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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

The Alexander Collection

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.84.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Al and James go through the Alexander Collection from The National Archives to discuss morale, welfare and discipline of the Allies in Italy and the Mediterranean throughout the war. 


A Goalhanger Films Production

Produced by Harry Lineker

Exec Producer: Tony Pastor

Twitter: #WeHaveWays @WeHaveWaysPod

Website: wehavewayspod.com

Email: [email protected]


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0:00.0

Music

0:11.0

Achtung! Achtung! Welcome to We Have Ways of Making You Talk with me, Almarie and James Holland.

0:15.2

And the Frosters bit where I am, Jim, the snow, the snow on the ground, even here in London.

0:19.6

Yeah, we have snow, yes, snow, it was quite exciting.

0:21.6

Yep. My days he woke up, or, you know, full of it, but it just wasn't enough to go to boggling.

0:26.2

The big problem is in Salisbury, we're out of fuel, there's no petrol.

0:30.7

Really? No. I mean, hopefully there is this morning because I've wondered around in Rachel's car,

0:36.8

her modern golf looking for fuel. Now it's saying, you have no miles left, do you want me to help

0:44.0

you find a petrol station? It's not going to help me because there isn't any petrol.

0:48.0

A cheapest. Oh my god. Well, you know, well nothing works at the moment, does it? Anyway,

0:53.2

I've got the dogs. Now you used sent me, well, a couple of things,

0:57.8

I've had an interesting weekend, especially in few days.

1:01.3

I mean, first things first, over the weekend, someone on Twitter said, hey look,

1:04.9

Spike Milligan's battery-sadred major's diary is up for sale.

1:10.3

And tweeted me that, and I've afforded it to you, and you're like, I've bought it!

1:15.8

I literally couldn't get that quick enough. So I went onto AB Books of which, frankly,

1:20.5

I should have shares. I spent an awful lot of money on AB Books.

1:25.6

And I always try and get the cheapest hardback. I don't want to pay for that because it's very hard

1:31.6

to annotate a paperback. And in the old days, those paperbacks, you know, they sort of, you know,

1:35.3

pan paperbacks and cookies. They're what's called A4 Mac. So most paperbacks, these days,

1:40.7

are B4 Mac, so they're a little bit bigger. But A4 Mac is that really tiny one.

1:45.7

Small book. In the moment, you're small book. Small book. It's a small print cheap paper. The

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