The Great Escape - Alexander Desmond Neely

The Great Escape - Alexander Desmond Neely

Joseph Quinn joined us to tell us the story of Alexander Desmond Neely, known by his middle name, of the Fleet Air Arm. He was an enthusiastic tunneller throughout his time as a prisoner of war, and some of his original documents are held by the "Their Finest Hour " project, run by the University of Oxford.

For You The War Is Over is a podcast that looks at the real life stories of Prisoner-of-War escapes from the the Second World War. Hosted by Dave Robertson and Tony Hoskins, each episode looks at a new escape.

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The Great Escape - Escape Maps

The Great Escape - Escape Maps

Dianne Rutherford joined us to look at the need, function, and production of the escape maps for the Great Escape. While working as a curator at the Australian War Memorial, Dianne studied and cared f...

3 Jan 202531min

The Great Escape - Production

The Great Escape - Production

In this episode we were joined Peter Wood and Mike Jackson, from The Great Escape Project. They have spent a number of years first looking at what it was the POWs in the Great Escape produced, and the...

27 Des 202448min

The Great Escape - Scrounging

The Great Escape - Scrounging

Marc Stevens, whose father, Peter Stevens, was head scrounger in the East Compound at Stalag Luft III, joins us for this episode in which he tells his father's incredible story, before discussing the ...

20 Des 202441min

The Great Escape - Tunnelling

The Great Escape - Tunnelling

In this episode we were joined by Professor Hugh Hunt, professor of Engineering at Trinity College, Cambridge to talk about tunnelling. Professor Hunt has recorded a number of documentaries on the Gre...

13 Des 202435min

The Great Escape - X Committee

The Great Escape - X Committee

We were delighted to be joined by Mark Kozak-Holland, author of the "Lessons From History" series, including the book, "Project Lessons from the Great Escape". Mark is an academic in Project Managemen...

6 Des 202456min

The Great Escape - The SBO

The Great Escape - The SBO

In this episode we were joined not just by the family of Herbert Martin Massey, the Senior British Officer in Stalag Luft III, but also his official biographer, Andrew White. In the first of our biogr...

29 Nov 202455min

The Great Escape - German Security

The Great Escape - German Security

In the second episode of the Great Escape Series, we are joined by Derek Mallett, an Associate Professor at the US Army Command and General Staff College. Derek joined us to tell us all about those in...

22 Nov 202445min

The Great Escape - Stalag Luft III

The Great Escape - Stalag Luft III

For the first episode of our series on the Great Escape we are delighted to be joined by Professor Peter Doyle, who has done a great deal of work in, and on, Stalag Luft III, having been part of the t...

15 Nov 202452min

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