Ham & Jam - The WW2 British Airborne Podcast

🎙NEW EPISODE AVAILABLE....
It's the lads first road trip of the podcast. Andy takes Kev to his workplace at the Army Flying Museum for a tour and a chat with Susan Lyndsay, Museum Curator, and Henry Whitington, Museum Archivist, about the museum's history. Here's a snippet.
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The Welbike, the miniature Airborne motorbike. Our most recent guest, Dutch-born Jan Heitink, recounts a story about his grandfather featuring one of these vehicles in our latest episode - ARNHEM MEMORIES.
Available now on Spotify, Podbean, YouTube, Amazon Music, and Audible..
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AVAILABLE NOW....'Arnhem Memories'
In our latest episode we were joined by Dutch-born Jan Heitink, who recounts stories of his family's wartime experiences around the battle of Arnhem and growing up in its legacy. Here's a snippet..
Available on Spotify, Podbean, YouTube....
#Arnhem

🎙Andy and Kev land on another LZ , this time it's Arnhem. Jan Berend Heitink joins the lads for a pint to discuss his family's wartime experiences, what it's like growing up in The Netherlands with the Arnhem story, and what it means for the Dutch. Available on Spotify, YouTube...
#arnhem

The start of our podcast journey (well, almost) on our Arnhem trip one year ago, when Andy said to Kev "How do you fancy joining me on the relaunched Ham & Jam Podcast".......
#Arnhem80 #therestishistory #hamandjampodcast

Very interesting stuff, well worth a listen.

Endex.....Can't believe this was nearly a week ago! Such a great time at WHWF 2025 as part of the Glider Pilot Regiment Society...

🎙New Episode Available Now -
In the second of our Arnhem month episodes, we are joined by Niall Cherry to discuss the fortunes, and certainly misfortunes, of the 10th Parachute Battalion during the Battle.
Here's a sneak peek...

Finally....
@wehavewaysfest2025...

🎙NEW EPISODE AVAILABLE
In the first of our Arnhem series, Andy and Kev make another landing in Arnhem, but it's with Bart Steenkamer, a local Dutch battlefield tour guide who specializes in personalized tours, and talks about the Battle of Arnhem entirely from a tour guides perspective. 🍻
#Arnhem

🚨Dropping TOMORROW, part One of our Arnhem month episodes -
"Arnhem Battlefield : Walking The Ground " with Dutch battlefield guide Bart Steenkamer.....
#hamandjampodcast #arnhem

Although a little outside our remit for the podcast, this is a for a very worthy cause. Please take a look...
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To kick off our three-episode series commemorating the battle of Arnhem, we spoke with Bart Steenkamer, Arnhem resident and battlefield tour guide. This Episode drops on Thursday the 4th of September, supporters can listen now. Here's a sneak peak..
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Hope everyone is enjoying the Bank Holiday weekend....Andy certainly is! But remember everyone, dont drink and fly! 😉
Cheers! 🍻
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🎙 NEW EPISODE INCOMING FOR OUR BUYMEACOFFEE SUPPORTERS..
Available tomorrow, and exclusively a week early for our supporters, is the new episode - "Ever Glorious" : The life of Napier Crookenden DSO, 6 Airborne - With John Greenacre.
Take a listen to a snippet below...🍻

🎙🎬 NEW EPISODE AVAILABLE NOW.. "Maroon in Movies" - the lads are joined by Robbie & Matt from @fightingonfilm for a chat about British Airborne in WW2 films.We know what we rated the best, what do you think?Listen now on our buymeacoffee page or on Spotify, Podbean, YouTube, & Amazon Music.

"I'm sure the Dakota was parked around here somewhere Sar'nt Major.?"
The new episode "Maroon in Movies" with Matt and Robbie from @fightingonfilm.bsky.social drops tomorrow......🍻
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#theredberet

“You gave the film I’m in a score of what?” Do take a listen to our upcoming podcast episode "Maroon in Movies " with the lads from @fightingonfilm.bsky.social as we discuss the British Airborne on film. Drops on Thursday.
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Which one would you rate the highest? Find out what we thought when we hosted Matt and Robbie from @fightingonfilm.bsky.social to discuss "Maroon in the Movies."
Episode drops on Thursday on our buymeacoffee page.Also available on Spotify, Podbean, YouTube, Amazon Music, & Audible.
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Support us now for as little as £2.00 a month and help us produce more interesting, memorable, and entertaining episodes. Without your support, we couldn't do what we do!
You can find us at buymeacoffee.com/hamandjam.
cheers! 🍻
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Ham & Jam WW2 Brit Airborne Podcast is A WW2 History podcast covering the actions of British Airborne units. Living historians Andy and Kevin bring you a podcast exploring a 'coup de main’ into the history of Britain’s Airborne forces of the Second World War. We’ll go from Operation Freshman to Pegasus Bridg

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A great week was had by Andy and all at the Merville Battery Museum in June this year.
You can hear all about it on our episode-
"NORMANDY DEBRIEF?!" Available now on our buymeacoffee page (link in the comments), Spotify, Podbean, YouTube, Amazon Music and Audible.

🎙NEW EPISODE AVAILABLE NOW -"Mad about the Boy?" Part 2 - General F.A.M. Browning - Arnhem and Aftermath - Is his reputation a prisoner of the film A Bridge Too Far?
Available now on our buymeacoffe.com/hamandjam page.
Also available on Spotify, Podbean, YouTube, Amazon Music, and Audible.

🎙Hey listeners!
We are looking at having a LIVE STREAMING SESSION in the near future. We want to hear your suggestions for a theme for the session so we could potentially invite a special guest to join us. What do you guys think, would you be interested?
Cheers from Andy and Kev🍻

Here's some more photos from Andy's trip to Normandy in June. You can hear more on our special episode "NORMANDY DEBRIEF?!" On Spotify, Podbean, YouTube, Amazon Music, Audible, or wherever you listen to us! Cheers 🍻

"The Great Glider Gamble?"
On the 82nd anniversary of Op HUSKY, we chat with Mike Peters about Operation Ladbroke - 1st Airlanding Brigade's assault to capture the Ponte Grande Bridge. Out now on buymeacoffee/hamandjam, Spotify,Podbean,YouTube, Amazon Music & Audible.
@mikehistorian.bsky.social

COMING SOON..Another great recording session in the bag! As part of our 'Airborne Personalities' series we were joined by historian and author John Greenacre for a fascinating dive into the life of Napier Crookenden, Brigade Major of 6 Airlanding Brigade and then CO of the 9th Parachute Battalion.

In 1943, before there were Operations LADBROKE and FUSTIAN, there was Operation BEGGAR, or as the glider pilots called it, Operation "Turkey Buzzard"...
Available on..👇🏻
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Also on Spotify, Podbean, YouTube, Amazon Music
@mikehistorian.bsky.social

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Walking the ground, this time in Breville...
You can find out more in our latest episode-
"NORMANDY DEBRIEF?!" 👇🏻
buymeacoffee.com/hamandjam/new-episode-supporters-3773358
Also available on Spotify, Podbean,YouTube, Amazon Music and Audible.

It was absolutely great to record an episode of Ham and Jam with Matt and Robbie from FightingOnFilm yesterday. There's a clue to what we talked about in the picture.....😉