The Great Escape - Sotiris Skantzikas

The Great Escape - Sotiris Skantzikas

Sotiris Skantzikas, the only Greek Great Escaper, was the escape partner of Jimmy James, but there is very little information available about his life otherwise. However, Dave Robertson had a dig around and managed to find out more about the adventurous life he lived in just 22 short years.

For You The War Is Over is a podcast, hosted by Dave Robertson and Tony Hoskins, which looks at the real life stories of Prisoner-of-War escapes from the the Second World War.

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The Great Escape - Series Intro

The Great Escape - Series Intro

We are hugely excited, after seven series, to finally be bringing you an entire series looking exclusively at... The Great Escape!In an extended series we will be joined by historians, academics, expe...

8 Marras 20244min

Bonus Episode - Pte. R Bailey (with Special Guest David Wilkins)

Bonus Episode - Pte. R Bailey (with Special Guest David Wilkins)

To coincide with the recent release of his book, "Blighty or Bust", we are joined in this bonus episode by David Wilkins to tell us about the escape of Private Raymond Bailey, who was captured in 1940...

24 Loka 202456min

Escapes on Film (Special Guest: Steve Summers)

Escapes on Film (Special Guest: Steve Summers)

For so many of us the movies of escapes are how we first come to love POW escape stories. We were therefore delighted to be joined by Steve Summers, director of the "War Movie" documentary, to provide...

18 Heinä 20241h 27min

Sgts. WA Shannon, AR Dow and EBM Helme

Sgts. WA Shannon, AR Dow and EBM Helme

In this the 80th anniversary of D-Day we are looking at an incredible joint escape by three POWs, Shannon, Dow and Helme, all of whom were Glider pilots who were captured on D-Day. We were also triall...

11 Heinä 202457min

Sgt. P. Bakalarski

Sgt. P. Bakalarski

The second part of the second double header of the series, Sgt. Piotr Bakalarski intersected with Raginis' own escape on a number of occasions, but this episode covers the escape from Bakalarski's per...

4 Heinä 202434min

Sgt. W. Raginis

Sgt. W. Raginis

Still just a teenager at the time of his escape, Sgt. Witold Raginis travelled thousands of miles from Poland to Gibraltar, by train and on foot, all while his family were under threat from the Nazi o...

27 Kesä 202437min

Leading Seaman AE Penny

Leading Seaman AE Penny

One of the most meticulously well planned and executed escapes we have come across, Leading Seaman Penny was a submariner who escaped from a camp in Italy and made his way to the Vatican City - a full...

20 Kesä 202438min

Pte. LA Coe

Pte. LA Coe

Captured in Northern France in 1940, Coe was the very first to escape from a POW camp, escaping from a satellite camp in Danzig, from where he made the short escape to the port, and stowed away on a s...

13 Kesä 202439min

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