John Frost

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3,379 appearances 10 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 5d ago

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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk · The Most Important Date Of The Second World War · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

But it's it's it's been absolutely amazing.

And actually, I'm sort of a bit ashamed to say I've done more work on Dunkirk, the actual evacuation, than I've ever done before.

And I've got a slightly different picture.

I you know, I was di I was a bit down on the little boats, wasn't I?

Do you remember when we were doing the podcast?

Yeah, you were, you were, Jim.

You said it wasn't really um But it wasn't, but but but they were brilliant and what they did they they solved a problem, which was Yeah.

You still have to pull people off the beaches.

You can't put everyone off the mole.

No.

You got but you know, because the beach is long, it's ten miles long, and you have to do it.

And the only way to do that is to smother the beaches with lots of little boats, because otherwise it just takes too long.

You can't have these destroyers of their little their two whalers going out.

It just doesn't work.

And there's hundreds of cock-ups.

There's hundreds of moments where there's this sort of comms problem and and they're saying, Whatever you do, don't come to the don't come to the port because you know there's wrecks in the thing and it's getting hit and you know there's a there's a

And then tenant comes back and go goes, whatever you do, just send lots and lots of ships to the mole because it's now clear, it's all absolutely fine.

But they don't get it.

So they then send lots of ships over, but they come off the beaches not to the thing.

So there's a whole load of men waiting.

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