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DZ Season 054 Part 01. How a Dead Man Tricked the Germans and Conquered Sicily for the Allies. First and Final Part.
Yesterday, upon the stair,I met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish he'd go away...
That poem was inspired by the real story of a haunting by a ghost supposedly seen on the stairs of a house in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada.
In 1899 American poet, Hughes Mearns wrote that poem, the words I just read to you. It ended up in a song and then a play. In the 1930’s it was given a make-over and became a popular song. It’s appropriate for this programme because I’m going to tell you about a man who wasn’t there, and he made a huge contribution to the victory over Hitler. Unusually this hero was dead before he did what he did. But he wasn’t a ghost, he was a cadaver.
Tag words: Hughes Mearns; Adolf Hitler; cadaver; Captain (Acting Major) William Martin; Royal Marines; Ian Fleming; James Bond; 007; World War II; Rear Admiral John Godfrey; Royal Naval Intelligence Division; Trout Memo; A Suggestion (not a very nice one); corpse; Winston Churchill; Operation Mincemeat; Operation Barclay; John Glyndwyr; Michael Glydwyr; John Melville; HMS Dasher; Lieutenant Commander Mark Hill; rat poison; DNA; Charles Chalmondeley; Ewen Montagu; MI5; Jean Leslie; Ronnie Reed; Lloyd’s Bank; “Jock” Horsfall; Aston Martins; HMS Seraph; Huelva; Lieutenant Commander (future Admiral) Jewell; Psalm 39; Mae West life jacket; Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Nye; General Sir Harold Alexander; Adolf Clauss; German spy; General Franco; Nazis; Karl-Erich Kühlenthal; Abwehr; Operation Husky; CIGS; Chief of the Imperial General Staff; Operation Brimstone; Bletchley Park; Führer; The Man Who Never Was; starring Clifton Webb; Gloria Graham; Stephen Boyd; Operation Mincemeat; Colin Firth; Matthew McFadyen; Kelly Macdonald;
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By Paul FordyceYesterday, upon the stair,I met a man who wasn't thereHe wasn't there again todayI wish, I wish he'd go away...
That poem was inspired by the real story of a haunting by a ghost supposedly seen on the stairs of a house in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada.
In 1899 American poet, Hughes Mearns wrote that poem, the words I just read to you. It ended up in a song and then a play. In the 1930’s it was given a make-over and became a popular song. It’s appropriate for this programme because I’m going to tell you about a man who wasn’t there, and he made a huge contribution to the victory over Hitler. Unusually this hero was dead before he did what he did. But he wasn’t a ghost, he was a cadaver.
Tag words: Hughes Mearns; Adolf Hitler; cadaver; Captain (Acting Major) William Martin; Royal Marines; Ian Fleming; James Bond; 007; World War II; Rear Admiral John Godfrey; Royal Naval Intelligence Division; Trout Memo; A Suggestion (not a very nice one); corpse; Winston Churchill; Operation Mincemeat; Operation Barclay; John Glyndwyr; Michael Glydwyr; John Melville; HMS Dasher; Lieutenant Commander Mark Hill; rat poison; DNA; Charles Chalmondeley; Ewen Montagu; MI5; Jean Leslie; Ronnie Reed; Lloyd’s Bank; “Jock” Horsfall; Aston Martins; HMS Seraph; Huelva; Lieutenant Commander (future Admiral) Jewell; Psalm 39; Mae West life jacket; Lieutenant-General Sir Archibald Nye; General Sir Harold Alexander; Adolf Clauss; German spy; General Franco; Nazis; Karl-Erich Kühlenthal; Abwehr; Operation Husky; CIGS; Chief of the Imperial General Staff; Operation Brimstone; Bletchley Park; Führer; The Man Who Never Was; starring Clifton Webb; Gloria Graham; Stephen Boyd; Operation Mincemeat; Colin Firth; Matthew McFadyen; Kelly Macdonald;