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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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History, Education, Society & Culture

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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As a part of our continuing effort to commemorate the incredible global story of WW2, we present our ongoing ‘Family Stories’ series. This series tells YOUR relatives’ stories of derring do - both on the front line and home front. In this episode we hear your tales of operatic performances, using POW letters to plan daring missions, and life inside Churchill's Secret Army. With thanks to Rupert Alston, Adrian Duffield, Sam Watson, Lise Broer, Philip Fryer, and Alexander Justham. Start your free trial at ⁠patreon.com/wehaveways⁠ and unlock exclusive content and more. Enjoy livestreams, early access, ad-free listening, bonus episodes, and a weekly newsletter packed with book deals and behind-the-scenes insights. Members also get priority access and discounts to live events. Get your ticket for We Have Ways Fest 6 here! A Goalhanger Production Produced by James Regan Assistant Producer: Alfie Norris Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Social: @WeHaveWaysPod Social Producer: Harry Balden Email: wehaveways@goalhanger.com Membership Club: patreon.com/wehaveways Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:06.6	Hello and welcome to our series of family stories, the podcast written by you, the listeners.
1:13.2	Today we're doing a special family stories episode focused on the too often overlooked role of women during the war.
1:16.6	This week, we're starting with a story from Rupert.
1:18.1	Yes, and Rupert says,
1:24.0	My grandmother was definitely the matriarch of the family, but to me, she was just granny.
1:28.8	And as a teenager, I loved nothing more than sitting with her and granddad, chatting away together as she darned a sock, with torah, torra, torah, replaying in the
1:33.3	background for the umpteenth time. I knew she'd been a radio operator in the war. After all, that's
1:39.3	how she met Grandad, having been posted from her native Yorkshire to Suffolk, there meeting this handsome young
1:45.7	farmer, her future husband. But it was only at her funeral in 2006 when John Warwicka,
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