Summary
A top secret little-known mission that changed the outcome of World War II. Not Alan Turing's Enigma code-breaking mission but a daring foray, conducted behind enemy lines on the shores of Normandy. Harrison Lewis and wetland scientist Christian Dunn re-enact one of the most remarkable feats of the Second World War and discover the intricate details of the daring but forgotten science that underpinned D-Day.
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| 0:00.0 | Before you listen to this BBC podcast I'd like to tell you why I love |
| 0:03.7 | podcasting I'm Natasha Aronson I'm an assistant commissioner for the BBC and I work on |
| 0:09.4 | making podcasts my real passion is discovering unbelievable unheard stories and working with the biggest |
| 0:16.9 | stars who can really bring those stories to life. |
| 0:20.0 | I love the whole process of making podcasts from the spark of an idea to hearing the final edit. |
| 0:26.0 | There's nothing like it. |
| 0:28.0 | What makes BBC podcast special is that we're working for you. |
| 0:31.0 | So whatever we commission has to reflect the things that you care about |
| 0:34.4 | and love wherever you are in the UK. So if you like this BBC podcast, there's so much more to |
| 0:39.5 | discover. Have a listen on BBC sounds. |
| 0:48.0 | So, Vert's a mare here? Yeah. |
| 0:49.0 | Pessie. |
| 0:51.0 | Pessie, yeah. |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.0 | Okay. |
| 0:54.0 | Uh, right? |
| 0:55.0 | You see? |
| 0:57.0 | You see here. Hello, I'm Harrison Lewis. I'm about to disembark from the boat that you can probably hear I'm on. We're looking out onto the French coast, it's Normandy to be |
| 1:18.3 | precise and we're hoping to get onto one of the beaches used for landing by Allied Forces during D-Day. |
| 1:24.8 | We're going to be doing it in order to recreate one of the most remarkable scientific |
| 1:30.1 | experiments of the war. |
| 1:40.0 | By following this route, by retracing these steps, the hope is that we can shine some light on exactly what happened. |
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