THE BATTLE OF THE NORTH CAPE: SCHARNHORST - SUNK
In the final episode of Al Murray and James Holland's naval odyssey, they document the final hours of the mighty Scharnhorst. Was it British Naval excellence, or German incompetence that sunk the infa...
23 Jan 20241h 5min
USA - We Have Ways: Supply and Demand and the Global War Machine
What was more significant for America in the 20th century - the crushing of Nazism in Europe, or their multiple campaigns for democracy across Asia? Al Murray, James Holland and John McManus answer th...
18 Jan 202445min
BATTLE OF THE NORTH CAPE: The Trap Is Set
Christmas Eve 1943, Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser and the men of Convoy JW55B are in a tense holding pattern up against the Nazi U-boats. Al Murray and James Holland document the final days before The Batt...
16 Jan 202451min
BATTLE OF THE NORTH CAPE: The Convoy Assembles
One of the most dramatic naval battles of the Second World War - high in the Arctic Circle on Boxing Day, 1943. Al Murray and James Holland set sail for another Naval adventure as they track the sink...
11 Jan 202449min
USA: We Have Ways - Pacific 44
James Holland and John McManus review the war in the Pacific 1944 - the year in which the US truly becomes the most powerful nation in the world. John discusses the duplicitous nature of America's re...
9 Jan 202451min
Italian Hell: San Pietro, Monte Sammucro and Night Fighting
Al Murray, James Holland and John McManus discuss the Allies' experience of fighting in the mountains of Italy in the brutal winter of 1943’ - especially the horrendous conditions in San Pietro and Mo...
4 Jan 20241h 2min
Mark Clark's Total War
Al Murray and James Holland discuss the beauty of naval acronyms, the fine details of the Eureka signal and the myth of Kesselring's fine war record. They also look into General Mark Clark's blisterin...
2 Jan 202427min
Skinning The Cat: How to Write History
Al Murray and James Holland are joined by academic and author Jonathan Fennell at St Edmund Hall bar to talk about their writing processes. From operating archives in China and Russia, finding the tru...
28 Des 202350min
