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We are a slightly mad, always fun podcast bringing you all the History you love and a lot that you didn‘t know you‘d love until you heard it here! Recommended by BBC Radio, and presented by acclaimed historian Alexandra Churchill, with Alina Nowobilska, Chris Sams and the rest of the awesome team.
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Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Hedge-Hopping with Matt Bone: Flight 19 with David O’Keefe
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
Sunday Dec 31, 2023
On December 5 1945, a flight of 5 TBM Avengers on a training flight disappeared. In the ensuing search within what has become known as The Bermuda Triangle, a Martin Mariner search aircraft also disappeared. The disappearance has captived conspiracy nuts and filmmakers for over 80-years. Historian David O'Keefe has been hot on the trail of Flight 19 and joins Boney to discuss the Hunt for Flight 19.
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Thursday Aug 12, 2021
History Hack: Hedge-Hopping with Matt Bone
Thursday Aug 12, 2021
Thursday Aug 12, 2021
Today's Hedge Hopping sortie sees Matt sit down with Canadian historian Anne Gafiuk. Anne is the creator of three remarkable websites that record the stories of Canadians who left home to fight a war thousands of miles away. Anne's work focuses on the human stories that can be lost to time and they have a wide-ranging conversation about the journey that lead to Anne becoming a historian and meeting Canadian Typhoon pilot, Harry Hardy DFC.
The projects discussed in the podcast, The WW2 Canadian Women's Project, The Ottawa Memorial Project and The Typhoon Project are linked below, as well as the Bomber Command Museum in Nanton Alberta, where you can buy Anne's books.
https://www.wwiicdnwomensproject.org/
http://www.ottawamemorialproject.org/
https://thetyphoonproject.org/
https://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/
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Thursday Jan 07, 2021
#322 History Hack: Hedge-Hopping with Matt Bone
Thursday Jan 07, 2021
Thursday Jan 07, 2021
In his monthly instalment, Matt Bone is joined by historian Mike Bechthold to discuss the Battle of Bardia.
Thursday Mar 04, 2021
#378 History Hack: Hedge-Hopping with Matt Bone
Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Matt is joined by Jon Bernstein to talk all things Jugs. We promise there is only one stupid joke about the name...
Thursday Mar 18, 2021
#394 History Hack: Hedge-Hopping with Matt Bone
Thursday Mar 18, 2021
Thursday Mar 18, 2021
Were the Allies' best Airborne troops really dropped on D-Day by the worst trained crews? Matt is joined by historian Adam Berry and the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight's Dakota pilot Flt Lt Seb Davey to look at the men and machines of the IX Troop Carrier Command.
Thursday Apr 01, 2021
#409 History Hack: Hedge-Hopping with Matt Bone
Thursday Apr 01, 2021
Thursday Apr 01, 2021
Headlines for the Korean air war would be grabbed by Sabres and MiGs, but the reality would be much closer to WW2. Michael Napier joins us to discuss his new book and the similarities with what had gone before.
Saturday Apr 17, 2021
History Hack: Hedge-Hopping with Matt Bone
Saturday Apr 17, 2021
Saturday Apr 17, 2021
Author Chris Goss joins Matt to discuss the complexities of research the Luftwaffe
Sunday Jun 06, 2021
History Hack: Hedge-Hopping with Matt Bone
Sunday Jun 06, 2021
Sunday Jun 06, 2021
The C-47 was the workhorse of the Second World War and a D-Day (and everywhere else) veteran is nearing completion of a lengthy restoration to flight in Coventry. Matt takes Hedge Hopping on the road to meet up with Charlie Walker and find out the last on the exciting restoration of Night Fight. Be warned, there is a lot of riveting nose in this episode. Boney makes no apologies for this, there is an aircraft to finish!
Learn more about Night Fright at https://www.night-fright.com/
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Thursday Jul 08, 2021
History Hack: Hedge-Hopping with Matt Bone
Thursday Jul 08, 2021
Thursday Jul 08, 2021
Hedge Hopping heads East and West all at the same time as Matt is joined by the Pima Air and Space Museum's very own Scott Marchand to discuss the incredible story of the Ilyushin IL-2 Shturmovik, the Flying Tank of the Eastern Front, and we delve into the tale of how IL-2M 5612 went from a frozen outside St Petersburg and ended up in Tuscon, Arizona.
Learn more about the amazing Pima Air and Space Museum at https://pimaair.org/
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Thursday Sep 09, 2021
Hedge-Hopping with Matt Bone - The Pathfinders with Will Iredale
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
Thursday Sep 09, 2021
The birth of The Pathfinder Force would revolutionise Bomber Command’s war, but who were the people behind it and who was Don Bennett, the trailblazing inter-war aviator that Arthur Harris appointed to lead the new Target Finding Force, and then undermined him at every turn?
In his new book, The Pathfinders, author Will Iredale looks at the Pathfinder Force and at the men and women who made the PFF’s moto, “We Guide to Strike”, so terrifyingly effective.
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