Episodes

  • 38: Episode 38: Alix and Brenda Hale

    38: Episode 38: Alix and Brenda Hale
    Dec 20 2024
    In a special Christmas edition of our General Talk podcast, host Harry Bucknall chats to our ambassadors, Brenda Hale OBE, and her daughter Alix.
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    28 mins
  • 37: Episode 37: Army Apprentices Part 2

    37: Episode 37: Army Apprentices Part 2
    Jul 31 2024
    July’s edition of General Talk is the second of two episodes looking at the Army Apprenticeship Programme.
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    47 mins
  • 36: Episode 36: Army Apprentices Part 1

    36: Episode 36: Army Apprentices Part 1
    Jul 4 2024
    Harry Bucknall, the host of our General Talk podcast, visits Marchwood Port, Southampton and learns about the unique maritime nature of the privates’ roles as trainee Port Operators and the transferable skills, and civilian qualifications they are gaining as apprentices.
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    28 mins
  • 35: Episode 35: Lt Gen Tom Copinger-Symes

    35: Episode 35: Lt Gen Tom Copinger-Symes
    Apr 25 2024
    Host Harry Bucknall talks to Lieutenant General Tom Copinger-Symes CBE, Deputy Commander UK Strategic Command.
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    30 mins
  • 34: Episode 34: Coldstream Guards Sarajevo 1994

    34: Episode 34: Coldstream Guards Sarajevo 1994
    Mar 20 2024
    In this edition of our General Talk podcast, host Harry Bucknall and guests remember the Band of the Coldstream Guards playing for peace in Sarajevo 30 years ago.
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    33 mins
  • 33: Episode 33: Daz Keelor

    33: Episode 33: Daz Keelor
    Feb 26 2024
    Daz Keelor, former soldier and Cornwall veterans’ welfare campaigner, looks back on his Army career, his love of rugby and the RAOC’s amalgamation into the Royal Logistic Corps in the early 1990s. 
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    28 mins
  • 32: Episode 32: Anthony Loyd

    32: Episode 32: Anthony Loyd
    Jan 10 2024
    Harry Bucknall talks to Anthony Loyd, The Times’ senior foreign correspondent, about reporting wars and conflicts.
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    45 mins
  • 31: Episode 31: Sir Lindsay Hoyle

    31: Episode 31: Sir Lindsay Hoyle
    Dec 12 2023
    In this Christmas edition of our General Talk podcast, host Harry Bucknall talks to the Right Honourable Sir Lindsay Hoyle MP, Speaker of the House of Commons, about life in politics.
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    32 mins