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Murder on the Homefront

05 LAST The Horsham Trunk Murder 20010303 20031220 By Michael Crompton.
Adapted from the book by Molly Lefebure.
The fifth episode continues the story of a courageous young woman working as an assistant to the internationally renowned Home Office pathologist, Mr Hardcastle, during the dark days of 1942 in wartime LONDON.
Based on the true story of Molly Lefebure, as described in her book, Murder On The Home Front.
The final story in this series is set at CHRISTMAS, but there's no respite for Molly and Hardcastle in their quest to solve the next grisly murder.
Hardcastle has been seriously injured in a bombing raid and is travelling to his brother's home to convalesce when he is asked to investigate the gruesome discovery of a body in a trunk at the left luggage office at Horsham train station.
The murder has remarkable similarities to an infamous murder case, which ultimately destroyed the reputation of Hardcastle's predecessor, Wilkinson.
Hardcastle is exhausted from the pressures of work and the emotional and physical strain of his bomb-blast injuries and Molly is furious that he is working when he should be resting but is someone deliberately taunting them? Molly....Emily Bruni Hardcastle....Whately McNab....Jonathan Hackett Mrs B....Mary McLeod Chief Inspector Collins....Brian Protheroe.
    19980704 19990522 By Michael Crompton, adapted from the book by Molly Lefebure.
It is 1941, and a chance encounter in a dancehall leads Molly to romance, murder and a new career.
With Emily Bruni, Bob Cryer and James Hazeldine.
Director John Dove.

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Murder on the Homefront

04 The Secret Agent 20010224 20031213 In early 1940s LONDON, forensics experts Molly and Hardcastle become involved with some apparently connected killings.
With Kevin Whately, Emily Bruni, Mary MacLeod and Jonathan Hackett.
Directed by John Dove.

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Murder on the Homefront

03 The Wigwam Murder 20000708 20031206 Spring, 1942.
Molly continues her work as assistant to the Home Office pathologist Hardcastle.
The stresses of wartime life begin to affect them both, and the discovery of a body on an American army base brings new dilemmas for each of them.
With Mary MacLeod, Emily Bruni, Kevin Whately and Joseph May.
Director: John Dove

Played: 68 | Download | Duration: 00:57:38

Murder on the Homefront

02 The Case Of A Lifetime 19980718 19990605 By Michael Crompton, adapted in two parts from the book by Molly Lefebure.
2: `The Case of a Lifetime'.
1941.
Molly starts work with the famous Home Office pathologist, Hardcastle, and attempts to solve an extraordinary case.
With Emily Bruni, Chrissie Cotterill and Jonathan Hackett.
Director John Dove.
02 The Case Of A Lifetime 19980718 20031129 By Michael Crompton, adapted in four parts from the book by Molly Lefebure.
In 1941, Molly starts work with famous Home Office pathologist Hardcastle.

Played: 92 | Download | Duration: 00:57:08

Murder On The Home Front

Murder On The Home Front 

01 Love At First Sight 19980711 19990529 By Michael Crompton, adapted in two parts from the book by Molly Lefebure.
1: `Love at First Sight'.
It is 1941, and a chance encounter in a dancehall leads Molly to romance, murder and a new career.
With Emily Bruni, Bob Cryer and James Hazeldine.
Director John Dove.
01 Love At First Sight 19980711 20031122 By Michael Crompton, adapted from Molly Lefebure's book.
It is 1941, and a chance encounter in a dancehall leads Molly to romance, murder and a new career.

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Prisoner Brainwashing

Prisoner Brainwashing, Document 091116, 32/22 normalized

Mike tracks down formerly secret reports from MI5 that describe how brainwashing techniques were being used inside British intelligence bases in North Africa during the Second World War. There, prisoners were exposed to truth drugs and other methods that shocked even a senior agent who went on to head the secret service. Allegations appeared in the press in 1960 and questions were asked in parliament. The claims were denied by then prime minister Harold Macmillan, but Document has evidence that he misled the country.

(Wait to see what series starts here tomorrow! Just after midnight Chicago time)

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Saturday Play (Repost)

SP HMS Ulysses version 2 (1997-06-14)

Listener Mike pointed out that the original post was no good
Here is the replacement

Th eoriginal file was 115 megs, way to big to upload.
When I compressed it, something went wrong.
I played this file and it seems fine now.

