#108 Lop Ears and Jackass Ep 1 Scott vs Amundsen - a very British failure

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The race is on between Captain Robert Scott of the Royal Navy and Norwegian Roald Amundsen. As Scott’s wife, Kathleen Bruce, requires, and as Edwardian culture expects, Scott will test the manliness and endurance of himself and his team. Amundsen will test the efficacy of Norwegian Telemark skiing combined with Inuit survival techniques. We know which team we would prefer to be on.

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#108 Lop Ears and Jackass Ep 1 Scott vs Amundsen - a very British failure

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On the eve of the Somme the British had far too few artillery guns, and most of the ones they had were the wrong sort. They needed five times as many heavy guns before they could launch an attack. The few big guns they did have were grossly inaccurate, sometimes missing a target by one mile. They were firing shells that were not fitted with delayed-action fuses which meant the German machine-gunners were safe in their deep underground bunkers. And yet British schoolchildren are still taught it was a surprise that the bombardment that preceded the infantry attack failed so catastrophically. (R) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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#63 The generals never studied how to attack trenches - Ep 3 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16 40:16

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The British Army wanted to throw men against machines. Its generals had not thought about how to cross 100-200 yards of open space with wire entanglements. They had been offered plenty of designs for armoured tractors with caterpillar tracks but had ignored them. It was Churchill, head of the Royal Navy, who eventually funded the development of the first ‘tank’. But they arrived late at the Somme and were so badly deployed they couldn’t save lives. And that wasn’t the worst of the problems the British army had created for itself. (R) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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#62 They refused to take orders - Ep 2 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914:16 37:41

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Unlike the Royal Navy, the British Army proved itself over the course of decades incapable of taking new ideas on board: trench warfare, the machine gun and the tank to name a few. And at the heart of the problem was that too many men in the army refused to take orders. Not the rank and file, you understand, who were executed for any refusal to march into a hail of bullets. But the officers. The reason was that they regarded themselves as gentlemen – and gentlemen could not be bossed around. (R) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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#61 They just pretended to shoot - Ep 1 Nightmare in the Trenches 1914-16 40:08

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1 July 1916. Had British Corps commanders understood machine gun warfare they would not have sent British infantrymen across No Man’s Land unprotected from the German machine gun crews. In fact we explain why the British army need never have been in the position it was in on the Somme, scrabbling about at the bottom of hills, peering up at German fortifications in all the strategic locations. We look at its refusal to take trench warfare seriously even though it had been around for 60 years. (R) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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#07 That Dress - Ep 1 - 2 May 1937: the King, his wife, their Führer, the lobster' 24:22

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2 May 1937. Cecil Beaton photographs for American Vogue the twice-divorced American heiress soon to marry the ex-King Edward VIII. Wallis Simpson wears a Schiaparelli ‘waltz dress’ with a Salvador Dali red lobster down her skirt. The setting is a French chateau belonging to the American businessman who a few months later will mastermind the Windsors’ honeymoon tour of Germany. But what – other than Wallis Simpson - connects all these people? (R) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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#111 A live donkey or a dead lion? - Ep 4 Amundsen vs Scott - a very British failure 38:31

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Amundsen reached the South Pole a month before Scott, but his story never captured the imagination of the English. They wanted heroic tales of desperate survival in appalling conditions - even if those conditions were of their own making. Scott went on to be glorified in the First World War by men like Haig who used young men as German cannon fodder because he believed British spirit was stronger than the polar cold, or German bullets. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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#110 ‘the worst has happened’ - Ep 3 Scott vs Amundsen - a very British failure 37:55

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When Scott took a fifth man with him to the South Pole he signed each man’s death warrants. Not for the first time, Scott’s endless calculations for four men – pages and pages of scribbled notes on weights and distances and food and cooking fuel to carry – proved to be a waste of time. His surgeon had already warned him he’d calculated too little food per day for manhauling a sled. What’s more they only had four pairs of skis. They’d have to take it in turns to walk. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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#109 The Worst Journey in the World - Ep 2 Scott vs Amundsen - a very British failure 35:33

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Over a year before he and two of his men starved to death, just two days’ march from a depot with food and fuel, Scott confided to young biologist Apsley Cherry-Garrard. ‘This is the end of the pole.’ He wasn’t questioning his planning or his leadership. He was blaming what he saw as the failure of their ‘transport,’ their dogs and ponies. Now they would have to rely on the British Naval tradition of man-hauling sledges into blizzards of the Arctic winter. Scott doubted it was possible. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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#108 Lop Ears and Jackass Ep 1 Scott vs Amundsen - a very British failure 39:37

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