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welcome to We have ways to make you talk Normandy.

With me Al Murray and James Holland, as you can hear, the birds tweeting in the background,

maybe you can hear the river Odon, flowing mellifulously in the background. Maybe you can hear the river Odonne flowing

mellifulously in the background.

We're in Normandy and in our last episode we were telling the story of the

Epsom battles and the attempt to get to Hill 112.

Yep, get across the Odon.

Get that bridge head across the Odon.

That was the idea.

We've just done that.

We have just driven across the Odon.

Took us what, 10 minutes from the last place yeah but we're we're kind of a good

good five miles or so seven miles I'd say but yeah five miles from where we started

the rolling barrage ahead of us.

I think, I mean, one of the, so, the praise is, the idea is to get across the Odon

and ultimately to get to the high ground at Hill 1-1-2.

Yes because that really does sort of command the battlefield all around,

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