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Sixty Years of Heartache

Sixty Years of Heartache - Britain at War and Peace

Radio 2 - 2004-06-01

6th June 2004 marks the 60th anniversary of the D-Day landings.
Thousands of British servicemen and women laid down their lives to eventually defeat Hitler.

Since then, British forces have been involved in conflicts in Korea, Suez, Northern Ireland, The Falklands, The Gulf, Bosnia,
and Iraq. Some have had almost unanimous public support while others have prompted anti war demonstrations.

John Simpson looks at how British attitudes to war and peace have changed since the Second World War.

copied from a usenet newsgroup

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The People's D-Day

The People's D-Day

Libby Purves follows the way Britain prepared for the assault on Normandy through the eyes and ears of the men and women right across Britain who were - wittingly or unwittingly - caught up in the vast machine of war:

Accompanied by historian Dr Adrian Smith, Libby travels from the streets and wharves of Southampton to the New Forest glades where many troops camped before embarking for France, to introduce a sequence of short features and stories told by the people who made D-Day happen.

7:13 The machine of war - Part 1
7:21 A nurse at D-Day
7:31 When the beacjes were for sandcastles
7:39 Mapping Nazi Normandy
7:55 A harbour called Mulberry
8:15 The machine of war - Part 2
8:27 Cornwall, caves and communications
8:44 Faking it with Fortitude

All times approximate

Produced by Clare Csonka, Isobel Eaton, Simon Elmes,
Neil George, Beaty Rubens, Miles Warde and Rachel White
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Hello everyone, I feel like I’m in a quandary. There is a limited amount of “modern” material that is available for posting on Radio At War. So some of you will notice repeats from when radioatwar was a sub-system of radiomensa. Sorry, I’m doing the best I can without paying for additional material.

Secondly, the supply of “old” materials has me confused. The next major set of material that is available is “words at war”. I am hesitating posting that because another blogger (that is now defunct) posted an episode of ‘words at war’ a week.

I guess my question is, should I mix in some episodes of words at war or just avoid them.

I haven’t made up my mind yet on what to do. Help!

Leave me a comment or e-mail me with your thoughts.

I have almost the complete set of the KM99 work available. Perhaps I should post some of those videos?

Ralph

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Afternoon Play

20000223-AP-Hanna, I'll Find You (Frances McNeil)

Half-sisters Ushi and Hanna are parted during the war -
Hanna has to flee Austria because of her Jewishness, and the girls lose touch.

Believing that Hanna escaped the Nazis, Ushi searches obsessively for her after the war.
But did Hanna escape? And what secrets might be revealed should Ushi find her sister?

With Jan Ravens and Lou Gish.

Director: Andy Jordan

Played: 81 | Download | Duration: 00:43:12

Afternoon Play

Nuclear Reactions

At the end of the war, Germany's most talented nuclear physicists were
brought to England to discover exactly what they knew about the atomic
bomb.

Major Rittner - Nick Dunning
Anton - Michael Shelford
Fee - Alison Pettitt
Werner Heisenberg - Chris McHallem
Otto Hahn- Nickolas Grace
Max Von Laue - Richard Howard
Kurt Diebner - Sam Dale
Friedrich Von Weizsacker - Michael Shelford
Professor Blackett/Reader - Ian McElhinney
Pianist - Mark McGrath

Producer / Director - Eoin O'Callaghan

Nuclear Reactions stars Nick Dunning and Nickolas Grace. At the end of
WWII, Germany's most talented and formidable nuclear physicists were
rounded up and brought to England. The British were keen to discover
exactly what they knew about the atomic bomb, but they also wanted to
ensure that the powerhouse of German thought remained intact, and
capable of regenerating a defeated nation.

Played: 91 | Download | Duration: 00:43:56

Afternoon Play

Afternoon Play - 2005-11-03

The Waterloo Model

By Peter Roberts.

In the years after Waterloo, an obscure lieutenant is commissioned to make a model of the Battle. But when his account of the events begins to differ from that of the Duke of Wellington, he finds his funding dries up and he becomes enmeshed in a bureaucratic struggle.

This is a witty, fictionalised account of the true story of the model which is still on display at the National Army Museum.

