Introducing: D-Day: The Tide Turns - Episode 1

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🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This is a taster episode of a brand-new podcast from the Noiser network. Host Paul McGann follows the real people involved in the D-Day landings. It’s 1944 and Europe is in the grip of the Nazi war machine. But on the shores of Great Britain, thousands of men and women are planning the great fightback. What will it take to turn the tide of World War 2? Search ‘D-Day: The Tide Turns’ in your podcast app and hit follow to get new episodes each Thursday. Or listen at noiser.com Episode 2 is live now on D-Day: The Tide Turns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi listeners. Today we wanted to bring you a preview of a brand new show from the Noiser Network.
0:05.6	It's called D-Day The Tide Turns. June the 6th marks 80 years since D-Day itself when the Allies landed in Normandy and pushed back against Hitler.
0:17.0	Hosted by Paul McGann, the series follows the soldiers on the
0:23.3	spies who landed from the air, the spies who gathered vital intel and the
0:25.6	commanders whose fateful decisions touched the lives of millions.
0:29.0	The show features contributions from expert historians and archive audio from those who were actually there on the ground at the time.
0:36.0	If you enjoy this Taster episode, search D-Day The Tide Turns in your podcast app and hit follow for new episodes each Thursday.
0:44.0	You'll find part two waiting for you now or listen at noiser.com.
0:50.0	It's New Year's Eve,
0:54.4	1943, a rough moonless night in the English channel.
0:59.8	We're just a few hundred feet off the coast of Nazi occupied France.
1:05.0	A small torpedo boat stealthily approaches the shore.
1:10.0	As the rain streams down, another barrage of waves buffets the craft drenching a small group of men on board.
1:19.0	Among them, a 24-year-old British captain, Logan Scott Bowden, and his trustee sergeant Bruce Obden Smith.
1:28.6	They're on a mission of the utmost importance.
1:33.0	Through the watery haze, the men make out a dark solid strip of land ahead,
1:38.0	a broad sandy beach.
1:41.0	This is as close as they dare take the boat.
1:45.0	They cut the engine.
1:49.0	Out of the darkness, faint voices and music are just about audible in the distance.
1:55.2	The Germans on land must be celebrating, preparing to welcome in the new year.
2:01.3	Hopefully that means their guard is down.
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