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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Jean Moulin and the Maths of Market Garden

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

History, Education, Society & Culture

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Who killed Jean Moulin, and did they get him to talk? Al Murray and James Holland discuss the final days of the resistance hero's life, and how his death has contributed to national myths about occupied France during the Second World War. The boys also discuss the mind boggling figures that surround Operation Market Garden, including some stomach churning facts about injuries in Arnhem A Goalhanger 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

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0:10.0

Acton, acton, welcome to We Have Ways of Making You Talk with Neil Murray and James

0:13.8

Holland and Jim, you've been on some adventures, haven't you?

0:18.6

You've been on the trail of Jean-Moulin?

0:20.4

You have, I mean, I remember we talked about Jean-Moulin a little while ago, but I'd never

0:26.2

actually been out to Leon, which is, I don't know if you've ever been, I mean, it's

0:29.5

a beautiful city.

0:30.7

I've been through Leon.

0:32.3

Okay, well, he's amazing.

0:34.3

I've got off the train there, and you know, I've done all that, that was my previous

0:40.5

experience as well, and I once went near Leon for a wedding, great mate of mine, but I've

0:48.5

never really been to the heart of it, and it is Francis III city, if you don't include

0:53.0

London.

0:54.0

And it's, well, there's that old joke, isn't there, about 600,000 French people being

1:00.7

in London.

1:01.7

It's really lovely, and it's very atmospheric, and it's got these two rivers going through

1:05.1

it, it's got the road and the seon, so it's got the lines and there's Vier Leon, which

1:09.6

has got these things called the Treball, and the Treball is these really, really old walkway,

1:14.8

so you're going down a street and you see this doorway, and you open the doorway, and

1:18.6

instead of being going into a house, it's actually a kind of passageway that's leading

1:22.8

from one side, you know, from one street to another street, and it's all very hidden,

1:27.1

and it's all quite labyrinthine, and so, you know, if you're kind of following the

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