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The History Makers / BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds, Wednesday 31 May
On the night of 13 March 1944, the Greekregistered steamship SS Peleus was en route from Freetown to Buenos Aires when she was hit amidships by two torpedoes, launched by a German U-boat, U-852. The t
How the Red Army pushed back German forces and what they discovered in their wake as WWII turned
On a frosty New Year’s Day in 1944, a young soldier from Newcastle married the love of his life with barely four hours to spare. My father, Corporal George Bell, a conscript with the Royal Electrical
When we think of the U-boat campaign during the Second World War, images often arise of silent predators gliding beneath the waves, steely and lethal, striking fear into Allied convoys. The myth of th
Shadows Ulrik Skotte The Umbrella Murder The ...
Comedy historian Robert Ross pays tribute to some of the finest and funniest, but often overlooked, names in showbiz
