Lest We Forget Podcast

04/08/2024

Legasee (The Veterans' Voice)
This is the last episode (12) of this series and I talk to the founder of Legasee, an organisation that films and archives interviews with British military veterans....

In the last episode of the current series I talk to the founder of Legasee, an organisation that films and archives interviews with British military veterans from the Second World War to the present day...Legasee website link:  http://www.leg...

19/06/2024

Episode 11 is out on Sunday 23rd June:

Jackie Moggridge: Trailblazing Aviatrix and World War Two Pilot

Jackie Moggridge learnt to fly at 15, flew over 1500 aircraft during the war and went on to become a successful commercial pilot. This is her story...

15/06/2024

Episode 10 is out this Sunday and is the story of Joseph R Beyrle, a US paratrooper who fought in Normandy, became a prisoner of war and then after escaping, fought with the Red Army on the Eastern Front...

06/06/2024

Episode 9: Tom Dobney, the 15 year old World War Two RAF pilot is out on Sunday 9th June.

Lying about your age to enlist in time of war was not unusual, but to go on and pilot an aircraft on bombing missions almost beggars belief. Listen to Tom Dobney's incredible story....

31/05/2024

On Sunday 2nd June Episode 8 is released:

Pegasus Bridge: The First Action of D Day

As we approach the 80th Anniversary of D-Day, this is the often overlooked story of the first action of that day, the 6th June 1944.

26/05/2024

Episode 7: The Murder of Captain Fryatt

In 1916 a British Merchant Steam Ship's Captain tried to avoid being captured by a German U-boat whilst in the North Sea. He succeeded but paid the ultimate price a year later. This is his story....

14/05/2024

The 'King' of Lampedusa is episode 6 of the podcast and is available on Sunday 19th May.

In June 1943, a British RAF pilot was forced to land on the Italian island of Lampedusa. There he encountered a garrison of over 4,000 Italian soldiers. What happened next was later turned into a play and musical …..

11/05/2024

"The Hundred Years War" is episode 5 of series 2 and is available on Sunday 12th May.

A medieval conflict that gave us some of Shakespeare's greatest calls to arms, the origin of our patron saint's day, the story of Joan of Arc and the dominance of an English weapon, the Longbow.

01/05/2024

Series 2, Episode 4: Stalag Luft III will be available on Sunday 5th May

Stalag Luft III was the POW camp from which the 'Great Escape' took place, but it was also the scene of other escapes and a temporary home for some interesting characters...

25/04/2024

Series 2, Episode 3: Barney Hines the 'Souvenir King' is out on Sunday 28th April...

In 1917 a photograph of this Australian soldier taken on the Western Front created the legend that is Barney Hines. A fearless soldier on the battlefield but away from it he was almost impossible to manage and in civilian life he struggled to conform. This is his incredible story...

16/04/2024

Series 2, Episode 2: RAF fighter pilot 'Jas' Storrar

'Jas' Storrar lied about his age and joined the RAF aged 17 in early 1939. By the age of 18 he had shot down German aircraft over northern France during the retreat to Dunkirk and fought in the Battle of Britain. He went on to fly in North Africa during the desert campaign and later in northern Europe in the final year of the war. This is his story....

13/04/2024

Series 2, Episode 1 - The Real Heroes of Rorke's Drift - The defence of the British Army Garrison at Rorke's Drift during the Anglo Zulu war is one of the greatest defences in military history, but have some of the heroes been forgotten or simply misrepresented, particularly when compared to the 1964 film Zulu ?

Plan of the hospital building