Episodes

  • 21. Question Time: The Retreat from Burma

    21. Question Time: The Retreat from Burma
    Oct 13 2025
    This week Jack and Rob answer your questions that have built up over the last 20 weeks! At the end Jack and Rob also give a quick run down of the future of the pod.

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • 20. Reflecting on the Retreat

    20. Reflecting on the Retreat
    Oct 6 2025
    This week Rob and Jack welcome the fascinating David Tanner - author of Burma 1942: Memories of a Retreat, the Diary of Ralph Tanner, KOYLI. David co-wrote the book with his father who was with 2 KOYLI in the retreat in 1942, but also worked in Japan in the 1970s and 80s, where his father visited. This is a fascinating chat reflecting on the retreat from Burma.

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    54 mins
  • 19. Eric Lambert: Saviour of 5th Army

    19. Eric Lambert: Saviour of 5th Army
    Sep 29 2025
    Rob hit gold when he was recently gifted an unpublished memoir/diary by Eric Lambert, who, among other things, played a fascinating role in helping get the Chinese 5 Army out of the Hukawng Valley - the Valley of Death. This week Rob and Jack discuss his chapter on this topic, and the retreat of Chinese 5 Army.

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • 18. Exodus Burma and the human cost of war

    18. Exodus Burma and the human cost of war
    Sep 22 2025
    This week Jack and Rob discuss the human cost of the retreat in 1942 with the wonderful Felicity Goodall, author of Exodus Burma! The British Escape Through the Jungles of Death.

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • 17. The Jungle War

    17. The Jungle War
    Sep 15 2025
    This week Rob and Jack welcome Hannah Watson, author of The Jungle War, to discuss the retreat from Burma and the challenges of presenting the subject in a book aimed at children and adults alike!

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    53 mins
  • 16. Grandfather Longlegs: Hugh Seagrim GC

    16. Grandfather Longlegs: Hugh Seagrim GC
    Sep 8 2025
    This week Jack and Rob interview historian Philip Davies, author of Lost Warriors, about Major Hugh Seagrim GC and also Ras Pagani. - two of the most courageous men of the Second World War.

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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • 15. Burma Army's Swansong - retreat into India

    15. Burma Army's Swansong - retreat into India
    Sep 1 2025
    This week Jack and Rob finish the narrative of the retreat from Burma, discussing the final retreat across the Chindwin, and into safety in India. The Burma Army's swansong, but fear not dear listener, for there are still some more episodes, interviews, and a Q+A to come!

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    1 hr and 25 mins
  • 14. Elephants, and novelising the retreat

    14. Elephants, and novelising the retreat
    Aug 25 2025
    This week Rob and Jack were joined by the brilliant journalist and novelist John Sweeney. Aside from his work all over the world and covering all sorts of topics, including Trump and Putin, John also wrote the novel Elephant Novel, set during the retreat from Burma in 1942, and partly inspired by 'Elephant Bill' Williams.

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    59 mins