Royal family's vital wartime role

Pod Save The King

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3.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Britain prepares to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day while in the grip of the biggest crisis since the war. During the current coronavirus pandemic, the royal family are adapting their work, pitching in and finding new ways to communicate - just as they did in wartime. Dr Alan Jeffreys, a senior curator in the Imperial War Museum's Second World War team joins Pod Save The Queen host Ann Gripper to talk about what the royal family did during World War II, just how much danger they were in and the impact it had on the country. Subscribe to the podcast to follow unfolding royal family news.Join the conversation about the episode on Instagram and Twitter @podsave.Sign up to get a daily email with the latest royal news at www.mirror.co.uk/email Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	POD Save the Queen!
0:05.0	Hello and welcome back to POD Save the Queen.
0:08.0	I'm your host Anne Gripper and we have a tremendous guest with us today.
0:12.0	We have our first ever doctor on the show. It is Dr.
0:15.9	Alan Jeffries. Welcome to the show, Alan. Thanks very much. So don't worry, Dr Jeffries is not
0:21.7	here because of the coronavirus. He is a senior curator in the Second World War team at the Imperial War Museum.
0:30.8	So what is your what is your doctor of instead, Alan? In history, yeah. Yeah and my
0:38.3	specialist area is actually India and the Indian Army in the Second World War, but I've also written on the home front.
0:45.0	Excellent. So this is an episode that I have been wanting to do for a little while because
0:51.0	as we all know the Royal Family had a kind of had a very interesting role
0:57.6	during the Second World War. I'm sure lots of people, lots of our listeners will
1:00.8	have watched the King's speech that Oscar winning film with Colin Firth.
1:05.4	The Queen obviously famously took a role working during the Second World War as well.
1:11.8	And then in this time of coronavirus crisis when
1:16.2	we've had another extraordinary broadcast from the Queen in fact so we are
1:21.2	recording this we are what are we, Thursday after Easter. So we've had the Queen's
1:26.7	original broadcast message when she sent her message to the country and the Commonwealth. And then we've
1:31.8	had her Easter message since but this
1:34.1	episode will be going out in a couple of weeks time so who knows what will have
1:37.6	happened and evolved since then but there is something about the coming
1:42.3	together of the country and looking to the Royal Family
1:45.2	that I thought it would be interesting to explore through looking back at history.
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