John Frost
speaker
3,379 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6d ago
John Frost’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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got that voice in this series because I, you know, I I interviewed him twenty five years ago, but I I remember that so well.
Yeah.
About his mum going grey and not belonging and no one to talk to and no one preparing him for it.
Yeah.
But but hearing it again, I mean Jesus.
It's it's a bit that no one ever thinks about, isn't it?
yeah, yeah.
It's this this idea that you're coming back from a dream and you're coming back to reality, but the reality is so disappointing.
It's just it's just awful.
It's just it's just that despair that he's describing.
He you know, whate whatever it was, you know, when I met him he was eighty.
It's so raw still, isn't it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean that's the thing, it's just amazing.
Yeah.
Anyway, we'll talk we're we should start not by by the sort of chronological details of what what he what he did in we're still in North Africa, by the way.
Um we got him back to the Alamein line, hadn't we?
Got him through the first battle of Alamein now, last episode.
But but but I thought it's interesting some of the some of the kind of m broader stuff he talked about was really interesting, and this was when blokes were writing letters to the Manchester Evening News and sending lonely heart letters.
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