The Culture War
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Goalhanger Podcasts
4.8 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
What were Brits listening and reading during the Second World War, and why did poetry have a renaissance for Tommies on the front line? Al Murray and James Holland talk about wartime culture and the creation of a false English idyll.
Also, in light of this weekend's news from Russia, Al and Jim wonder if parallels can be drawn between the Wagner Group and the Waffen SS.
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Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:10.0 | Acton, acton, welcome to We Have Ways to make you talk with me, Almarie and James Holland, |
| 0:13.8 | your second world podcast for all your second world war needs. |
| 0:16.6 | Jim, well, we're quite a very, very busy and I've been... |
| 0:19.8 | Well, I've done, well, I've done, I've been busy, have we? |
| 0:21.8 | I think we've ever been busy in the four years. |
| 0:24.0 | Yeah, I know, it's extraordinary, really. |
| 0:26.0 | And I've been, you've been sending photos from bloody tank fest, and I've been, |
| 0:30.0 | I've been... |
| 0:30.9 | Yeah, that's kind of... |
| 0:31.7 | ...and I was actually brimful of jealousy. |
| 0:33.1 | Well, I didn't know what to do. |
| 0:34.2 | I didn't know whether it was better to kind of not annoy you or... |
| 0:37.7 | ...or share my clearest thing, a Churchill in action. |
| 0:43.6 | I didn't know quite what to do, and I plomped for the kind of... |
| 0:45.8 | Oh, fuck it, I'm sorry, excuse me. |
| 0:47.8 | Um, I sold it. |
| 0:48.9 | I'll send you the picture of the Churchill and the Panzer III and... |
| 0:52.7 | ...that Churchill's the one with the... |
| 0:55.0 | ...the gear... the gearbox blew up on two or three years ago, isn't it? |
| 0:57.6 | Right. |
| 0:58.1 | And they've had to restore it and they had to... |
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