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The brain behind the Dambusters raid

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4.34.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The Dambusters raid of May 1943 is one of the most celebrated episodes of the Second World War. But in military terms, was it in fact a flop? And was Barnes Wallis, the man behind the audacious attack, really the maverick genius long depicted in books and film? Richard Morris tells Spencer Mizen how the brilliant mind behind the Dambusters raid made the journey from cantankerous boffin to national hero. (Ad) Richard Morris is the author of Dam Buster: Barnes Wallis: An Engineer’s Life (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2023). Buy it now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Barnes-Wallis-Richard-Morris/dp/1474623425/?tag=bbchistory045-21&ascsubtag=historyextra-social-histboty The HistoryExtra podcast is produced by the team behind BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Just Between Us, the podcast with all of the answers, some of the time.

0:05.0

A bit of a different thing going on this week.

0:07.3

You've been immature and you've lied.

0:10.3

And now you're trying to turn it on me and manipulate me and gaslight me.

0:13.9

I was trying to manipulate you.

0:15.7

Diana, you would be chucking their clothes out of the window.

0:18.1

I know, I'd be like, are you joking?

0:20.6

I don't know.

0:21.7

I guess you'd have to ask.

0:23.5

Someone that has sex.

0:24.2

Someone that has sex.

0:26.2

And remember, it's just between us.

0:32.3

Welcome to the History Extra podcast.

0:35.7

Fascinating historical conversations from BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed.

0:50.5

The Dambuster Raid of May 1944 is one of the most celebrated episodes of the Second World War.

0:58.8

But in military terms, was it in fact a flop? And was Barnes Wallace, the man behind this audacious attack,

1:07.3

really the maverick genius that's been presented in books and films. Richard Morris

1:13.1

addresses these questions in his new book, Dambuster, and Spencer Mizzin spoke to him to find

1:19.3

out more about Wallace's life and legacy. Thank you so much for joining us today. So Barnes Wallace,

1:27.0

he's a subject of your latest book and he's a,

1:30.4

he's a very interesting character, isn't he? To some people, he's being viewed as a kind of

1:37.7

patriotic genius, somebody who embodies all that's best about Britain's pluck and ingenuity in the Second World War.

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