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History Extra podcast - May 2010

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2010

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Laurence Rees explains why Hitler didn’t press his advantage at Dunkirk in 1940. Plus Michael Scott offers his insights into the 490 BC Battle of Marathon. Also this month Gillian Mawson tells the stories of Guernsey’s Second World War child refugees. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:27.5

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0:49.6

excludes plug-in hybrids, Delantis Financial Services. Hello, you're listening to the BBC History Magazine podcast. My name is Dave Musgrove. I'm the magazine's editor, and I'm joined today by Deputy Editor Sue Wingrove.

0:50.0

Hi.

0:51.9

And Feature's editor Rob Asa. Hello.

0:56.2

This is our May 2010 podcast, and we've got free guests this month.

1:01.1

The Allies had known and spotted that was happening and had bombed them there.

1:05.9

Well, I think it's very, very probable that the Second World War would have been over there and then.

1:10.5

That was Lawrence Rees on the German invasion of France in May 1940.

1:15.6

At this point, some brothers and sisters are split up and others lost their luggage in all the confusion.

1:19.2

And they ended up with absolutely nothing to get the clothes on their backs, literally.

1:24.5

That was Gillian Mawson on the evacue children who fled Guernsey after Dunkirk.

1:27.5

As Herodotus recounts the story, it's one of the Athenian generals,

1:29.2

Miltiades, who manages to convince the others

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