The Greatest War Fiction

WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

Goalhanger Podcasts

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.8 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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We spend a lot of time speaking about non-fiction, but what are the greatest works of historical fiction? Al Murray interviews James Holland about his new novel 'Alvesdon', a fictional portrait of a farming family during the Second World War. 📖 Alvesdon is available from the 13th June in all good bookshops A Goalhanger Production Produced by Joey McCarthy Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Social: @WeHaveWaysPod Email: [email protected] Join our ‘Independent Company’ to watch our livestreams, get earlybird tickets and our weekly newsletter - packed with deals. Membership Club: patreon.com/wehaveways Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:53.7	Ach too, action, welcome. Acton, Achtung! Welcome to We Have Ways of Making You Talk with me
1:06.9	Al Murray and James Holland, the World War II
1:09.7	podcast of choice, as it has been this week as I see that our D-Day episodes are creeping up the
1:16.6	ch- like a commander on his belly in full tactical mode with it.
1:19.9	DAG up between his teeth, creeping, wearing his cat comforter.
1:22.6	Well, I've, yes, and I've been thinking a lot about command days this week because I've just been in
1:28.7	Norway, which has been fantastic.
1:30.5	Yeah.
1:31.5	The odds and sort of came, oh, you know, where would you cite your bunker and
1:34.5	feeling a little kind of, you know, if you're on a clapper boat, where would you, where would you
1:37.4	canoe and yeah, and one of the things that really really struck me more than anything else is
1:41.6	just how absolutely ridiculous it is to try and
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