James Holland

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22,142 appearances 48 recordings 7 series first heard May 2025 last heard 2d ago

James Holland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk · Stalingrad Of The Adriatic: The Sangro (Part 1) · 23 Sep 2026 podcast

Yeah, exactly. voice-verified

And if you go to if you go to Tuscany in the summer or Italy in the summer, the rivers are the rivers are creeks at best, aren't they? voice-verified

But as you say, it's been raining and I quite like the way you I've I've never heard it it's raining half of the bloody time articulated thirty seconds out of sixty seconds. voice-verified

I've never heard it I've never heard it articulated like that, Jim, before. voice-verified

But I like it, right? voice-verified

It's raining half the time. voice-verified

So these rivers are in in rude flood, aren't they? voice-verified

Is is the thing. voice-verified

So they're bigger, bigger voice-verified

At bigger obstacles than they otherwise might be. voice-verified

They've actually done pretty well. voice-verified

Um they've gone quite quickly, um, Eighth Army, giv given given in fact that you know they're characterized as being led by someone who's cautious and the eighth army are ponderous and slow and all sorts. voice-verified

Actually, they've made really, really rapid progress up to this point. voice-verified

Um, largely because the Germans are bugged off. voice-verified

The challenges are that there are fewer roads and you're mechanised. voice-verified

So um and you've got big sappering tasks to organise. voice-verified

So in terms of just being the traffic cop that makes sure that the bridging stuff gets through and you don't you know, th I mean the the the logistical um problems and obviously the Allied mechanised way of doing war, that the you know, the logistic problem the logistic issues are priced in. voice-verified

That's the way you're gonna do it. voice-verified

So voice-verified

That's how your army is built. voice-verified

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