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Patrick Bishop

Patrick Bishop

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Sep 15, 2026

Helena Bonham CarterNARRATOR
19:58
When Niamh and Lucien arrived, there were no more southbound trains, so they had to hang about in the town.
20:06
Niamh often shows signs of a real sloppiness.
20:10
At one point, he gets out a bar of chocolate.
20:12
Now, chocolate is like gold dust.
20:14
It's pretty much disappeared from German shops since the beginning of the war.
20:20
Shocked, Lutyen told Niamh to put it away.
20:23
He doesn't learn his lesson because later on they go to a cinema.
Helena Bonham CarterNARRATOR
21:29
They hurried to a nearby village and boarded another train.
Jeremy O'GradyMODERATOR
14:17
Ladies and gentlemen, Patrick Bishop.
14:26
Good evening.
14:27
I'm going to start with a couple of quotations.
14:29
The first was delivered in a BBC radio commentary broadcast a few days after the RAF had just launched its first thousand bomber raid on Cologne on the night of 30th to the 31st of May 1942.
14:43
I quote, in 1940, when the Germans were bombing Britain, they did not expect retaliation on a very heavy scale, the speaker said.
14:53
They were not afraid to boast in their propaganda about the slaughter of civilians which they were bringing about and the terror which their raids aroused.
15:02
Now, when the tables have turned, they're beginning to cry out against the whole business of aerial bombing, which they declare to be both cruel and useless.

45 MINS LATER

Jeremy O'GradyMODERATOR
59:42
How much was that, rather than any finely judged moral concerns, the basis for dumping all these bombs on civilians?

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