought was absolutely brilliant.

0:53.0

I think you've really loved it. The Holland family all came out, didn't we?

0:58.0

It was very nice. And it was completely brilliant. I loved how it was in the best tradition of restoration comedies.

1:05.0

It was kind of sort of raucous and uproarious, genuinely very, very laugh out loud, funny.

1:11.0

And the whole thing was just a fantastic night out. I get a bit put off both there to some type of thing, but it gets a little bit too pretentious for me.

1:19.0

What I loved about it was it was just a really, well, really good fun out.

1:25.0

It ain't pretentious. That's one thing.

1:28.0

The other thing is, so we were at the cricket with these friends of mine, Sally and Connor.

1:34.0

Sally always has these sort of second world war tipped bits that she sort of goes, oh, yes, and my member this.

1:39.0

And you think, oh, yes, it tells something else truly amazing.

1:42.0

So she said her grandfather, so her father's father used to talk about how he was on a battleship.

1:48.0

Now that maybe it is a battleship he was talking about. Well, we don't know, right?

1:51.0

Because this has come. Yeah, we respect Clayton yesterday. It might be heavy cruiser.

1:54.0

Yeah, yeah. And the story he had was when they were attacked by Italian biplanes defending Malta.

2:01.0

So early in the war, this will be Cape Matapan or the Captain directed the main guns to fire at the biplanes.

2:11.0

And the air turbulence from the, you know, I don't know, four and a half inch shell or whatever, a nine inch shell or whatever.

2:17.0

Well, we don't know, right? Well, we're bigger than that, wouldn't it?

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