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
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 Nov 20244min
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 Okt 202456min
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 Jul 20241h 27min
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 Jul 202457min
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 Jul 202434min
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 Jun 202437min
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 Jun 202438min
