238. Sidney Cotton’s Private Airforce
Sidney Cotton played an important role in the development of photographic reconnaissance, taking pictures of Germany and Holland at the start of the war. His personal driver was a young man called Geo...
7 Jan 202123min
237. Robert Bowen - Fighting With Screaming Eagles
Merry Christmas from We Have Ways of Making You Talk. Over the next 12 days Al and James are reading extracts from some of their favourite books about the Second World War. Today Al is reading from Fi...
6 Jan 202142min
236. The Man Who Said Don’t Go
News that Sir Brian Urquhart has died at the age of 101 leads Al Murray and James Holland inexorably back to the intense days prior to the battle of Arnhem. Did Urquhart tell Browning to cancel Market...
5 Jan 202152min
235. Vere Hodgson - Diary of the War
Merry Christmas from We Have Ways of Making You Talk. Over the next 12 days Al and James are reading extracts from some of their favourite books about the Second World War. Today Rachel Holland is rea...
4 Jan 202121min
234. Cornelius Turner - Operation Bunghole
Merry Christmas from We Have Ways of Making You Talk. Over the next 12 days Al and James are reading extracts from some of their favourite books about the Second World War. Today Al is reading from Op...
3 Jan 202116min
233. Stanley Christopherson - An Englishman At War
Merry Christmas from We Have Ways of Making You Talk. Over the next 12 days Al and James are reading extracts from some of their favourite books about the Second World War. Today James is reading from...
2 Jan 202119min
232. Jeffrey Quill - Spitfire
Merry Christmas from We Have Ways of Making You Talk. Over the next 12 days Al and James are reading extracts from some of their favourite books about the Second World War. Today Al is reading from Sp...
1 Jan 202129min
231. Heinz Knoke - I Flew For The Fuhrer
Merry Christmas from We Have Ways of Making You Talk. Over the next 12 days Al and James are reading extracts from some of their favourite books about the Second World War. Today James is reading an e...
31 Dec 202020min
