Hello everyone welcome back to the history hit World Wars podcast. I'm your host James

Rogers and in this episode we're digging back through the archives from the

Chalk Valley History Festival and we're bringing you a brilliant talk by the

one and only Al Murray. He is of course best known as his alter ego the pub landlord,

but he's a documentary maker, a published author, an Oxford history grad and he has a passion for all things World War II.

In 2017 he took to the stage at Chalk Valley History Festival

where he spoke about the best known British commander of all,

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, his favourite topic.

Al provides a fascinating and of course entertaining assessment of Monti and his command

during the defense of L. Alamee. Okay. Okay.

Thank you, James, and thanks for being invited. It is a pleasure and a privilege for me as a comedian

to speak to a room full of people who know about history,

history enthusiasts experts about the subject they know far more about

than I do.

So the first thing I want to really get out of the way

is I'm not doing my act this evening.

You're not going to get any of that stuff.

The people, no, the people in the front row you're entirely safe.

I won't be working the house. like what's your name by the way?

Giles lovely there you go now and what do you do, Giles?

You work for the National Museum of the Royal Navy.

Brilliant, keep it up.

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