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The latest news you can use from Travel Writers Radio for April 25, 2018 produced by the members of PALAT, the Professional Association of Lifestyle and Travel Writers. Email: info@travelwritersradio.com

In this final segment of the interview Graeme Kemlo conducts with David Levell we hear how, having rescued a woman from almost certain execvution in a fort where she was imprisoned, Brian Walpole is threatened with a Court Martial for shooting at Japanese soldiers who falsely claimed to be civilians. Photo by Graeme Kemlo: Brian Walpole and Iban warrior in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia in 2004.

In Part 2 of his conversation with David Levell, who collaborated with Brian Walpole on his book, "My War - Life is for Living". Graeme Kemlo recalls his own conversation with Brian Walpole about a one-man submarine used in the Sarawak campaign.

In part 1 of In this special Anzac Day edition of Travel Writers Radio, journalist David Levell talks about Z Special Forces soldier Brian Walpole who fought behind enemy lines alongside the feared Sarawak Iban headhunters. Graeme Kemlo, who interviews David, also spent time with Brian Walpole, returning with him to Sarawak in 2004. Photo: Brian Walpole, Daisy Levell and David Levell in 2008.

Graeme Kemlo introduces a special show in recognition of Anzac Day, one of the most important national days of remembrance in Australian military history. We focus on one extraordinary soldier, Brian Walpole who bravely waged his war behind Japanese lines with a small band of Iban headhunters during the occupation of Sarawak in 1943 to 1945. He wrote a gripping account of this in "My War - Life is for Living" with journalist David Levell detailing his life as a member of Australia's elite Z Speial unit.