The Race for the Bomb

We Are History

Angela Barnes and John O'Farrell

History

4.9 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Angela Barnes and John O’Farrell are back with Series 8 of the hit podcast which romps through history unravelling fascinating and down-right bizarre events. This time: how the Nazis and Allies became locked in a race for the atom bomb, keeping it a total secret from everyone except all the Russian spies. Get all episodes a week early – when you support We Are History on Patreon: https://patreon.com/WeAreHistory Reading List: Atomic: The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb 1939-49 by Jim Baggott 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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0:19.1	Hello and welcome to We Are History Series 8, John.
0:23.8	Eight, I've lost cow.
0:25.1	Eight. I mean, some of them had about two and a half episodes in, but series eight.
0:29.7	I don't use the number system for this. I use like the Chinese New Year. This is a series of the monkey.
0:34.3	Lovely. Beautiful.
0:36.6	Next series is a series of the cow.
0:40.9	We are back.
0:42.1	We're still with the lovely Podmasters people.
0:44.1	They haven't got rid of us, John.
0:45.2	I know, fantastic.
0:46.1	We're still here.
0:47.1	Yeah, and thank you for all your downloads and nice comments while we've been away.
0:51.0	And your Patreon membership and all of that stuff.
0:53.4	We really appreciate it. And
0:54.8	because of that, we're able to come back and do another one. Fantastic. Cool. So, John,
0:59.4	you're leading this week. We are, can you believe, we're doing the Cold War and I chose it.
1:06.3	Makes no sense. I mean, people listening will be going, there's no way John chose this and Angela didn't.
1:11.3	Actually, it's not the Cold War. It's the war and afterwards. So I went to see Oppenheimer, Angela.
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