British Episodes

Britain's Darkest WW2 Newspaper Headlines 1940 PART TWO Part Two of a Stop Press Party as we read through more fascinating newspaper headlines of Second World War 1940 - the London Blitz, Battle of Britain, bombers, blimps a...

Part One of a Stop Press Party as we read through the exciting newspaper headlines of Second World War 1940 - the London Blitz, Battle of Britain, bombers, blimps and the silly adverts. Hear about all the war time drama as i...

A special episode to commemorate the events of D-Day 6 June 44. The 80th anniversary. Four veteran accounts of the landings. D-Day Episodes mentioned: Bill Cheall: Episode 3 William Hershel Nelson: Episode 99  Eric Clarke: Episode 42 D-Day 75 -...

Christmas at war, with more seasonal tales, including a special feature on Christmas around the globe during WW2.  Specials in this episode :German Boy Soldier's Christmas Shoes V1 Doodlebug bombs over Manchester.

PART TWO Featuring No time for dreams: a soldier’s six-year second world war journey through World War II.  By Robert W. Metcalfe, 4th Green Howards. PLUS: What someone's father found in the jungle AFTER the war. Who wrote to Bob Metcalfe upon publication of...

Featuring No time for dreams: a soldier’s six-year journey through World War II.  By Robert W. Metcalfe, 4th Green Howards Bob Metcalf enlisted in the fourth battalion, the Green Howards in December 1935. He saw action in France in 1940, where...

Plus: Green Howards in Sicily plus interview with veteran Ken Cooke

Plus The Soldiers Charity & more from WW2

A glorious musical of British evacuee children meeting US GI's & much more!

Sicily and D-Day with Green Howards and Durham Light Infantry

Part 1 of a classic tale of British infantry adventure in WW2. How the Fighting Through WW2 memoirs podcast put the families of two war comrades in touch with each other. Sicily and D-Day campaigns featured.

WW2 POW story plus a daring Royal Marine raid!

Refugee stories from WW2 and the Dutch Hunger Winter

PART TWO. Green Howards, Belgium, Germany - WWII

Green Howards, D-Day, Belgium, Germany - WWII

The remarkable discovery of one man's long lost story.

Zeppelins, Doodlebugs and Meeting Americans

Sneak preview of Damien Lewis's latest blockbuster, contd.

Sneak preview of Damien Lewis's latest blockbuster! A secret mission to storm a forbidden Nazi fortress.in Italy.

Dunkirk escapee and Stalag Luft 3 POW

Saul David's new book, Crucible of Hell.

WW2 Sniper stories at their best

Special bonus episode

War Poetry 3 and seasonal heartwarming tales.

Memoir from a Norfolk, UK, man who fought in both World Wars

A chapter from the new book, D-Day Through German Eyes, by J Trigg.

A selection of stories dedicated to the German side of the second world war.

Stories behind the sights at Gold beach & Omaha, WWII

Interview with WW2 Lancaster pilot

POW in Japan, WWII

Commemorative episode for 75th anniversary of D-Day landings June 1944

My final chat with WWII veteran the late Wilf Shaw

Great revelations about Dunkirk war heroes. How one man's sacrifice saved the lives of possibly thousands of others.

Listener Feedback on episodes 37-38 plus end of year WWII quiz!

Dramatic Diary from WW2 France, Italy, Greece, Singapore and Indonesia

Interview with WWII tank commander PART TWO

Interview with WWII Normandy tank commander PART ONE. Not to be missed!

A WWII infantry veteran recounts his desert & POW experiences

Wartime Holidays - Anne Cheall visits Wales in WWII

Culinary survival skills and a Women's Royal Naval Service morse coding memoir

Anne Cheall recalls what it was like being a civilian in WW2

Two WW2 servicemen. Two accounts of the same very special voyage in 1943

Memoirs of a British POW in WWII Poland, "Long Time, no WC"

A celebratory farewell to a WW2 hero

Two veterans remember two beaches - Juno and Gold WW2

Dramatic WW2 secrets between two veterans

Tragic but poignant tale of five WWII comrades

How the Dunkirk spirit of '40 became the Christmas spirit of ‘45 in WW2

A third coffee with a North Africa, Sicily, and D-Day veteran, WW2

A second coffee with a North Africa, Sicily, and D-Day veteran, WWII