247. Family Stories: Annabel Venning

247. Family Stories: Annabel Venning

From today We Have Ways is bringing you a bonus weekend episode called Family Stories. We’re launching the series with Annabel Venning, who joins Al and James to explain how she researched her own family’s experience from the Blitz to Burma resulting in her book ‘To War With The Walkers’. Each Sunday Al and James will read the wartime family stories from you, our listeners. If you would like your family story to be considered please send us no more than 500 words, either by email to wehavewayspodcast@gmail.com or on the Patreon site under the Family Stories tab. If you email us, please make the subject ‘Family Stories’. To War With The Walkers: https://www.waterstones.com/book/to-war-with-the-walkers/annabel-venning/9781473679320 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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