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In September I was interviewed for an upcoming about the 1980 Embassy siege, and the dramatic assault that ended it. The programme is due to be streamed in December on Paramount+.

That was my first TV appearance, but over the years, I've been in newspapers, on podcasts, YouTube channels, and radio programmes.


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Russell Phillips

My first appearance was on BBC Radio Stoke, talking to Den Siegertsz about the link between and . I was nervous, but Den was lovely and put me right at ease. Unfortunately although the programme is listed on iPlayer, it isn't available to listen. I still have a copy that they gave me at the time, though.
bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03zvpn7
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BBCBBC Radio Stoke - Den Siegertsz, Rediscovering Stoke on Trent's links with LidiceWaking you with great music, what's on and a first look at the stories of the day.

Later in 2016, I was on the WW2 Podcast, again talking about the assassination of Heydrich, Lidice, and the StokeOnTrent miners.
ww2podcast.com/ww2-podcast/ant

In 2018, I talked to Ian at Cold War Conversations about . That was my first experience of Zoom - in those pre-Covid days, it was a very niche tool that most people hadn't heard of.
coldwarconversations.com/episo
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The WW2 Podcast · Anthropoid: Assassination of Reinhard HeydrichI talk with Russell Phillips about Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, and the massacre and destruction of the village of Lidice.

A few years later in 2021, I had a wide-ranging talk with Henry Hyde of Battlechat. We discussed my books, , , and a tank game that I had as a kid in the 1970s.

In the same month I had a much more focused chat with Angus at the WW2 Podcast, when we talked about the Madagascar campaign.
ww2podcast.com/ww2-podcast/143
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The WW2 Podcast · 143 - The Battle for MadagascarWhen France capitulated in 1940 and the Vichy government came to power many of the French colonial possessions remained loyal to the new regime. The same

Next up are two appearances on the WW2 TV YouTube channel. The first was about Lidice and the North Staffordshire miners. This was part of a week focusing on atrocities, but this story at least had a relatively happy ending.
youtube.com/live/nCvqmzlYHhk

My second time on WW2 TV was to discuss Operation Ironclad, the initial part of the Madagascar campaign, where the Allies captured the port of Diego Suarez and the northern part of the island.
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Earlier this year I discovered the Totally Tanked podcast. In September Rob and John invited me on to be interviewed for their half-time slot. Naturally, the focus of this one was on tanks and AFVs, although we covered other subjects as well.
youtube.com/watch?v=H6AoEsSrGe
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