World War Two history Podcast
D Day, traitors and evacuees
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The Chindits
Wed 3 Sep 2025
The Chindits, an unconventional special force was formed during World War Two
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Nagasaki bomb
Mon 4 Aug 2025
On 9 August 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan
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World War Two’s Rome escape line
Mon 9 Jun 2025
How an Irish priest saved thousands of allied prisoners of war and Jews in Rome in WW2
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Exercise Tiger: Disastrous D-Day rehearsal
Sun 27 Apr 2025
In April 1944, a German fleet sank two allied ships. Around 749 US servicemen died.
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'I wrote Schindler's List'
Thu 16 Jan 2025
Thomas Keneally stumbled across the story of Oskar Schindler while buying a briefcase
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The mystery of Raoul Wallenberg
Thu 9 Jan 2025
The Swedish diplomat saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War Two
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The Purple Heart Warriors
Wed 11 Dec 2024
In WW2, a Japanese American troop was one of the most decorated army units in US history
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The woman who saved 2,500 children from the Warsaw ghetto
Thu 7 Nov 2024
Polish aid worker Irena Sendler saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto in WW2
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Saving lives on D-Day
Thu 6 Jun 2024
Charles Norman Shay was honoured for saving men from drowning on Omaha Beach on D-Day
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The woman whose weather report changed the date of D-Day
Wed 5 Jun 2024
Maureen Flavin’s weather report forecast a storm and changed the course of WW2 history
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The 'comfort women' of World War Two
Wed 20 Mar 2024
Hundreds of thousands of Asian women were forced into sex slavery in the 1930s and 1940s
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The last eruption of Mount Vesuvius
Fri 15 Mar 2024
Vesuvius is famous for burying Pompeii but it last erupted in 1944, during World War II.
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French child evacuees of World War Two
Tue 5 Mar 2024
In World War Two, tens of thousands of children left Paris to escape the threat of bombs
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The WW2 escape line that fooled the Nazis
Mon 12 Feb 2024
In 1940 a rescue operation helped Allied servicemen escape from Nazi-occupied France
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Wang Jingwei: China’s traitor or protector?
Wed 24 Jan 2024
The national hero was branded a traitor for collaborating with Japan during World War Two
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Axis Sally: World War II traitor who broadcast for the Nazis
Tue 23 Jan 2024
Mildred Gillars became the first woman in American history to be convicted of treason.
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Vidkun Quisling: Norway's traitor
Mon 22 Jan 2024
In 1939, Vidkun Quisling asked Hitler to invade Norway.
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Japan surrenders in China
Wed 19 Jul 2023
The signing of the Japanese surrender documents at the Forbidden City in Beijing in 1945.
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Lee Miller in Hitler's bath
Mon 12 Jun 2023
In 1945 the war correspondent Lee Miller was photographed in Adolf Hitler's bath
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Last communist march before Hitler
Thu 8 Jun 2023
On 25 January 1933 the last legal communist march was held in Berlin
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The Dambusters
Wed 17 May 2023
Eighty years ago a daring raid destroyed dams in Germany's Ruhr Valley
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German child evacuees of World War Two
Tue 16 May 2023
Thousands of German children during World War Two were sent to camps in the countryside
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World War II victory in North Africa
Fri 12 May 2023
It is 80 years since the Allies in World War II declared victory in North Africa
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Warsaw Ghetto uprising
Thu 11 May 2023
In May 1943, the uprising in the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw in Poland came to an end
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Pink Triangles: Gay men in Nazi concentration camps
Tue 28 Feb 2023
In 2009, Rudolf Brazda returned to the former concentration camp he was in for being gay
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Families interned in WW2 China
Thu 23 Feb 2023
A first-hand account of being sent to a Japanese internment camp in Shanghai as a child
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World War Two child evacuees in Britain
Tue 20 Sep 2022
The thousands of children moved out of UK cities away from the risk of German bombs
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Shanghai at War
Thu 19 May 2022
A first-hand account of living through the Japanese occupation in the 1930s and 40s
