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🗓️ 9 January 2024
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Your country needs you! This week we travel with Neil and the Pals Battalions to France. It’s 7.30 a.m. on the first day of the battle of the Somme, the deadliest day in British military history.
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0:00.0 | The famous five are away on a splendid weekend adventure. |
0:03.5 | Do we have to go home today? |
0:05.5 | sighed Anne. |
0:06.5 | I agree said Dick. |
0:08.0 | Even Timmy looks sad. |
0:09.5 | Cheer up everyone. |
0:11.5 | Beams Julian, I booked long weekend tickets we can return anytime on Monday |
0:17.0 | Oh you are clever Julian said Anne save over 50% with the long weekend a ticket from Great Western Railway. |
0:24.4 | Adventures start here. Selected routes turn supply. |
0:27.6 | Saving in comparison to an anytime return fare. |
0:30.0 | Greetings fellow time travellers, as I always say it's lovely to have you with me as we travel through space and time and it's always true. |
0:40.0 | To help support the making of this podcast series and to get exclusive content every week, |
0:47.0 | sign up to my Patreon.com site if you will. |
0:50.0 | It's easy, go to Patreon.com, search for me by name pay a bit of cash monthly or |
0:56.1 | annually it's cheaper if you sign up for the whole year all at once but in any |
1:00.1 | event join us it'd be great to see you there. |
1:03.0 | Okay, that's the advert over. |
1:05.0 | Now it's time to strap into the time machine as we set off towards the next stop in my love letter to the world. |
1:11.0 | Record, microphone, action. |
1:13.4 | Your country needs you. |
1:20.3 | Your country needs you. Build is the adventure of a lifetime. |
1:24.0 | The call goes out and within eight weeks, three quarters of a million British men and boys have volunteered to fight. |
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