British Episodes
1 Dunkirk WW2 - Veteran Bill Cheall's story of the beaches, Second W…
One man's nail-biting bid to escape from France in 1940. Learn how Bill Cheall and his comrades of the 6 Green Howards survive the stukas to board a ship to get back to England. "We could see ships out at sea making their way from Dunkirk to England and could also see the dive-bombers after th…
2 North Africa WW2 - The Battle of the Wadi Akarit in Tunisia
Second World War Veteran memoirs of the 1943 desert, WWII. Three veterans' accounts of one battle - WADI AKARIT, North Africa WW2.
3 D-Day - Sgt Brian Moss Royal Engineers WW2
Two gripping veteran accounts of the D-Day landings, 1944. WWII.
4 Wilf Shaw 1 - WW2 army veteran interview
N Africa, Sicily, and D-Day. Wilf awarded the WWII French Legion D'Honneur.
5 Claude Reynolds 1 - Coffee with Claude - Lancaster rear gunner inte…
Memoirs of a Lancaster rear gunner in WWII
8 D-Day WWII poems of D E Gray V.2022.2
Poems by a D-Day veteran WW2
9 Dunkirk Diaries of Major Leslie Petch OBE WWII V.2022
Original war diary discovered by family, WWII
10 Dunkirk ship diaries of Capt Tom Woods OBE, WW2
A dramatic blow by blow account of five deadly days in Dunkirk!
11 Dunkirk little ship, The Bee memoir WW2 by Fred Reynard
Original WWII memoir from Engineer of The Bee, Dunkirk little ship. Mesmerising!
12 Claude Reynolds 2 - WW2 Lancaster veteran interview
A second interview with WW2 RAF Lancaster veteran Claude Reynolds.
13 Blitz bomb disposal memoirs of Sgt Brian Moss, Royal Engineers, WW…
Danger - Unexploded Bomb! WWII London Blitz.
14 The Last Flight of Lancaster Lily Mars, WW2
Tragic tale of an RAF crew & their beloved plane, WWII
15 The WWII Poems of Sapper John Frederick Smith 2022
WWII poetry from 689 Coy the Royal Engineers WW2
16 Gallipoli Part 1. WW1 Memoirs of Sgt Fred Reynard
First hand account of the brutal fighting at Suvla Bay, Aug 15, WWI
17 Gallipoli Part 2. WW1 Memoirs of Sgt Fred Reynard
First hand account of the brutal fighting at Suvla Bay, Aug 15, WW1
20 Dunkirk Little Ship Bee - UNABRIDGED EDITION WWII - Fred Reynard
COMPLETE and Original WWII memoir from Engineer of The Bee small ship
22 Wilf Shaw 2 - WWII army veteran interview
A second coffee with a North Africa, Sicily, and D-Day veteran, WWII
23 Wilf Shaw 3 - WWII army veteran interview
A third coffee with a North Africa, Sicily, and D-Day veteran, WW2
24 Christmas at War Bill Cheall 2020 edition
How the Dunkirk spirit of '40 became the Christmas spirit of ‘45 in WW2
25 Sgt Rufty Hill meets Winston Churchill in WWII
Tragic but poignant tale of five WWII comrades
26 The Zilken Letters. A veteran exposes the army's best kept WWII se…
Dramatic WW2 secrets between two veterans
27 D-Day Veterans remember - Bennett and Cheall, WWII
Two veterans remember two beaches - Juno and Gold WW2
29 Prisoner of War in WWII - Memoir by Brian Asquith
Memoirs of a British POW in WWII Poland, "Long Time, no WC"
30 Queen Mary in WW2
Two WW2 servicemen. Two accounts of the same very special voyage in 1943
32 Women at War 1 - Interview with Anne Cheall
Anne Cheall recalls what it was like being a civilian in WW2
33 Women at War 2 - Wartime Recipes and WRENS
Culinary survival skills and a Women's Royal Naval Service morse coding memoir
34 Women at War 3 - Wartime Holiday memoir by Anne Cheall
Wartime Holidays - Anne Cheall visits Wales in WWII
35 Freddie Linacre WW2 veteran interview
A WWII infantry veteran recounts his desert & POW experiences
36 WW2 Tank Captain Stanley Perry PART ONE - Interview
Interview with WWII Normandy tank commander PART ONE. Not to be missed!
37 WW2 Tank Captain Stanley Perry PART TWO - Interview
Interview with WWII tank commander PART TWO
38 Sergeant Eion McEwan -5th Scottish Para WWII memoir
Dramatic Diary from WW2 France, Italy, Greece, Singapore and Indonesia
39 Stan Perry Listener Feedback and WW2 Quiz
Listener Feedback on episodes 37-38 plus end of year WWII quiz!
40 Four Brits & a Frenchman at Dunkirk plus Gallipoli - memoirs
Great revelations about Dunkirk war heroes. How one man's sacrifice saved the lives of possibly thousands of others.
41 Wilf Shaw 4 - A last coffee - WW2 history - Interview
My final chat with WWII veteran the late Wilf Shaw
42 D-Day 75 - Landing Craft Tank in WWII - Eric Clark D-Day veteran m…
Commemorative episode for 75th anniversary of D-Day landings June 1944
43 Canadian Seaman Ray Fitchett POW and HMS Exeter - spoken memoir
POW in Japan, WWII
44 Sidney Stevens Lancaster Pilot WW2 - Interview
Interview with WW2 Lancaster pilot
45 Gold Beach Normandy trip WW2
Stories behind the sights at Gold beach & Omaha, WWII
46 Through German Eyes in the Second World War
A selection of stories dedicated to the German side of the second world war.
47 D-Day Through German Eyes Part Two
A chapter from the new book, D-Day Through German Eyes, by J Trigg.
48 Captain H E Hovell - First World War
Memoir from a Norfolk, UK, man who fought in both World Wars
49 Christmas at War 2019 Second World War
War Poetry 3 and seasonal heartwarming tales.
53 Sniper Anthology, Second World War
WW2 Sniper stories at their best
54 Okinawa - The Last Great Battle of the Second World War, book pass…
Saul David's new book, Crucible of Hell.
55 Les Rutherford interview - Lancaster bomb aimer
Dunkirk escapee and Stalag Luft 3 POW
61 Churchill's Hellraisers preview - Damien Lewis - Part 1
Sneak preview of Damien Lewis's latest blockbuster! A secret mission to storm a forbidden Nazi fortress.in Italy.