Al Murray

5th of April, 1940.

Right, okay.

Just before the balloon goes up.

Right, okay.

So, and that's what we're here to talk about.

That's what we're here to talk about.

The rising balloon in Norway.

Welcome to We Have Ways of Making You Talk with me, Al Murray, and James Holland.

Your second World War podcast.

Of choice.

Thanks for joining us.

Now, we're looking at a part of the war that we've not actually talked about at all on the podcast.

In seven years of War Waffle, we haven't gone anywhere near this.

So we're basically just going to ignore it.

fair enough i completely understand um you know i can barely keep it together when things are going wobbly jim this is one of the great actually one of the great naval encounters of the second world war it is and consequential and consequential and defining um and uh for those who've listened to recent podcasts where we've talked about the battle of the atlantic in uh in 1940 41 42 and then the

the hunt for the Bismarck and then the Channel Dash.

Actually, this is the battle that sets the scene for all of those events.

Yep.

Certainly in terms of, well, let's be blunt, the Royal Navy's dominance.

Well, exactly.