ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Discover The Lowlander, the daily service newsletter printed for men of the 52nd Lowland Division during the Second World War. Andy Aitcheson and Merryn Walters share the best of each week's editions - from politics and jottings from home, to the football results and news about the front lines from November 44 right through to May 1945.
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Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
36 minutes
English
United States
32 episodes
since Nov. 6, 2023
episodic
IN THIS PODCAST 🔗
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
See the foxholes, follow in the footsteps, spot the ‘spang’. This October, we’re following the route taken by the 4th Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers as they travelled from Ibbenburen to Bremen and on to Luneburg Heath .... and in this one-off special, you can hear just a small part of our…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Foxholes! Passports! Currywurst! In our final episode, we look at Walking with The Jocks - the battlefield tour we're taking to the Roer Triangle, this October 24, following in the footsteps of the 52nd Lowland Division. Thanks for listening, we hope you've enjoyed every episode as much as we…
Our penultimate episode, a VE Day special! The Lowlander reported on the surrender as it happened. Andy and Merryn dig in for almost the last time, to find out what the Jocks were reading, and what was happening this week in 1945...
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The Jocks are in Bremen, the dictators are a;; meeting a grisly end, and the 52nd Lowland Division is playing its part in wrapping up the Second World War. Andy and Merryn sift through the articles that made the headlines that made it into The Lowlander, this week in 1945 ...
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It's the big push to capture the centre of Bremen ... there are some reflections on a Fusilier ... a few words from a Prime Minister - and Jorrocks makes an appearance. Andy and Merryn dig into the issues of The Lowlander, this week in 1945.
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From Hitler's 50th Birthday to a 'Hello' for a new President, from happy days at the liberation of Stalag 357 to a few notes from a key witness to history - Hansard, the British government's record of parliamentary proceedings - Andy and Merryn dig into this week's editions of The Lowlander ...
Ho…
A busy week, building up to the advance on Bremen. Reports from the Far East, updates from the Italian Front - it's all go. Andy and Merryn dig into the Lowlander as the Allies head towards the end of the Second World War.
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April 1945, and the men of the 52nd Lowland Division are following in the footsteps of friends, countrymen and Romans - they're heading over the Teutoburger Wald. Andy and Merryn dig into the war diaries....
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Andy and Merryn address the fact that Roman emperor Julius Caesar created the Year of Confusion when he decided the year 46 B.C. was going to be 445 days long instead of 365 days long but luckily that wasn't popular.
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Operation VARSITY, Operation PLUNDER ... we're crossing the Rhine, and the men of the 52nd Lowland Division don't have much time to themselves. Still, Andy and Merryn dig into the pages of The Lowlander, to find out what's going on this week in 1945 ...
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