Narrator ...... David Hargreaves
Soborne ..... David Birrell
Helen ...... Julia Hills
Vivian ...... Michael Elwyn
Somerset ...... Robert Lister
Wellington ...... Jon Glover
Ellice ...... Paul Clarkson
Blythe ...... Harry Myers

Director Peter Leslie Wild.

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Holocaust Interviews

Holocaust Interviews - 460921 - Robert Zeplit

Played: 60 | Download | Duration: 00:33:03

Holocaust Interviews

Holocaust Interviews - 460822 - Otto Feuer

Played: 57 | Download | Duration: 01:20:00

Holocaust Interviews

Holocaust Interviews - 460822 - Nelly Bondy

Played: 57 | Download | Duration: 01:12:51

Holocaust Interviews

Holocaust Interviews - 460816 - [Unknown] Feneger

Played: 38 | Download | Duration: 00:06:51

Holocaust Interviews

Holocaust Interviews - 460812 - Marcelle Precker

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Holocaust Interviews

Holocaust Interviews - 460812 - Manis Mizrachi

Played: 45 | Download | Duration: 00:23:13

Hitler's Balham HQ

Hitler's Balham HQ, Punt PI 100802 32k

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McCarthy There Were Reds Under the Bed

McCarthy There Were Reds Under the Bed 100725

David Aaronovitch thinks the unthinkable about the McCarthy period.

The hunt for the so called 'Reds under the beds' during the Cold War is generally regarded as a deeply regrettable blot on U.S history. But the release of classified documents reveals that Joseph McCarthy was right after all about the extent of Soviet infiltration into the highest reaches of the U.S government.

Thanks to the public release of top secret FBI decryptions of Soviet communications, as well as the release under the fifty year rule of FBI records and Soviet archives, we now know that the Communist spying McCarthy fought against was extensive, reaching to the highest level of the State department and the White House.

We reveal that many of McCarthy's anticommunist investigations were in fact on target. His fears about the effect Soviet infiltration might be having on US foreign policy, particularly in the Far East were also well founded.

The decrypts also reveal that people such as Rosenberg, Alger Hiss and even Robert Oppenheimer were indeed working with the Soviets. We explore why much of this information, available for years to the FBI, was not made public. We also examine how its suppression prevented the prosecution of suspects.

Finally, we explore the extent to which Joseph McCarthy, with his unsavoury methods and smear tactics, could have done himself a disservice, resulting in his name being forever synonymous with paranoia and the ruthless suppression of free speech.

Hearing from former FBI, CIA and KGB operatives as well as formerly blacklisted writers, David Aaronovitch, himself from a family of communists tells the untold story of Soviet influence and espionage in the United States.

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Repairing Auschwitz

Repairing Auschwitz 100804

A major appeal is underway for funds to repair the death camp sites at Auschwitz in Poland, the great symbol of the Nazi Holocaust. Well over a million people a year visit. And this hugely symbolic place is also regularly visited by leading politicians and personalities.

But many of the buildings, meant by the Nazis as temporary structures, are crumbling.
Earlier this year, as this programme will reveal, part of the site came close to catastrophic flooding. And the museum's conservation departments struggle to preserve the condition and authenticity of thousands of objects left when the Nazis robbed those they were about to murder.

At the same time, "repairing" a death camp begs all kinds of questions about how we remember this most terrible part of the European past. How far is it appropriate to repair and modernise the site if it is meant as a place of memorial and an authentic record of what happened during the war? How can the practical demands of a mass tourist destination be reconciled with the dignity of what is a mass grave? And how much tension is there between the different groups and countries - notably Poland and Israel - for whom the site has such significance?

Based around visits to Auschwitz and insight into the work there "behind the scenes", this programme will explore with museum staff, former Auschwitz prisoners, visitors and historians the dilemmas of preserving the physical memory of the Holocaust as its living witnesses die out.

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The Mossad

The Mossad 100803

The Mossad, or 'Institute of Special Tasks', is one of the most feared and fabled security services in the world. It has been lauded for daring operations and accused of cold-blooded murder. It is widely thought to have been behind the assassination of a leading member of the group Hamas. Mahmoud al-Mahbouh's body was found in his luxury hotel room in Dubai earlier this year. It was locked on the inside and had a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on the outside. First indications were that he had died from natural causes.

