Patrick Magee plays mouse to the cat of the Southern Irish police, acting on a tip-off from their colleagues in the North. He escapes back to Great Britain from Dublin and joins a new IRA unit planning a summer-long campaign targeting seaside resorts: more bombs in hotels and a new tactic - burying bombs on beaches. It will be the most concentrated wave of IRA attacks since the 1930s.Written and presented by Glenn PattersonSeries Producer: Owen McFadden
Story Consultant and Sound Design: Alan Hall
Producer: Lena Ferguson
Archive Producer: Fran Rowlatt McCormick
Production Co-Ordinator: Hollie Wallace
Composer: Mark McCambridge
Sound Engineer: Claire Marquess
Mixing Engineer: Mike Woolley
Patrick Magee archive courtesy of Peter Taylor and Whistledown ProductionsExecutive Producer Rachel HooperA Walk on Air production in association with Keo Films

Patrick Magee plays mouse to the cat of the Southern Irish police, acting on a tip-off from their colleagues in the North. He escapes back to Great Britain from Dublin and joins a new IRA unit planning a summer-long campaign targeting seaside resorts: more bombs in hotels and a new tactic - burying bombs on beaches. It will be the most concentrated wave of IRA attacks since the 1930s. Written and presented by Glenn Patterson Series Producer: Owen McFadden Story Consultant and Sound Design: Alan Hall Producer: Lena Ferguson Archive Producer: Fran Rowlatt McCormick Production Co-Ordinator: Hollie Wallace Composer: Mark McCambridge Sound Engineer: Claire Marquess Mixing Engineer: Mike Woolley Patrick Magee archive courtesy of Peter Taylor and Whistledown Productions Executive Producer Rachel Hooper A Walk on Air production in association with Keo Films

The Brighton Bomb: 7. Fight Them on the Beaches

In early December 1941, on the outskirts of London, a 14 year old boy is listening to the radio and is surprised as he hears about Japan’s attacks on the US Naval base at Pearl Harbor. But what happened hours afterwards is of great concern - Japan’s invasion and air strikes against key British colonies in South East Asia. In his living room in England, next to his map of Europe, the schoolboy puts up a second map of Asia and the Pacific. Over the next three and a half years he charts - on these two maps - the defeats and later victories against Japan, as well as the Nazis. Aged 98 - he speaks of how the faraway war on the Asian Front would end up involving members of his own family. From the creator and host of the multi award-winning Three Million and Partition Voices - the new series - The Second Map - tells the story of Britain’s war against Japan IN ww2. Marking the 80th anniversary of VJ Day we hear of how defeat turned to victory, epic battles in jungles, to one that played out on a tennis court and saved the British Empire. We may know about Pearl Harbour and how the war against Japan ended with the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But in popular memory what happened in between, and why Britain was fighting Japan on the Asian front, is less well-known. Even at the time the largest army of almost a million men, was known as the “forgotten army.” Yet it was a war that many thousands of Britons fought in, as well as hundreds of thousands of British colonial subjects.We hear remarkable testimonies from British, Indian and Japanese soldiers who were there, as well as former prisoners of war and civilian internees. And we speak to descendants across Britain who are uncovering a family member’s story of heroism, imprisonment, and survival.Creator, Writer and Presenter: Kavita Puri 
Series Producer: Ellie House
Script Editor: Ant Adeane
Sound Designer: James Beard
Series Editor: Matt Willis
Production Coordinators: Sabine Scherek, Maria Ogundele
 
Original music: Felix Taylor
Archive Curator: Tariq Hussain
Voice actors: Dai Tabuchi, Bhasker Patel 
Translators: Hannah Kilcoyne, Sumire Hori 
 
With thanks to Dr Diya Gupta, Dr Vikki Hawkins, Dr Peter Johnston, Professor Rana Mitter and Tejpal Singh Ralmill.

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In early December 1941, on the outskirts of London, a 14 year old boy is listening to the radio and is surprised as he hears about Japan’s attacks on the US Naval base at Pearl Harbor. But what happened hours afterwards is of great concern - Japan’s invasion and air strikes against key British colonies in South East Asia. In his living room in England, next to his map of Europe, the schoolboy puts up a second map of Asia and the Pacific. Over the next three and a half years he charts - on these two maps - the defeats and later victories against Japan, as well as the Nazis. Aged 98 - he speaks of how the faraway war on the Asian Front would end up involving members of his own family. From the creator and host of the multi award-winning Three Million and Partition Voices - the new series - The Second Map - tells the story of Britain’s war against Japan IN ww2. Marking the 80th anniversary of VJ Day we hear of how defeat turned to victory, epic battles in jungles, to one that played out on a tennis court and saved the British Empire. We may know about Pearl Harbour and how the war against Japan ended with the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But in popular memory what happened in between, and why Britain was fighting Japan on the Asian front, is less well-known. Even at the time the largest army of almost a million men, was known as the “forgotten army.” Yet it was a war that many thousands of Britons fought in, as well as hundreds of thousands of British colonial subjects. We hear remarkable testimonies from British, Indian and Japanese soldiers who were there, as well as former prisoners of war and civilian internees. And we speak to descendants across Britain who are uncovering a family member’s story of heroism, imprisonment, and survival. Creator, Writer and Presenter: Kavita Puri Series Producer: Ellie House Script Editor: Ant Adeane Sound Designer: James Beard Series Editor: Matt Willis Production Coordinators: Sabine Scherek, Maria Ogundele Original music: Felix Taylor Archive Curator: Tariq Hussain Voice actors: Dai Tabuchi, Bhasker Patel Translators: Hannah Kilcoyne, Sumire Hori With thanks to Dr Diya Gupta, Dr Vikki Hawkins, Dr Peter Johnston, Professor Rana Mitter and Tejpal Singh Ralmill.

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