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Today’s family stories include tales of an Irishman in the British Army, the last days of fighting in Europe and the extraordinary experience of a Kiwi in the Solomon Islands.Family Stories runs every Sunday, telling your stories from the Second World War.A Goalhanger Films productionProduced by Joey McCarthy and Robin Scott-ElliotExec Producer: Tony PastorTwitter: #WeHaveWays @WeHaveWaysPodWebsite: www.wehavewayspod.comEmail: wehavewayspodcast@gmail.com

It was the war movie that won five Oscars and changed the genre forever, but does the history of 'Saving Private Ryan' hold up?Al Murray, James Holland and John McManus talk about what Spielberg got right with his Second War epic.A Goalhanger Films ProductionProduced by Joey McCarthyExec Producer: Tony PastorTwitter: #WeHaveWays @WeHaveWaysPodWebsite: wehavewayspod.comEmail: wehavewayspod@gmail.com

“These men of mine must never know how afraid I really am,Help me lead them in the fight so they will say: 'He was a man'."James Hollands explains in detail his latest Second World War obsession, The Battle of Ortona, doing so from the site of the battleground itself.A Goalhanger Films ProductionProduced by Vasco AndradeExec Producer: Tony PastorTwitter: #WeHaveWays @WeHaveWaysPodWebsite: wehavewayspod.comEmail: wehavewayspod@gmail.com

In the second part of our look at Operation Sea Lion, Al and James discuss Paddy Griffith’s 1974 wargame where high ranking officials from both the Allied and Axis sides met at Sandhurst to find out what might have happened had Nazi Germany actually launched the operation back in 1940.A Goalhanger Films ProductionProduced by Harry LinekerExec Producer: Tony PastorTwitter: #WeHaveWays @WeHaveWaysPodWebsite: wehavewayspod.com Email: wehavewayspod@gmail.com

Today’s family stories include the morale-raising tale of one of the world's best-selling authors, protecting the crown jewels, the battle of the Pacific and the struggle for survival in a POW campFamily Stories will run for the next ten weeks on Sunday mornings. A Goalhanger Films productionProduced by Joey McCarthy and Robin Scott-ElliotExec Producer: Tony PastorTwitter: #WeHaveWays @WeHaveWaysPodWebsite: www.wehavewayspod.comEmail: wehavewayspodcast@gmail.com

In the final (for now...) instalment of our Guadalcanal series, John McManus explains how the US Marines found victory in Guadalcanal - and the fallout after.A Goalhanger Films ProductionProduced by Joey McCarthyExec Producer: Tony PastorTwitter: #WeHaveWays @WeHaveWaysPodWebsite: wehavewayspod.comEmail: wehavewayspod@gmail.com