James Holland
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22,142 appearances
48 recordings
7 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 5d ago
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ties in with I've just been to the Edinburgh fringe and there was someone there who who'd found her great grandfather's war diary or his diary just his diary and had done a little play about about Operation Market Garden, which is the seventeenth of September, Jim, which is when this episode's going out.
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Now, although
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Um I know if you're a regular listener you're probably tired of hearing this from hearing about this movie.
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So I wanted to actually say, James
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That the seventeenth of September in the Second World War
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I think has the most consequential event happen on it.
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The seventeenth, but it's not in nineteen forty four.
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It's in nineteen forty.
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It's no, it's nineteen thirty nine.
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It's the Soviets rolling into Poland without declaring war.
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I thought you were going
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Nah no no no no because there'd be no Operation Sea Line to call off if the Soviet Because there's the non-aggression pact is one thing, right?
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But the Soviets then actually actively following up on it and invading Poland.
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Okay, so you're not you're not you're not just saying first of September would be
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of it.
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No, I'm saying seventeenth of September.
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most consequential day of the whole Second World War is the day it begins.
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No, no, no, no.
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No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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