<p>This week, Rob and Duncan are telling the story of a ship... or, at least, the story of Noël Coward's story of a ship. It's <em>In Which We Serve</em>! Directed by Coward and David Lean (shipped in, no pun intended, for the action sequences) and starring Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson and Richard Attenborough, this 1942 movie (yes, the war is still raging) tells what was then a very fresh story of the 1941 exploits of Lord Louis Mountbatten (here referred to as Captain Kinross) and the HMS Torrin. A good film? A good ship? And did this change the course of the war?</p><br><p>Presented by Duncan Weldon and Robert Hutton.</p><p>Executive produced by Nick Hilton for Podot.</p><p>Produced by Ewan Cameron.</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

<p>On this week's episode, Rob and Duncan are hobnobbing with stars including Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland and Robert Duvall for <em>The Eagle Has Landed</em>! Based on the 1975 novel by Jack Higgins (and released only a year later) John Sturges' film tells the story of a fiendish German plot to kidnap Winston Churchill. Michael Caine is a German! Donald Sutherland is an Irishman! The whole world is topsy-turvy: but, crucially, was this the operation that changed the course of the war?</p><br><p>Presented by Robert Hutton and Duncan Weldon.</p><p>Executive produced by Nick Hilton for Podot.</p><p>Produced and edited by Ewan Cameron.</p><br><p>For sales and advertising, please visit podotpods.com or email nick@podotpods.com</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

<p>This week, Rob and Duncan are fighting back against the ruthless German paratroopers with the 1942 (yes, mid-war) film, <em>Went the Day Well?</em> Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti and adapted from a Graham Greene story, this is Ealing Studios at its war propaganda finest. Leslie Banks, Mervyn Johns and Basil Sydney both star *and* offer viewers the greatest array of 1940s men's names ever assembled on screen.</p><br><p>Presented by Duncan Weldon and Robert Hutton.</p><p>Executive produced by Nick Hilton for Podot.</p><p>Produced by Ewan Cameron.</p><p>For sales and advertising please contact nick@podotpods.com</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

<p>Today, Rob and Duncan are off to Argentina, a strange, exotic land where the only thing they talk about more than Lionel Messi, is the 1956 movie <em>The Battle of the River Plate</em> (known to our American listeners as <em>Pursuit of the Graf Spee</em>). Is this the only film in history where battleships are given full acting credits? Does it have the nicest of all the Nazis? And – crucially – is this the operation that changed the course of the war?</p><br><p>Presented by Robert Hutton and Duncan Weldon.</p><p>Executive produced by Nick Hilton.</p><p>Edited by Ewan Cameron for Podot.</p><p>This is a Podot podcast. For sales and advertising please visit podotpods.com</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

<p>Today, Rob and Duncan are flying in low and back to 1955 for <em>The Dam Busters</em>! The true story of Guy Gibson, Barnes Wallis and the famous bouncing bomb – brought to life by director Michael Anderson and a cast including Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave. How did <em>The Dam Busters</em> inspire <em>Star Wars</em>? Were the men in suits the real antagonists? And did they really have to keep saying the dog's name?!</p><br><p>Presented by Robert Hutton and Duncan Weldon.</p><p>Executive produced by Nick Hilton for Podot.</p><p>Produced by Ewan Cameron.</p><p>This is a Podot podcast. For sales and advertising visit podotpods.com</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

<p>On this week's episode of A Pod Too Far, Rob and Duncan are going to Greece for <em>The Guns of Navarone</em>! J. Lee Thompson's 1961 thriller, loosely set around the Dodecanese campaign and the fictional German fortress on the island of Navarone, brought together an all-star cast including Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn, Richard Harris and Stanley Baker. So, how big were these big guns? Why were the radio codes so damn obvious? And was <em>this</em> the operation that changed the course of the war?</p><br><p>A Pod Too Far is presented by Robert Hutton and Duncan Weldon.</p><p>Executive produced by Nick Hilton for Podot.</p><p>Production by Ewan Cameron.</p><p>For sales and advertising email nick@podotpods.com</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

<p>Ho ho ho! It's Christmas, and what is more festive and merry than The Great Escape? A perennial Boxing Day favourite (except for Rob, who was forced on family walks), John Sturges' 1963 prisoner of war caper featured one of the great ensemble casts in cinema history: Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, James Garner, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasance and many more. They were all trying to break out of Stalag Luft III – but can the film break out of the doldrums of mediocre moviemaking? Why is there an unhelpful American stuck in the cooler? How miserable was the ending in reality? And – repeat after me – is this the mission that changed the course of the war?</p><br><p>Presented by Robert Hutton and Duncan Weldon.</p><p>Executive produced by Nick Hilton for Podot.</p><p>Edited by Ewan Cameron.</p><p>This is a Podot podcast. For sales and advertising, please visit podotpods.com</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

<p>In case you've missed it, there's a World Cup going on in Qatar. And there's only one place that football and war movies collide: <em>Escape to Victory</em> (known to our cousins in America as just <em>Victory!</em>). With Michael Caine and Sylvester Stallone providing the acting chops, and Pele and Bobby Moore keeping the football end up, is <em>Escape to Victory</em> a successful fusion of these genres? Rob and Duncan sit down to talk through the movie's highs and lows, including whether Gordon Banks could teach Sly to keep goal, if they should've bailed out at half-time, and how much John Huston was paid to direct the film...</p><br><p>Presented by Robert Hutton and Duncan Weldon.</p><p>Executive produced by Nick Hilton for Podot.</p><p>Production by Ewan Cameron.</p><p>For sales and advertising please email nick@podotpods.com</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

<p>Welcome to A Pod Too Far, where authors Robert Hutton and Duncan Weldon sit down each week to rewatch a classic war movie. Today, it's the big one: Richard Attenborough's A Bridge Too Far. The big budget depiction of Operation Market Garden – the Allied forces' failed attempt to seize the bridges at Arnhem – had one of the great casts of cinema history. Sean Connery and Anthony Hopkins, Robert Redford and Dirk Bogarde, Michael Caine, Gene Hackman, Laurence Olivier, James Caan, the list goes on. But is it actually any good as a movie? Let us know what you think by tweeting @podtoofar.</p><br><p>Next week we're watching Escape to Victory – please watch along too if you want to be in on the action!</p><br><p>Presented by Robert Hutton and Duncan Weldon.</p><p>Executive produced by Nick Hilton.</p><p>Produced by Ewan Cameron.</p><p>A Pod Too Far is a Podot podcast. For sales and advertising visit podotpods.com.</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

<p>Join authors Robert Hutton and Duncan Weldon on their journey through the good, the bad and the ugly of old war movies – basically, anything that was on the telly during the Saturday afternoons of their youth!</p><br><p>First episode: A Bridge Too Far (watch along in advance, or enjoy from memory!).</p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>