Episode
483: No Such Thing As Rivets On A Tombstone
During that era, the port of Aden maintained a kind of special status. Basically, Aden was in a pretty constant state of emergency. Things were so dicey there that British citizens living there were issued pretty much…
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There was a factory in Southampton which made, I think, most of the Spitfires, and it was bombed in 1940 by the Luftwaffe, and it was not just bombed, it was flattened, and this was a disaster.
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We had one case: there was a couple at a dinner party in the 1970s, and over the dinner table the wife said, 'Oh, I was building Spitfires in Salisbury during the war.'
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They just divide, it was amazing. They just divided it up. Lots of them were in Salisbury and Reading and Trowbridge and just like all over the place, basically. This came out decades after the war that this is how it…
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It was a guy called Dr. William King who was an Irish geologist who eventually was the one who said, let's call it Neanderthal, because it was found — the particular one they were looking at, found in 1856 at the…
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