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Tag Archives: Poland

The Burma Road: Churchill appeases Japan / A punk band, a writer and God end communism in Eastern Europe / Amelia Earhart’s disappearance

22 Monday Aug 2016

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Amelia Earhart, Burma Road, Churchill, Havel, On This Day, On this day in history, Poland, Pope John Paul II, Solidarity, This Day in History, This Month in History, Vaclav Havel

Why did Churchill appease the Japanese in 1940 and close the Burma Road?

How did a punk band, a writer and God end communism in Eastern Europe?

We look the great Amelia Earhart, whose aircraft disappeared over the Pacific on July 2nd 1937 – and now the hunt is back on to find her.

This episode was first broadcast on 2 July 2015 on Noreen Mir’s 1-2-3 Show, RTHK Radio 3. Click ‘Subscribe’ to receive future podcasts automatically (or see the This Month in History website). Each month, Paul Letters examines events from this month in history. Recorded at Radio Television Hong Kong Studios, Broadcast Drive, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Paul Letters is a historian, journalist, educator and novelist. See paulletters.com for more history, including a daily ‘On-This-Day-75-Years-Ago’ Twitter feed and photographs. Plus the novel that combines: the real history of the Allies’ first strike against Nazi Germany; Paul’s granny’s escape (as a teenager) from 1939 Poland to 1940 Paris to wartime London; the ‘Double-Cross System’, the Special Operations Executive and assassination in Prague (aChanceKill.com).

Podcast cover work by Gill Bertram.

https://paulletters.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/2015julyfullpodcast.mp3

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