WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

The Second World War touched everyone’s lives, with many of our listeners’ families witnessing extraordinary events. In this edition of We Have Ways of Making You Talk we hear of an escape from Singap...

4 Apr 202124min

Selma van de Perre was a Dutch resistance fighter who was just 17 years old when the Second World War began. Using an alias and fake ID she risked her life travelling across the Netherlands, deliverin...

1 Apr 202149min

A listener’s recent discovery that his uncle may have been one of the 258 British soldiers accused of mutiny in Malaya sends the podcast down an intriguing rabbit hole. James Holland gives Al Murray a...

30 Mars 202149min

Listeners to We Have Ways of Making You Talk write the scripts for our Sunday morning podcasts, as Al Murray and James Holland read out their family stories from the Second World War. This week we hea...

28 Mars 202125min

Although Ireland remained neutral during the war it didn’t stop Irish men joining the British Armed Forces. Joseph Quinn joins Al Murray and James Holland to discuss why so many Irish men joined the B...

25 Mars 20211h 1min

James Holland and Al Murray get their hands on the post-operation report of Veritable, review the success of the Chindits and dig deeper into the extraordinary story of some missing brass instruments....

23 Mars 202157min

This week we hear more of your war time family stories. Including the story of a ship on an undercover mission; a German woman working in the UK during the war; and a flight crew returning to base lon...

21 Mars 202125min

With historian Frank McDonough and actor Paul McGann. Between 1940 and 1945 the Third Reich fell from the pinnacle of its power to devastating collapse. Historian Frank McDonough, author of The Hitler...

18 Mars 202148min