I stood with Harry excerpt from new Book About Harry Leslie Smith
This is an excerpt from the book that I am writing about Harry Leslie Smith, my father. It is about the last 10 years of his life as well as...
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Harry's Last Stand
Survivor of the Great Depression, RAF veteran Activist for the Welfare State Author of Harry's Last Stand Love Among the Ruins, 1923 & The Empress of Australia
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14 episodes
A year after the death of Harry Leslie Smith's Death his son is diagnosed with Cancer
The son of Harry Leslie Smith and keeper of his legacy talks about his cancer diagnosis, almost a year to the day of when his father died.
Epilogue
Epilogue to Harry's Leslie Smith's Podcast Harry's Last Stand. A summing up and perhaps a continuation.
Harry's Last Stand Episode 13 Christmas
In the snug of a pub while the storms of austerity batter Britain, I chat with you about the effects of poverty during the Great Depression...
Harry's Last Stand Episode 11 We are all at the edge of Destitution
Our world is much like the world of my youth;we are all working the coal face for pennies a day. Our wages are flat but our expenses are ris...
Harry's Last Stand Episode 10 Don't Let My Past Be Your Future
Harry Leslie Smith reads from his recently published book Don't Let My Past Be Your Future Britain is at its most dangerous juncture since H...
Harry's Last Stand Episode 9-Love Among the Ruins
I have lived almost 100 years and I am approaching the long night of nonexistence, but I am not afraid because I have survived much turmoil:...
Episode 8 Harry's Last Stand Theresa May will privatise the NHS if we don't resist the Tories
Until Labour came to government in 1945, I couldn’t believe that the working class would ever be treated as equal citizens in a society run...
Harry's Last Stand Episode 7 Austerity has the blood of Grenfell Tower on its hands
We are a nation unhappily and unfairly divided by wealth and privilege.It seems people died in Grenfell because they just weren’t wealthy en...
Harry's Last Stand Episode 6 Today's Young Must be a Tide To Raise All Boats
On June 8th, you have to rise up and be counted because you are worth more than flat wages. You are worth more than eternal austerity. You a...
Harrys Last Stand Episode 5 Austerity is the end of Hope
The British General Election is just weeks away and because of austerity, this maybe democracy's last whistle stop. I have lived for 94 year...
Harry's Last Stand Episode 4 The Fall of Nazism 1945 & the Rise of Democracy
In the fourth episode of Harry's Last Stand. Harry Leslie Smith talks about the UK General Election, the dangers of nuclear war, the sufferi...
Harrys Last Stand Episode 3 The world Before the NHS when the poor died worst than animals
In Episode 3 of Harry's Last Stand, 94 year old Harry Leslie Smith calls out to Britain to register to vote for the upcoming General Electio...
Harry's Last Stand Episode 2 The brutal short life of poor people
It's the Second Episode of Harry's Last Stand and as we wait for our trains in a railway pub. I have begun to tell more about my 94 years of...