We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Goalhanger Films
We Have Ways of Making You Talk
Goalhanger Films
Achtung! Achtung!
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.
Send questions to James and Al via Twitter using #WeHaveWays or by email to [email protected]com
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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...
Thursday 28 April 2022 : Floating on the River Thames, the single most important surviving British Navy vessel from the Second World War, HMS Belfast is enjoying her...
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...
Tuesday 12 April 2022 : Al and James discuss all things Normandy, looking into Montgomery, tanks, and the Battle of the Odon.A Goalhanger Films productionProduced...
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...
Tuesday 29 March 2022 : What do we really know of the experience of an infantryman in the Second World War? Al and James look at life in the infantry and explore...
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?...
Wednesday 16 March 2022 : “All things being equal, the side with the best morale wins”In the second part of our Barbarossa special, Al Murray and James Holland...
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...
Sunday 06 March 2022 : This week’s family stories include remembering a Battle of Britain pilot, a chance meeting of two old adversaries and a tale that...
We Have Ways of Making You Talk
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Public Enemies
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The internment of German, Italian and Austrian civilians on the Isle of Man was one of the most controversial decisions taken in wartime...
Shooting Shadows
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...
HMS Belfast Part Two
Al Murray and James Holland continue their tour of HMS Belfast with Nigel Steele and Robert Rumble. In this episode they visit the engine...
Spies, Germans and Invading Malta
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Eighty years after Mussolini and Hitler discussed a plan to invade Malta, Al and James debate the chances of its success. Also, Al describes...
HMS Belfast: Part One
Floating on the River Thames, the single most important surviving British Navy vessel from the Second World War, HMS Belfast is enjoying her...
Naval War Diaries
Al and James are joined by the Head of the Naval Historical Branch Steve Prince to discuss the Naval War Diaries.Listen to Battleground...
Walking With Destiny: Andrew Roberts on Winston Churchill
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Al Murray and James Holland are joined by legendary historian and Churchill biographer Andrew Roberts.A Goalhanger Films productionProduced...
Fighting With The Sexton
Al Murray and James Holland are on location again, this time they are with Keith Bridgstock of The Garrison Artillery Volunteers. Today...
Volunteer Yachtsman
From Yacht club sailing to commanding landing crafts in Normandy, Julia Jones details the fascinating stories of those who left behind the...
Hill 112
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Al and James discuss all things Normandy, looking into Montgomery, tanks, and the Battle of the Odon.A Goalhanger Films productionProduced...
Battleground
40 years since the Falklands War, at the time Britian's most significant military campaign since the Second World War, military history Saul...
Königsberg
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...
Churchill’s War Room
73 feet below London - submerged in the fat stench of cigar smoke and adorned with dishevelled tables engraved by Winston Churchill's...
James Bond's War
Bumbling pen pusher or national hero? Al Murray and James Holland are joined by professor Christopher Moran to speak about Ian Fleming's...
Poor Bloody Infantry
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What do we really know of the experience of an infantryman in the Second World War? Al and James look at life in the infantry and explore...
The Mosquito Story - Part 2
James Holland continues his conversation with fighter pilot Des Curtis about his experience with one of the best warbirds of the Second...
The Mosquito Story - Part 1
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...
Naples 44
Explicit content
Al and James look at post war interrogation documents that focus on German training. They also chat about the Norman Lewis book, Naples 44A...
Bacterial Battleground
“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?...
The Plan for Barbarossa: Part Two
“All things being equal, the side with the best morale wins”In the second part of our Barbarossa special, Al Murray and James Holland...
Planning For Barbarossa - Part One
In the first part of a two-part special, Al Murray and James Holland talk about the planning for Operation Barbarossa, the doomed mission...
Family Stories Series 2: Episode 15
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Today’s family stories include the desert experiences of an Eighth Army medic, the Sicilian adventures of a dispatch rider and how wooden...
Chiang Kai-shek’s China
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...
Ukraine 1943
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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...
Family Stories Series 2: Episode 14
This week’s family stories include remembering a Battle of Britain pilot, a chance meeting of two old adversaries and a tale that...
