Episodes

  • Fierce Ambition Pt 2 with Jennet Conant

    Fierce Ambition Pt 2 with Jennet Conant
    Sep 18 2024
    Jennet Conant returns to the podcast with her latest work, a spirited portrait of twentieth-century war correspondent Maggie Higgins and her tenacious fight to the top in a male-dominated profession.
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    59 mins
  • Fierce Ambition Pt 1 with Jennet Conant

    Fierce Ambition Pt 1 with Jennet Conant
    Sep 4 2024
    Jennet Conant is the New York Times best-selling author of Tuxedo Park, 109 East Palace, The Irregulars, The Great Secret, and the critically acclaimed Man of the Hour. She returns to Someone Talked! to discuss her latest work Fierce Ambition: The Life and Legend of War Correspondent Maggie Higgins.
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    57 mins
  • *RERELEASE* Black Snow and the B-29 with James Scott

    *RERELEASE* Black Snow and the B-29 with James Scott
    Aug 21 2024
    49 mins
  • 4,426 Souls and Counting: The Necrology Project Continues

    4,426 Souls and Counting: The Necrology Project Continues
    Aug 7 2024
    Eight decades after giving their lives in the cause of freedom, the National D-Day Memorial's necrology research team identified fifteen men who fell on D-Day. These additions and other updates bring the the number of names on the Memorial's wall to 4,426 - the most complete accounting of D-Day fallen in the world.
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    56 mins
  • D-Day + 80 Years: Reflections on a Milestone Commemoration

    D-Day + 80 Years: Reflections on a Milestone Commemoration
    Jul 17 2024
    Our hosts reflect on the 80th anniversary of D-Day commemorations in both Normandy, France and Bedford, Virginia.
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • *RERELEASE* Firebombing of Tokyo with James Scott

    *RERELEASE* Firebombing of Tokyo with James Scott
    Jul 3 2024
    50 mins
  • Sand and Steel Part 2 with Peter Caddick-Adams

    Sand and Steel Part 2 with Peter Caddick-Adams
    Jun 19 2024
    We wrap up our 80th anniversary commemoration month episodes with the return of Sand and Steel author Peter Caddick-Adams.

    Caddick–Adams was born in London in 1960 and educated at Shrewsbury School, Sandhurst and Wolverhampton University, where he gained First Class Honours in War Studies; he received his PhD from Cranfield University. He worked in the House of Commons, then taught at Oxford and Birmingham Universities before being appointed Lecturer in Military and Security Studies at the UK Defence Academy in 1998, and Lecturer in Air Power Studies at RAF Halton since 2012. Concurrently, he pursued a second career in the UK Regular and Reserve Forces, was commissioned in 1979 and joined the Reserves in 1985.He has extensive experience of various war zones, including the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. During 1996–7 he was the official NATO Historian in Bosnia, based in Sarajevo, and was also the UK Historian during the Iraq War of 2003.
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    1 hr
  • Sand and Steel Part 1 with Peter Caddick-Adams

    Sand and Steel Part 1 with Peter Caddick-Adams
    Jun 5 2024
    On the eve of the 80th anniversary of D-Day, our hosts are joined by renowned military historian Peter Caddick-Adams to discuss his 2019 book Sand and Steel.

    Caddick–Adams was born in London in 1960 and educated at Shrewsbury School, Sandhurst and Wolverhampton University, where he gained First Class Honours in War Studies; he received his PhD from Cranfield University. He worked in the House of Commons, then taught at Oxford and Birmingham Universities before being appointed Lecturer in Military and Security Studies at the UK Defence Academy in 1998, and Lecturer in Air Power Studies at RAF Halton since 2012. Concurrently, he pursued a second career in the UK Regular and Reserve Forces, was commissioned in 1979 and joined the Reserves in 1985.He has extensive experience of various war zones, including the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. During 1996–7 he was the official NATO Historian in Bosnia, based in Sarajevo, and was also the UK Historian during the Iraq War of 2003.
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    56 mins