The Great Escape - Neville McGarr
Neville McGarr was a South African fighter pilot who overcame childhood Polio to become a pilot, and then endured a three day march across the desert with no food or water before being captured close ...
9 Jan 28min
The Great Escape - Paul Royle
Holly Harris, a young academic whose work looks at Allied Prisoners of War during the Second World War, joined us to look at Paul Royle, an Australian who was a dispersal 'penguin' for the Great Escap...
2 Jan 39min
The Great Escape - Edgar Humphreys
Edgar Humphreys was one of three ‘Halton Brats’ involved in the Great Escape, and he was also one of the two murdered Great Escapers who had been known personally by Frank McKenna, the lead RAF Police...
26 Dec 202540min
The Great Escape - Denys Street
Peter Sinclair joined us to recount of Denys Street, the son of the Air Ministry’s Permanent Secretary at the time. He was both a tunneller and a ‘penguin’ involved in dispersal who, along with his es...
19 Dec 202540min
The Great Escape - Leslie Brodrick
Leslie Brodrick served under Wing Commander Guy Gibson, of 'Dambusters' fame, before being shot down, being sent to Stalag Luft III and was one of the 26 to survive the Great Escape. We were joined by...
12 Dec 202540min
The Great Escape - Henry 'Hank' Birkland
Laura Imrie, a Curator at National Air Force Museum of Canada joined us to look at the life and escape of Henry 'Hank' Birkland, himself a Canadian, and one of the key tunnellers in the Great Escape, ...
5 Dec 202529min
The Great Escape - Gordon Brettell
Gordon Brettell was something of an adrenalin junkie! A pre-war racing driver in his spare time, he was a Fighter Pilot who completed over 100 sorties, before getting stuck into the escaping lark, wor...
28 Nov 202533min
The Great Escape - Henri Picard
Karel Strobbe, a Belgian historian and author, joined us to look at the life and escape of the Belgian artist, forger, and a member of the 'Amiable Lunatics', Henri Picard. For You The War Is Over is ...
21 Nov 202541min
