News of The War

This week we're heading to Guadalcnala for the third in our six episode series, looking at what was going on in the News of the War - during those better-known battles. We say battles - 'battles' is a loose term. You've got the idea. Out to the far east and the Solomon Islands - what was being reported in Britain, and elsewhere, and why?! Andy Aitcheson and Merryn Walters look at the ways in which newspapers reported the antics - and achievements - that were still being phoned in, beyond what was happening on the frontlines. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're off to Monte Cassino in this, the second in our six episode series, looking at what was going on in the News of the War - during those well-known battles. We say battles - 'battles' is a loose term. You've got the idea. Out to Italy this week - what was being reported in Britain, and elsewhere, and why?! Andy Aitcheson and Merryn Walters look at the ways in which newspapers reported the antics - and achievements - that were still being phoned in, beyond what was happening on the frontlines. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The first in our six episode series, looking at what was going on in the News of the War - during those well-known battles. We say battles - 'battles' is a loose term. You'll get the idea. Starting with Leningrad - what was being reported in Britain?! Andy Aitcheson and Merryn Walters look at the ways in which newspapers reported the antics - and achievements - that were still being phoned in, beyond what was happening on the frontlines. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It had to happen eventually. A one-off on the SAS, finding out how they were mentioned in the newspapers - or not - between 1939 and 1945. A touch of the David Stirling, and a smattering of the Paddy Mayne - that's the SAS for you. Andy Aitcheson and Merryn Walters have to do a lot of sideways thinking this week. Derring-do doesn't always make it - overtly - to the front pages, but it does appear when you look for it. Listen in for news of the SAS, but also of our next six-episode season ... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is the last in our six-episode of the Generalissimos - and this week, it's the turn of BLM. Bernard Law Montgomery. Was he a legend in his own lunchbreak? Or the greatest general of WW2? And how did the newspapers treat him - fairly or not?! In this last in the series of #NewsoftheWar, Andy Aitcheson and Merryn Walters look at the ways in which newspapers reported the antics - and achievements - of six Generalissimos. This week, it's Montgomery. One of six men whose names are well known, and whose chests were littered in ribbons; and newspapers that weren't destined for chip paper yet, but were still full news and views about those men. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.