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WW2: War and Words
The story of the 20 momentous years from 1936 to 1956 that changed the course of history, as told by Jonathan Dimbleby and through the words of remarkable BBC correspondents.
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Listen to WW2: War and Words, a Society & Culture podcast by BBC. Stream 7 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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7 episodesBurma, Berlin and Belsen
The Allied advance through Germany recaptures Berlin, but uncovers the atrocities of the Holocaust, as war in the Far East rages on. With Jo...
Paris Liberated; Allied defeat at Arnhem
As Paris falls to the Allies and German resistance in Italy falters, the defeat at Arnhem in the Netherlands is a major setback for the Alli...
D-Day and the Liberation of Normandy
1944’s hush-hush Allied plans to invade occupied France bring success, but hard fighting, as Hitler’s troops are well dug in in Normandy. Wi...
Dunkirk and the Fall of Paris
The German army outflanks the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and forces the epic retreat of Dunkirk as Paris falls to Hitler’s forces.
The Phoney War
WW2 begins quietly with little actual fighting, but BBC reporters develop brilliant skills at telling the story of ‘the Phoney War’. With Jo...
The Spanish Civil War and beyond
Jonathan Dimbleby listens to the 1930s drumbeat of war through the burgeoning reporting skills of the BBC’s newly-appointed reporter corps.
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