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We Have Ways of Making You Talk Goalhanger Podcasts
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Achtung! Achtung!
Comedian Al Murray and historian James Holland discuss all matters Second World War.
We Have Ways of Making You Talk is a bi-weekly show exploring the war in close up. James and Al have a stunning knowledge of their subject, but don't expect a linear narrative. The boys love a tangent and a forgotten tale.
We Have Ways of Making You Talk roams down forgotten front lines, casts new villains and makes the case for unlikely heroes.
Send questions to James and Al via Twitter using #WeHaveWays or by email to wehavewayspodcast@gmail.com
Battle stations!
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June 1943
Strikes in the US, funerals in Japan and the Pope calling for peace. Al Murray and James Holland search the records to find out exactly what was happening this week 80 years ago.
A Goalhanger Films production
Produced by Harry Lineker
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
Twitter: #WeHaveWays @WeHaveWaysPod
Website: www.wehavewayspod.com
Email: wehavewayspodcast@gmail.com
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Between The Lines - Ep 9
Welcome along to a new episode of our new, We Have Ways series - Between the Lines.
Between The Lines is a We Have Ways production
Julia ‘Ma’ Blyth is read by Ruth Sillers
David Blyth is read by Matthew Malthouse
Oscar Griswold is read by Michael Lyons
Chester Hansen is read by Lance Fuller
Vere Hodgson is read by Rachel Holland
Heinz Knoke is read by Lukas Wechsler
Bertie Packer is read by Paul Waggott
Willhelm Mauss is read by Alex Figuierdo
Jack Ward is read by Adam Jarrell
Harry Wilson is read by Joel Emery
Narration is by James Holland and Al Murray
Editing by Jon Gill and Joey McCarthy
Written and produced by Merryn Walters
The executive producer is Tony Pastor
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The Birth of the SAS
Shrouded in mystery and classified papers, the origins of the SAS during the Second World War are as shadowy as the operations they took part in.
James Holland speaks to ex-SAS Officer Tom Petch about the birth of the Special Forces, especially the fascinating figure of Dudley Clarke.
A Goalhanger Films Production
Produced by Joey McCarthy
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
Twitter: #WeHaveWays @WeHaveWaysPod
Website: wehavewayspod.com
Email: wehavewayspodcast@gmail.com
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Operation Strike
As Al Murray and James Holland conclude their retelling of the North African campaign, they delve deeper into Operation Strike.
A Goalhanger Films Production
Produced by Joey McCarthy
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
Twitter: #WeHaveWays @WeHaveWaysPod
Website: wehavewayspod.com
Email: wehavewayspodcast@gmail.com
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Between The Lines - Ep 8
Welcome along to a new episode of our new, We Have Ways series - Between the Lines.
Between The Lines is a We Have Ways production
Julia ‘Ma’ Blyth is read by Ruth Sillers
David Blyth is read by Matthew Malthouse
Oscar Griswold is read by Michael Lyons
Chester Hansen is read by Lance Fuller
Vere Hodgson is read by Rachel Holland
Heinz Knoke is read by Lukas Wechsler
Bertie Packer is read by Paul Waggott
Willhelm Mauss is read by Alex Figuierdo
Jack Ward is read by Adam Jarrell
Harry Wilson is read by Joel Emery
Narration is by James Holland and Al Murray
Editing by Jon Gill and Joey McCarthy
Written and produced by Merryn Walters
The executive producer is Tony Pastor
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Talking War Movies
Al Murray and James Holland are joined by the Private Eye editor Ian Hislop, and cartoonist Nick Newman to talk about their favourite Second World War films.
They reminisce about their first time watching A Bridge Too Far, the historical innacuracies of Where Eagles Dare and the human aspect of the Dam Busters.
A Goalhanger Films production
Produced by Harry Lineker
Exec Producer: Tony Pastor
Twitter: #WeHaveWays @WeHaveWaysPod
Website: www.wehavewayspod.com
Email: wehavewayspodcast@gmail.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Customer Reviews
Incredible
The range and detail of this show is fantastic. Messers Murray and Holland bounce off each other adding facts and experiences and just makes the whole thing feel like a live history debate between two folks who are clearly experts.
It’s simply fascinating.
If you find the topic of WW2 interesting, either as a casual observer or a history buff then this is compulsory listening..
War Films
Thank you so much for this podcast. It brought back so many happy memories of a childhood where every Sunday film on the BBC appears to have been a black and white war epic.
I remember my father -a rear gunner in Lancs chuckling in the Battle of Britain in the scene where Robert Shaw as the roll neck sweater wearing squadron leader challenges an RAF Police corporal escorting a Luftwaffe bomber crew who have been shot down after having just devasted his airfield.
“Corporal ! Where are you taking those vultures ?! “
The corporal (snapping to attention) :
“Officers to the officers mess and the NCO’s to the guardhouse, sir !”
“They made this mess ! Get ‘em to clear it up!”
The Corporal (shocked at this breach of the Geneva Convention :
“The officers too sir ?!”
“Give ‘em a bloody shovel!”
One point you omitted -or I missed. The reason that so many of those classic British war films looked so right is that so many of the stars in them had actually served. They knew how to come to attention. How to march. How to salute (and when).
All the minutiae of military life that is so very difficult to authentically replicate unless you’ve actually done it.
Alec Guinness, Kenneth More, Laurence Olivier and (post war) Sean Connery had all been in the Navy. Richard Burton, Richard Attenborough had been in the RAF. Jack Hawkins, Richard Todd (a PARA who dropped on D-Day) and David Niven (returning) to the Army.
There is that closing scene in The Dambusters where Richard Todd in shirt sleeves and Mae West consoles Barnes Wallis about the Butchers Bill for the raid. He then turns to walk to his office to write the inevitable leters to families. As he does so an airman approaches and both officer and airman automatically march to attention, the airman saluting and Todd-as-Gibson returning it perfectly.
That simple authentic exchange is very difficult to replicate now.
I can only think of Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan as recent productions where they successfully employed ex-military to “boot camp” actors into behaving like they are in the services.
Thank you for the series. I find them highly entertaining.
PS: The pedant in me feels compelled to point out that Alec Guinesss wasn’t bullying a subaltern in “Tunes of Glory” but his own replacement Colonel - a well connected but ineffectual Desk Man as oppose to Jock Sinclair’s hard drinking Warfighter
Just sayin’
love the pod (mostly)
its a fascinating Pod I rarely find a topic that isnt fascinating, but my word, James Holland doesnt half go on. When they have an expert on, its especially irritating as he dominates the discussion. I find myself checking out halfway through a programme that I'm really interested in because he just keeps on, and on and on....