The Glamour Boys

We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

History

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Series 8 of the hit podcast continues to romp its way through history unravelling fascinating and down-right bizarre events. This time: Angela Barnes tells John O’Farrell about The Glamour Boys – a group of courageous queer MPs in buttoned-up Britain of the 1930’s. They put the "party" into "party politics" and were some of the first people to warn the government they needed to stand up to that Hitler. Get all episodes a week early – when you support We Are History on Patreon: https://patreon.com/WeAreHistory Reading List: The Glamour Boys: The Secret Story of the Rebels who Fought for Britain to Defeat Hitler by Chris Bryant. Angela Barnes is on tour with her critically acclaimed, sold out Edinburgh Fringe show ‘Hot Mess’. Tickets are available here https://www.angelabarnescomedy.co.uk We Are History is written and presented by Angela Barnes and John O’Farrell. Audio production by Simon Williams and artwork by James Parrett. Lead Producer is Anne-Marie Luff. Group Editor is Andrew Harrison. We Are History is a Podmasters Production. https://twitter.com/wearehistorypod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to We Are History. I'm John O'Farrell.
0:08.4	And I'm Angela Barnes. Sorry, I've got bits of, we've just had a granola bar and they're really in my teeth.
0:13.4	That's right. This is all live radio. I'm not going to be on. I worry that people can hear the granola bar as I speak.
0:19.8	I've got a look at them. I've got a little bit of seed coming out between their mouth.
0:22.9	Just flying each other across the table.
0:26.2	This week, granola bars aside, Angela has chosen our story and surprise spies.
0:31.7	It's about bloody Germany again, Angela.
0:33.4	Well, I have just been to Berlin, John.
0:35.4	I know.
0:35.7	And our Patreon listeners will know that if they've watched our Berlin, my little Berlin photo album.
0:40.7	Angel's slideshow.
0:41.7	God, you missed a tree there, guys.
0:42.9	We might come up once for twice in this podcast.
0:45.0	But so this is a story that was definitely inspired by my recent trip to Berlin.
0:49.3	And a book that I read by Labour MP Chris Bryant.
0:53.1	Actually, he's a mate of yours.
0:54.1	Is it? He's a MP Chris Bryant actually is a mate of yours isn't he's Sir Chris
0:55.0	Brian now yes you're right he's a mate of mine actually well I sort of know him a bit and he's
0:58.1	always been very nice about things can only get better and he chose it as one of his books
1:01.1	best ever books in the week oh that's nice thank you Chris oh thank you well I hope he likes
1:06.3	this episode yeah it is very much based on the book that he wrote that's called The Glamour Boys.
1:11.7	As always, please get the book and read it.
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