Interviews Episodes

July 9, 2016

4 Wilf Shaw 1 - WW2 army veteran interview

N Africa, Sicily, and D-Day. Wilf awarded the WWII French Legion D'Honneur.

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April 11, 2017

12 Claude Reynolds 2 - WW2 Lancaster veteran interview

A second interview with WW2 RAF Lancaster veteran Claude Reynolds.

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Nov. 11, 2017

21 Angus Wallace of the WW2 Podcast interviews Paul Cheall

Paul is son of veteran Bill Cheall, Fighting Through from Dunkirk to Hamburg

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Nov. 26, 2017

22 Wilf Shaw 2 - WWII army veteran interview

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

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Nov. 30, 2017

23 Wilf Shaw 3 - WWII army veteran interview

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

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March 31, 2018

28 Wilf Shaw 5 - RIP Tribute

A celebratory farewell to a WW2 hero

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June 24, 2018

31 Child of War - An interview with Volker Wehrum, WW2

Volker shares many dramatic stories about his German father and family in WWII

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July 20, 2018

32 Women at War 1 - Interview with Anne Cheall

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

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Aug. 29, 2018

33 Women at War 2 - Wartime Recipes and WRENS

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

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Sept. 20, 2018

35 Freddie Linacre WW2 veteran interview

A WWII infantry veteran recounts his desert & POW experiences

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Oct. 7, 2018

36 WW2 Tank Captain Stanley Perry PART ONE - Interview

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

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Oct. 7, 2018

37 WW2 Tank Captain Stanley Perry PART TWO - Interview

Interview with WWII tank commander PART TWO

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Dec. 23, 2018

39 Stan Perry Listener Feedback and WW2 Quiz

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

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April 19, 2019

41 Wilf Shaw 4 - A last coffee - WW2 history - Interview

My final chat with WWII veteran the late Wilf Shaw

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June 30, 2019

44 Sidney Stevens Lancaster Pilot WW2 - Interview

Interview with WW2 Lancaster pilot

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May 12, 2020

55 Les Rutherford interview - Lancaster bomb aimer

Dunkirk escapee and Stalag Luft 3 POW

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Nov. 11, 2020

63 Jean Lindsay, Child of the Second World War

Zeppelins, Doodlebugs and Meeting Americans

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May 26, 2021

69 German Boy Soldier Willi Langbein WW2

Save the Last Bullet by Heidi Langbein-Allen. The biography of a 13 year old who had his youth cruelly stolen by the Nazis during six years of WW2, from witnessing Jewish persecution to hand-to-hand fighting on the front line.

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Nov. 16, 2021

74 Coffee with Ken Cooke D-Day veteran Part 1

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

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Jan. 3, 2022

77 The Able Queen, by Rainy Hovarth

Tales of an Indiana Hump Pilot Lost in the Himalayas - China

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April 24, 2022

81 Coffee with Cpl Les Cook Part 1

Australian Corporal Les Cook, WW2 Kokoda trail, New Guinea

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April 27, 2022

82 Coffee with Cpl Leslie Cook Part 2

Part 2 of Australian Les Cook, WW2 Kokoda trail, New Guinea

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March 12, 2023

91 Kisses on a Postcard - child evacuees - interview with Dominic Fri…

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

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July 31, 2023

92 The 82nd airborne Part 1, letters from Sicily

Plus The Soldiers Charity & more from WW2

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Aug. 7, 2023

93 The 82nd airborne Part 2 letters from Sicily and Italy WW2

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

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