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Comedian Al Murray and historian James Holland discuss all matters Second World War.
We Have Ways of Making You Talk is a bi-weekly show exploring the war in close up. James and Al have a stunning knowledge of their subject, but don't expect a linear narrative. The boys love a tangent and a forgotten tale.
We Have Ways of Making You Talk roams down forgotten front lines, casts new villains and makes the case for unlikely heroes.
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Thursday 12 May 2022 : The internment of German, Italian and Austrian civilians on the Isle of Man was one of the most controversial decisions taken in wartime...
Tuesday 10 May 2022 : Al Murray and James Holland explore a vivid and heartbreaking article by Paul Fussell about his career in the 7th Army (My War: How I found...
Thursday 05 May 2022 : Al Murray and James Holland continue their tour of HMS Belfast with Nigel Steele and Robert Rumble. In this episode they visit the engine...
Monday 02 May 2022 : Eighty years after Mussolini and Hitler discussed a plan to invade Malta, Al and James debate the chances of its success. Also, Al describes...
Tuesday 26 April 2022 : Al and James are joined by the Head of the Naval Historical Branch Steve Prince to discuss the Naval War Diaries.Listen to Battleground...
Thursday 21 April 2022 : Al Murray and James Holland are joined by legendary historian and Churchill biographer Andrew Roberts.A Goalhanger Films productionProduced...
Tuesday 19 April 2022 : Al Murray and James Holland are on location again, this time they are with Keith Bridgstock of The Garrison Artillery Volunteers. Today...
Thursday 14 April 2022 : From Yacht club sailing to commanding landing crafts in Normandy, Julia Jones details the fascinating stories of those who left behind the...
Friday 08 April 2022 : 40 years since the Falklands War, at the time Britian's most significant military campaign since the Second World War, military history Saul...
Thursday 07 April 2022 : It was the Prussian capital for over 700 years, but now this Baltic port city is an outpost of Russian power.How did the Nazis try to...
Tuesday 05 April 2022 : 73 feet below London - submerged in the fat stench of cigar smoke and adorned with dishevelled tables engraved by Winston Churchill's...
Thursday 31 March 2022 : Bumbling pen pusher or national hero? Al Murray and James Holland are joined by professor Christopher Moran to speak about Ian Fleming's...
Friday 25 March 2022 : James Holland continues his conversation with fighter pilot Des Curtis about his experience with one of the best warbirds of the Second...
Thursday 24 March 2022 : James Holland is joined by Des Curtis and John Lilley to talk about one of the best warbirds of the Second World War - The MosquitoA...
Tuesday 22 March 2022 : Al and James look at post war interrogation documents that focus on German training. They also chat about the Norman Lewis book, Naples 44A...
Thursday 17 March 2022 : “The penicillin project was as ambitious as the Manhattan project”What was more deadly to a WW2 soldier, a bullet or the bacteria on it?...
Tuesday 15 March 2022 : In the first part of a two-part special, Al Murray and James Holland talk about the planning for Operation Barbarossa, the doomed mission...
Sunday 13 March 2022 : Today’s family stories include the desert experiences of an Eighth Army medic, the Sicilian adventures of a dispatch rider and how wooden...
Thursday 10 March 2022 : How did the Second World War in China play a part in the Communist Revolution? Al Murray and James Holland are joined by Oxford historian...
Tuesday 08 March 2022 : Last week we discussed the Battle of Kiev in 1941, today we move forward to 1943 as the Red Army return to the Ukraine. Al and James discuss...
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