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The Ivan Berg Memoir podcast A podcast spanning the five decades from the outbreak of WW2 in 1939

EPISODE 1

Ivan Berg - Podcast Memoir Part 1: 1939-1945 - The Blitz, Doodlebugs and V-2 Rockets

First part of memoir spanning five decades. Ivan Berg's wartime memories 1939-1945. Evacuee, back in London for the Blitz - then sent away again, with father at war, mother in hospital, to a Kindertransport Hostel. #theblitz #evacuation #kindsertransport #ww2 #worldwar2 #londonblitz #1939 #bipolar #evacuee #v1 #flyingbomb #v2rocket #ballisticmissile

24 min
EPISODE 2

Ivan Berg - Podcast Memoir Part 2: 1945-1953

1945-1953. Peacetime. Life in a prefab, arrival of a baby brother, getting into Grammar School ... and bunking off. First business - as a teenage entrepreneur, and first, short-lived, jobs.

22 min
EPISODE 3

Ivan Berg - Podcast Memoir Part 3: 1953

1953 continued : more jobs, and Ivan signs up for sea school aged 16 - dreaming of exotic foreign travel. His parents are not happy.

20 min
EPISODE 4

Ivan Berg - Podcast Memoir Part 4: 1953 continued

Ivan starts work as a saloon boy and steward, sailing to South Africa. Hard work, the waiter known as Mabel, and drag shows in the crew bar.

21 min
EPISODE 5

Ivan Berg - Podcast Memoir Part 5

Ivan sails to South Africa and South America ... a world away from Hackney and Austerity. There's an unfortunate incident involving Crepes Suzette.. and he meets "Esmerelda" a beautiful, rich young Brazilian girl ...

22 min
EPISODE 6

Ivan Berg - Podcast Memoir Part 6

Adventures in South America: learning to ride a horse gaucho style ...and a slightly awkward visit to a bordello. Ivan is 18, gets his rating, a pay rise, a job on the Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth and his first trip to New York ...

23 min
EPISODE 7

Ivan Berg - Podcast Memoir Part 7

The perks of Cunard. Ivan learns how to make serious money in tips - especially from first class American passengers. Now smart in Brooks Brothers style suits, he has to fight off a 'friend' of his gay uncle Monty in New York. London on leave is more promising - he meets writers and composers just starting out, amongst them Lionel Bart, who develops a taste for Ivan's mothers's Friday night chicken soup.

22 min
EPISODE 8

Ivan Berg Podcast Memoir - Part 8: The Caribbean Cruises

Ivan settles in to the Caribbean cruises: picking up passengers in New York and sailing to the Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, Curaçao, Jamaica, Antigua, Martinique, Barbados and St Thomas. American passengers become friends, hosting him in their mansion in Great Neck LI, inviting him to glamorous parties. And he meets cheerful cockney and fellow crewman Tommy Hicks - helps him get a cushier job on board. #SirThomasHicksOBE

24 min

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The Ivan Berg Memoir podcast A podcast spanning the five decades from the outbreak of WW2 in 1939

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Ivan Berg
Episodes

19
Seasons

1
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Clean
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Out of the Cardboard Suitcase

Out of the Cardboard Suitcase

Ivan Berg - Podcast Memoir Part 1: 1939-1945 - The Blitz, Doodlebugs and V-2 Rockets

Ivan Berg - Podcast Memoir Part 2: 1945-1953

Ivan Berg - Podcast Memoir Part 3: 1953

Ivan Berg - Podcast Memoir Part 4: 1953 continued

Ivan Berg - Podcast Memoir Part 5

Ivan Berg - Podcast Memoir Part 6

Ivan Berg - Podcast Memoir Part 7

Ivan Berg Podcast Memoir - Part 8: The Caribbean Cruises

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