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A Game of Birds and Wolves
- The Secret Game That Won the War
- By: Simon Parkin
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
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"Find out what is happening in the Atlantic, find ways of getting the convoys through, and sink the U-boats!" (Prime Minister Winston Churchill) 1942. Liverpool. The war isn't going to plan. Distinguished admiral Sir Max Horton is in the game room on his knees commanding a fleet of toy German U-boats. Behind a curtain his unknown opponent is manoeuvring the toy British battleships. Five times the pair have played the game and five times Horton's U-boats have suffered defeat. Exasperated, he demands to know his enemy. And from behind the curtain steps a fresh-faced 17-year-old woman.
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Insightful, inspiring and melancholy
- By Andrew Fox on 06-04-2020
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A Game of Birds and Wolves
- The Secret Game That Won the War
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 07-11-2019
- Language: English
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives
- A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal
- By: Simon Parkin
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
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The police came for Peter Fleischmann in the early hours. It reminded the teenager of the Gestapo's moonlit roundups he had narrowly avoided at home in Berlin. Now, having endured a perilous journey to reach England—hiding from the rampaging Nazi thugs at his orphanage, boarding a Kindertransport to safety—here the aspiring artist was, on a ship bound for the Isle of Man, suspected of being a Nazi spy. What had gone wrong?
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The Island of Extraordinary Captives
- A True Story of an Artist, a Spy and a Wartime Scandal
- Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 03-02-2022
- Language: English
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Death by Video Game
- Tales of Obsession from the Virtual Frontline
- By: Simon Parkin
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
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In Canada, volunteers are raising money for charity by playing marathon stints of Penn & Teller's Desert Bus, probably the worst video game ever created. Across the globe, thousands of viewers tune in to Kurt J. Mac's epic but seemingly pointless voyage towards the outer realms of Minecraft's procedurally generated world. In Iraq, mothers encourage their children to enter Call of Duty competitions to keep them off the bomb-ravaged streets of Baghdad.
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Death by Video Game
- Tales of Obsession from the Virtual Frontline
- Narrated by: Toby Longworth
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 20-08-2015
- Language: English
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Operazione Raspberry
- La battaglia dell'Atlantico e il gioco segreto delle donne che sfidarono Hitler
- By: Simon Parkin
- Narrated by: Fabrizio Rocchi
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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Nel 1941 gli Alleati stanno perdendo la guerra, almeno nell'Atlantico. Migliaia di navi partono dal Nord America cariche di rifornimenti per il Regno Unito, ma viveri e munizioni non arrivano a destinazione: i convogli vengono sistematicamente intercettati e distrutti dagli U-Boot, i temibili sottomarini dei nazisti. La Gran Bretagna è ormai allo stremo, ma il primo ministro Winston Churchill non vuole che la popolazione ne sia informata. I vertici politici e militari mentono sul numero di imbarcazioni affondate e su quello dei morti, pur sapendo che manca poco alla resa.
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Operazione Raspberry
- La battaglia dell'Atlantico e il gioco segreto delle donne che sfidarono Hitler
- Narrated by: Fabrizio Rocchi
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 24-03-2021
- Language: Italian
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Die Insel der außergewöhnlichen Gefangenen [The Island of Extraordinary Prisoners]
- Deutsche Künstler in Churchills Lagern [German Artists in Churchill's Camps]
- By: Simon Parkin
- Narrated by: Michael A. Grimm
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
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Simon Parkin beleuchtet ein bisher unbekanntes Kapitel des Zweiten Weltkriegs: Im Mai 1940 ließ Winston Churchill alle männlichen Deutschen und Österreicher zwischen 16 und 60 Jahren ohne Gerichtsverfahren als »feindliche Ausländer« internieren. Die Flüchtlinge waren den Nazis gerade entkommen und wurden nun von Churchill auf die Isle of Man zwischen Irland und England verbannt.
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Die Insel der außergewöhnlichen Gefangenen [The Island of Extraordinary Prisoners]
- Deutsche Künstler in Churchills Lagern [German Artists in Churchill's Camps]
- Narrated by: Michael A. Grimm
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 17-08-2023
- Language: German
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My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin
- By: Simon Parkin
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In My Perfect Console, Simon Parkin, contributing writer for the New Yorker and The Observer newspaper's video game critic invites guests from the worlds of gaming, film and television, music, comedy and more to pick the five video games they would like to immortalise on their very own fictional games machine, and discuss what their choices mean to them."Thoroughly modern and ahead of its time...a gift." - NEW YORK'S VULTURE"Charming, insightful." -- THE GUARDIAN.TIME OUT'S 50 Best Podcasts.(Note: Episode descriptions may contain affiliate links). Be attitude for gains. https://plus.acast.com/...
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