Host: Benjamin Thompson
Welcome back to the Nature Podcast. This week, we’ll be hearing about atomic espionage during World War II…
Host: Nick Howe
And finding out more about the early Universe. I’m Nick Howe.
Host: Benjamin Thompson
And I’m Benjamin Thompson.
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I have taken occasion to speak to you tonight because we have reached one of the climacterics of the War.
Interviewer: Nick Howe
It’s June 1941, and Winston Churchill is addressing the people.
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At 4 o’clock this morning, Hitler attacked and invaded Russia.
Interviewer: Nick Howe
This would be the beginnings of an alliance between the UK and Russia, forged at the height of the Second World War.
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It follows therefore, that we shall give whatever help we can to Russia and to the Russian people. We shall appeal to all our friends and allies in every part of the world to take the same course and pursue it, as we shall, faithfully and steadfastly to the end. We have offered to the governments of…
