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Al Murray and James Holland. Best in the West, episode two. And as you all know, by now, well, if you've listened to the first one of these, what we're doing is we're teeing up a fantastic final head-to-head battle between the best generals in the West for we have Waysfest, Funf, putting the fun into Funf, next month in September, September, the 12th, the 14th, where we will be finally wrestling this to the ground, who are the greatest generals of the Second World War were. But voting's already open, isn't it? Yeah, so if you go to the Patreon, if you go to our Patreon, we have ways to make you talk, patron, you will see, right now, Ronald Adam, is on 1%. Harold Alexander's on 24%. The Ork, 1%, Alan Brooks 7. Miles Dempsey, 1%. Miles Dempsey, only 1% I think is a surprise. Yeah, it is, yeah. Yeah, Richard Gale, Windy, on 5%. Percy Hobart, 5%. Brian Horrocks on 4%. She's interesting because he's sort of famous Horrocks, isn't he? Thanks to Edward Fox largely. Richard McCreary, nothing. Well, this is why we need to spend a bit of time of him. Exactly. Manny on 27%. Leslie Moore's head on one. Richard O'Connor on 6. Guy Simmons on 2% and Tuka on 15%, which I think has got a lot to do with your... It's getting in, it's getting through.

It's your advocacy from previous years, Jim, I think, that's done that for Frantz Tigger. But basically what we're doing, we're trying to canter through brief biographies on what we think of these people and then leave it to you to vote. And then, as I said, come to We have We've We've West Fest and watch this finally be put to bed once and for all, so no one need argue about who the best generals are ever again.

That's the idea, isn't it, Jim?

Well, all know.

Clear. Everyone will know. Fest and watch this finally be put to bed once and for all so no one need argue about who

the best generals are ever again. That's the idea, isn't it, Jim? We'll all know. Clear. Everyone will

know. Close that particular book. Move on to something else. Clarity of thought is absolutely essential.

Absolutely. In the last episode, we looked at Ronald Allen, Alexander, Orkinleck, Brooke, Dempsey, Gale, and Hobart, Percy Hobart.

But now we start with another H.

Lieutenant General, Sir Brian Horx.

Horix is, I think, he's another one of these imperial types, isn't he?

He's born in India.

He's an army kid.

His dad's a gunner.

He goes to Uppingham, and then he goes to Sandhurst. And bang on time, he's born in 1895, bang on time for the First World War in the Middle Sixth Regiment. Machine Gun Corps. That's right. Yes. So, that's interesting, isn't it? It becomes a sapper. Then he's gassed in 1917 at Third Eap and then goes to the machine gun corps. and, you know, he has a good First World War with the military cross and all that sort of thing. But then, you know, he's another one of these people. What do I do now? The machine gun corps disbanded after the First World War. And what he does then is extraordinary this, isn't it? Exactly. Yeah, Paris Olympics, 1924, modern pentathlon.

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