Hello everyone welcome back to the history hit warfare podcast I'm your host James Rogers and in this episode we're looking at the British resistance

That's right we've heard of the French resistance and recently we had an expert on the Danish Resistance.

Well in this episode we have Chris Pratt from the British Resistance Museum

which is part of Parham Airfield Museum in Suffolk,

go and visit over the summer support your

local museums if you can and he tells us about these highly trained forces

that were kept behind ready to go if the Nazis had ever invaded the UK.

When I think of those who were on the home front, I think of the home guard.

I think of the bumbling bunch of Dad's Army, your Manerings, your Pikes and your Joneses, but it turns out I'm completely wrong.

Chris Pratt brings us a whole new take on this history, to the point where they were so highly trained that as it became clear that the Nazis weren't

going to invade, so many of them were drafted into the SAS and they were taken and sent off

into occupied hostile territory.

These were highly trained guerrillas.

It's truly a fascinating episode,

so here he is, here's Chris Pratt on the British Resistance. Hi Chris welcome to the warfare podcast how you doing today.

Hello there. We're, thank you very much.

Are you in Denmark?

It's still very cold over here now.

Yeah, I am still in Denmark.

The sun is starting to come out, but yeah, I hear the UK is going through a bit of a cold

spell you got some more snow on the way they're threatening us that for this weekend

but I don't think it'll get as far south and east of Suffolk least I hope hope not anyway. Yes okay so you're

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