Original Air Date – 19 October 2022Episode – The Trail Went Cold – Episode 299 – Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?Duration – 58:11 minutesHost – Robin Warder Whenever I hear a podcast host with a North American accent, about to tell the British story of Bella in the Wych Elm, I cross my […]
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For several years now, I have been trying to have a look at an episode from Foyle’s War. The episode, entitled “The Cage”, apparently aired in Season 7 of the extremely popular UK TV series. One would think that the episode would have been relatively easy to track down, but living in North America makes
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Last October, I received an email from Rory Kaufhold of WAG Entertainment. The company wanted to use an image of Josef Jakobs in an upcoming episode of Combat Dealers for Discovery. I agreed on the condition that they send me a copy of the program when it aired. I never heard back from Rory and
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The Magazine Article From the Editor, After the Battle, volume 150, Battle of Britain Prints International Ltd., 2010, page 53. Summary A full page spread (mostly photos) summarizing my visit to Ramsey, Huntingdonshire with Winston Ramsey. Includes photograph of me standing in the potato filed where Josef Jakobs landed, and in front of the Ramsey
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My journey to uncover the story of Josef Jakobs, my grandfather, really took off when I found the eleventh edition of After the Battle magazine in late 1980s. The two page spread on Josef in the magazine gave me way more information than any I had found to date. After contacting the editor, Winston Ramsey,
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I discovered a veritable treasure trove of podcasts the other week and quickly found a whole bunch related to Bella in the Wych Elm. I thought I would start with a trilogy from Unsolved Murders: True Crime Stories, produced by Parcast. The three part series starts with an overview of the murder and the various
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A few weeks ago, Talk Radio Europe had me on their 10:30 am morning show. Given that they are in Spain and I’m on Canada’s West Coast… I pried myself out of bed at 1:00 am to be moderately awake and coherent for the 1:30 am interview! You can listen to the interview here… Thanks
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The History Press kindly set up an interview for me with the crew at TalkRadioEurope – Spain’s only English speaking talk radio network. Fellow author David Tremain has done several excellent interviews with them, so I’m really looking forward to it! For those interested… the interview is tomorrow, Wednesday January 8. You can Listen Live
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A cousin of mine in Germany made me aware of a German documentary that broadcast on 11 June 2019 in Germany. The show was a four part series on Geheimnisse des Towers (Secrets of the Tower [of London]): Geheimnisse des Towers: Spione und Kronjuwelen (Spies & Crown Jewels) Geheimnisse des Towers: Verschwörer und Verräter (Conspirators
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Another interruption to the blog series on the black market German passport business. I’m needing some serious research time to look into the Finn Algot Niska. Quite a character but much of the information is in Finnish and requires some tedious translation work with Google Translate. Stay tuned for the continuing series in a week