The Great Escape - Jens Müller

Our regular host, Tony Hoskins, takes a look at the life of Great Escaper, Dennis Cochran, a Londoner who was actually born Dennis Cockram. While this name change created some difficulty when research...

22 Touko 202525min

Erin Gregory, the Curator at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum, joined us to look into the life and escape of her fellow Canadian, Gordon Kidder, who was a linguistics expert, and who teamed up wit...

15 Touko 202540min

Our regular host, Dave Robertson, takes a look at the life and escape of Tom Kirby-Green, a hugely colourful character who was the Big-S, head of security, for the X Committee. He escaped with Gordon ...

8 Touko 202536min

Our regular host, Tony Hoskins, tells us about the life and escape of Bedrich Dvorak, a Czech escaper who, alongside his escape partner, Desmond Plunkett, was one of the last to be recaptured. Indeed,...

1 Touko 202532min

Dr Lucy Inglis, Archivist at King's College School, Wimbledon, joined us to tell us about Des Plunkett, the school's former pupil. Plunkett was in charge of the map making team, which produced thousan...

24 Huhti 202540min

Donna Robson, who grew up having no idea that Raymond Van Wymeersch was her grandfather, joined us to tell not just his story, but also her own story about how she found out who he was and the journey...

17 Huhti 202533min

Dave Robertson, takes a look at the life and escape of Anthony Hayter, who was operating out of Malta at the time he was shot down and taken prisoner-of-war. He was to go on to be a key member of the ...

10 Huhti 202528min

We were joined by the niece, great niece, and great great nephew of Arnold Christensen, a New Zealander who escaped with James Catanach. They joined us to share the story of his life, service, and esc...

3 Huhti 202535min