In this special documentary, the BBC's Security Correspondent Gordon Corera talks to key figures from The Mossad, which was founded after the Arab-Israeli war in 1948. Their testimony is both revealing and intriguing:

"They teach you how to steal and they teach you how to kill and they teach you to do things which normal people don't do."

"You follow people against their will, you open their mail against their will, you listen to them against their will."

"The reputation of The Mossad, no matter how high it is, doesn't compare to how good it really is."

The programme includes interviews with a Ephraim Halevy (former head of The Mossad and confidant of Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon) as well as Rafi Eitan (leader of the team which captured the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in the sixties).

Other former Mossad members talk about their recruitment and training as well as covert operations in the Middle East. They insist they follow a strict ethical code but others question whether their methods are in breach of international law.

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The Reunion

The Reunion - Beirut hostages (R4 2009-05-03)

Played: 50 | Download | Duration: 00:41:58

Conchies of Holton-Cum-Beckering

The Conchies of Holton-Cum-Beckering 090527

Billy Bragg meets the surviving members of a unique group of Second World War conscientious objectors who formed themselves into unique farming communities. In the Lincolnshire village of Holton-Cum-Beckering, three such societies were established. Made up of artistic and creative people, the communities became famous for their recitals, plays and readings as well as the amateur dramatic society which still performs today. But as the war came to an end, the utopian ideal fell apart.

copied from a usenet newsgroup

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Tokyo Rose Mock Sign-On

1945-09-20 Orphan Anne Performs Mock Sign-On For US Newsreels

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Tokyo Rose Mock Sign-Off

1945-09-20 Orphan Anne Performs Mock Sign-Off For US Newsreels

Played: 55 | Download | Duration: 00:00:19

1945-09-13 ABC Your AAF - A Report To The American People

1945-09-13 ABC Your AAF - A Report To The American People

Played: 40 | Download | Duration: 00:29:05

1945-09-02 Truman's Victory Over Japan Speech

1945-09-02 Truman's Victory Over Japan Speech

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1945-09-02 NBC Japanese Surrender Broadcast Recap

1945-09-02 NBC Japanese Surrender Broadcast Recap

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1945-09-02 Japanese

1945-09-02 Japanese Surrender Ceremony Onboard USS Missouri

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1945-09-01 General MacArthur On Victory Over Japan

1945-09-01 General MacArthur On Victory Over Japan

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1945-08-26 CBS World News Today

1945-08-26 CBS World News Today

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1945-08-19 CBS World News Today

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1945-08-15 President Truman On Victory

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1945-08-15 BBC King George VI To Empire

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1945-08-15 NHK Hiro Hito Announces Japanese Surrender

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1945-08-15 BBC Clement Atlee Announces The Surrender Of Japan

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VJ Day

1945-08-15 BBC British Crowd Celebrates VJ Day

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KM99

1945-08-15 BBC British Crowd Sings God Save The King

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1945-08-14 NBC Ben Grauer On VJ Day Celebrations In Times Square

1945-08-14 NBC Ben Grauer On VJ Day Celebrations In Times Square

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1945-08-14 CBS Robert Trout Reports End Of World War II

1945-08-14 CBS Robert Trout Reports End Of World War II

Played: 54 | Download | Duration: 00:00:15

1945-08-14 CBS Reports VJ Day Celebrations In Cinncinati

1945-08-14 CBS Reports VJ Day Celebrations In Cinncinati

Played: 45 | Download | Duration: 00:00:47

1945-08-14 CBS Reports Truman Accepts Japanese Surrender

1945-08-14 CBS Reports Truman Accepts Japanese Surrender

Played: 45 | Download | Duration: 00:03:54

KM99

1945-08-14 Woman Describes VJ Day Announcement

Played: 45 | Download | Duration: 00:00:24

VJ Day

1945-08-14 Reaction In Washington

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KM99

1945-08-14 Public Announcement - VJ Day Services

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KM99

1945-08-14 NBC via AP - Secretary Forrestal On Japanese Surrender

Played: 45 | Download | Duration: 00:00:35

KM99

1945-08-14 NBC HV Kaltenborn Reports On The End Of The War

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KM99

1945-08-14 NBC Don Oder Reporting From Chicago

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1945-08-14 MBS Bulletin - Japan Surrenders

1945-08-14 MBS Bulletin - Japan Surrenders

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