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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Landing Craft, Sappers and the Tyranny of Overlord

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

History, Education, Society & Culture

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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In another wide ranging discussion, Al Murray tells James Holland about his evening at the Royal Engineers Museum alongside Jools Holland and Sir Tom Jones, the tactical importance of landing craft, and how often they think about invading Wiltshire.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

Thank you for listening to We Have Ways of Making You Talk.

0:05.0

Sign up to our Patreon to receive bonus content, live streams, and our weekly newsletter,

0:11.0

with money off books and museum visits as well plus early access to all live

0:15.1

show tickets that's patron dot com slash we have ways Alam, alarm, alarm, Alam, alarm, alarm. Welcome to We have Ways of Making You Talk in the second 700 tranche of episodes

0:39.8

that we're currently embarked.

0:41.6

I'm sorry, but we got currently embarked. We got a bit of pushback, didn't we, from the bosses on alarm alarm, but I like it.

0:48.2

I like it.

0:49.2

I think it's, you know, it's just one of those little brand j of those little brown jushes isn't it you know you see this from time to time

0:55.9

when they suddenly called Kit Kat tick-tock or something and they have to change it back to Kit Kat

0:59.6

it'd be like that yeah yeah yeah at some point I think it'd be good to do Tally-ho, Tally-ho.

1:04.8

Well you know what, let's do that episode 1401.

1:08.0

All right, that's a deal.

1:12.0

So you've had an exciting time thing. You're on half-term in France, and so thank you for Joce for

1:17.2

making, for sacrificing an hour of your holiday. That's very noble of you.

1:20.3

It's a great pleasure. Jim, I've got my friend, my friend's up on its fat legs.

1:25.0

I saw some amazing pictures of you looking very pucker

1:29.0

last week down and Chatham with Jules Holland and Tom Jones. I mean what the heck who ever knew?

1:36.0

Well as guests of the of the new Chief Royal, so there's a new Chief Royal engineer, they do four

1:41.0

guest nights a year. It was brilliant. Suddenly you realize you were a cocktail party talking to the former commanding officer of 16 air assault.

1:48.0

Right? Who is now, you know, who's one of the you know one of the people writing doctrine and stuff is just

1:54.0

so interesting and then the head of the TA or the reserve for army the Army

1:58.6

reserve got talking to him and just really really fascinating and then sitting on the top table so I went with the

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