The Great Escape - Forgery
Robert Laplander, historian and author of "The True Story of the Wooden Horse", has done extensive research on prisoners of war and escapers from Stalag Luft III, and revealed an unexpected penchant f...
17 Jan 202540min
The Great Escape - Food
An often and easily overlooked, but crucially important, aspect of escaping is the provision of food. In the Great Escape, the X Committee had an entire department dedicated to providing food rations ...
10 Jan 202542min
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
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 Dec 202448min
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 Dec 202441min
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 Dec 202435min
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 Dec 202456min
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
