British Episodes
62 Churchill's Hellraisers by Damien Lewis PART 2
Sneak preview of Damien Lewis's latest blockbuster, contd.
63 Jean Lindsay, Child of the Second World War
Zeppelins, Doodlebugs and Meeting Americans
70 LCpl Jack Betley WWII comrade
The remarkable discovery of one man's long lost story.
74 Coffee with Ken Cooke D-Day veteran Part 1
Green Howards, D-Day, Belgium, Germany - WWII
75 Coffee with Ken Cooke D-Day veteran Part 2
PART TWO. Green Howards, Belgium, Germany - WWII
80 Ukraine 2022 Appeal, & Dutch Hunger Winter
Refugee stories from WW2 and the Dutch Hunger Winter
85 Bill Turner POW and the Cockleshell Heroes WW2
WW2 POW story plus a daring Royal Marine raid!
89 Alf Blackburn’s war memoirs Part 1, WWII
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.
90 Alf Blackburn’s war memoirs Part 2, WW2
Sicily and D-Day with Green Howards and Durham Light Infantry
91 Kisses on a Postcard - child evacuees - interview with Dominic Fri…
A glorious musical of British evacuee children meeting US GI's & much more!
92 The 82nd airborne Part 1, letters from Sicily
Plus The Soldiers Charity & more from WW2
93 The 82nd airborne Part 2 letters from Sicily and Italy WW2
Plus: Green Howards in Sicily plus interview with veteran Ken Cooke
94 Dunkirk Special PART ONE - Bob Metcalfe British Canadian, Green Ho…
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...
95 Dunkirk Special PART TWO Bob Metcalfe WW2 memoirs
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...
96 Christmas at War Around The World with the V1 - 2023
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.
100 D-Day 80th anniversary special – Gold, Omaha and more
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 -...
124 (Pt 1) Britain's Darkest WW2 Newspaper Headlines 1940 PART ONE
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...
125 (Pt 2) Britain's Darkest WW2 Newspaper Headlines 1940 PART TWO
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...