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Send Tim a message about this episode Artie and Hudson are back in the garden, and this time the conversation turns to something rather less innocent. Tim has started noticing familiar faces, repeated encounters, strange questions and connections that seem just a little too convenient. Meanwhile, Petra is attracting interest of her own, including attention linked to Hereford and MI6. At first, it...

Send Tim a message about this episode Episode 10 of The Artie & Hudson Show takes Tim and Petra back onto the road, this time with a much longer journey ahead of them. A run carrying bearings for Ford in Istanbul introduces them to experienced driver Lars Nyberg, a man who knows the route, the borders and the paperwork exceptionally well. Perhaps a little too well. As Artie tells the story and...

Send Tim a message about this episode In Episode 4 of The Tim & Petra Show, Tim and Petra look back on one of the biggest moments of their lives, their wedding and the beginning of married life together. They remember Stephen’s speech, the childhood stories that had everyone laughing, the emotional moments that brought tears to the room, Tim’s infamous sauna story, and their beautiful first da...

Send Tim a message about this episode Artie and Hudson are back in the library, and this time they are trying to make sense of Tim and Petra’s idea of retirement. There is truck driving across Europe, rugby, Aikido, suspicious instructions, Petra noticing everything, and Tim using his famously dreadful foreign languages to surprisingly good effect. What begins as a quiet life in Sweden is starting...

Send Tim a message about this episode Artie and Hudson continue their journey through The Empty Return. After the wedding at Franklin Gardens, Tim’s comments about the scrum-half do not simply disappear. Once people realise he actually knows what he is talking about, the questions keep coming. What starts as one observation soon turns into positioning, timing, rugby experience and Tim doing what h...

Send Tim a message about this episode Artie and Hudson continue their journey through The Empty Return, this time with a wedding reception at Franklin Gardens. Simon, the Saints lock, is marrying Olivia, Johan and Marlin’s daughter, and what should be a straightforward family celebration soon drifts into rugby territory. Tim spots a couple of issues with the scrum-half, one of the players recognis...

Send Tim a message about this episode Tim and Petra look back at the years when their friendship became something much deeper. From school trouble and letters between England and Sweden, to rugby, family chaos, speaking Swedish just to wind Phoebe up, and the moment Tim began finding his direction again. Tim recalls leaving school behind, working on a farm, failing the Army entrance test and final...

Send Tim a message about this episode Artie and Hudson continue their journey through The Empty Return, and this time the title itself starts to make rather more sense. What could possibly go wrong with an empty truck? Quite a lot, as it turns out. From Old Heale Manor, Artie explains the next stage of Tim and Petra’s story while Hudson begins to realise that their supposedly straightforward retir...

Send Tim a message about this episode Artie and Hudson continue their journey through The Empty Return, as Tim and Petra’s supposedly quiet retirement begins to look rather less quiet by the minute. What started as a new life in Sweden is becoming something quite different. There are lorries, long journeys, unexpected complications and, inevitably, Tim finding himself involved in things that sensi...

Send Tim a message about this episode Tim and Petra sit down together to explain one of the central ideas behind The Parallel Six: the birth bond. For as long as either of them can remember, the other was already there in dreams, familiar before they ever properly met. When they finally did stand face to face, it did not feel like meeting a stranger. It felt like recognition. In this quiet convers...

Send Tim a message about this episode Artie and Hudson continue their journey through The Empty Return. Tim and Petra have settled in Ellös, Sweden, and Tim has finally retired from the Army. In theory, life should now be quieter. In practice, Tim was never going to be very good at doing nothing. Before long he is driving big Volvos across Europe, discovering that retirement looks suspiciously lik...

Send Tim a message about this episode Tim and Petra thought retirement in Sweden might finally mean a quieter life. They were wrong. In this episode of The Artie & Hudson Show, the boys begin exploring The Empty Return by Tim Heale, starting with the first seemingly innocent threads that begin to pull Tim and Petra back towards something far more complicated. A driving test, an unexpected oppo...

Send Tim a message about this episode Artie has just finished reading The Empty Return by Tim Heale. Hudson has questions. Lots of them. The same characters who appear in The Parallel Six return later in life, but this time the story takes a very different road. Find out more at timheale.uk Discover The Parallel Six series, Letters from Afghanistan and The Empty Return at https://timheale.uk . Dis...

Send Tim a message about this episode Noor Inayat Khan was one of the most remarkable secret agents of the Second World War. A descendant of Indian royalty, a musician and children's author, Noor might have seemed an unlikely candidate for clandestine warfare. Yet she volunteered to serve Britain, joined the Special Operations Executive and was sent into occupied France as a wireless operator...

Send Tim a message about this episode Join British Army veteran Tim Heale on a visit to Eden Camp Modern History Museum in North Yorkshire. Built during the Second World War to hold prisoners of war, Eden Camp began with the arrival of Italian prisoners before later housing German POWs. Today, its original huts preserve the sights, sounds and stories of wartime Britain—from life on the Home Front...

Send Tim a message about this episode Odette Sansom’s story is one of extraordinary courage, endurance and survival. In this episode of Stories Behind the Pages , I look at the remarkable true story of Odette Sansom , one of the most famous women to serve with Britain’s Special Operations Executive during the Second World War . Sent into occupied France, Odette worked alongside Peter Churchill as...

Send Tim a message about this episode Violette Szabo was a young mother who volunteered to serve with the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War. Sent behind enemy lines into occupied France, she displayed extraordinary courage before being captured and eventually executed at Ravensbrück concentration camp. In this episode of Stories Behind the Pages, I look at R. J. Minney’s boo...

Send Tim a message about this episode Colditz Castle was intended to hold Allied officers who had repeatedly attempted to escape. Instead, it brought together some of the most determined and inventive prisoners of war in Europe. In this episode of Stories Behind the Pages, I explore two remarkable firsthand accounts: 📚 The Colditz Story by P. R. Reid   📚 They Have Their Exits by Airey Neave I al...

Send Tim a message about this episode This week on Stories Behind the Pages , Tim explores The Password Is Courage by John Castle. The book tells the extraordinary true story of Sergeant Major Charles Coward, one of Britain's most remarkable prisoners of war during the Second World War. Captured in France in 1940, Coward became renowned for his daring escape attempts, fearless resistance to h...

Send Tim a message about this episode This week on Stories Behind the Pages , Tim explores The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill. Most people know the classic 1963 film starring Steve McQueen, but the real story began in the prisoner-of-war camp at Stalag Luft III. Written by former RAF prisoner Paul Brickhill, the book tells the extraordinary true story of the Allied airmen who spent months secretly...

Send Tim a message about this episode Welcome to my official YouTube channel. I'm Tim Heale, author of The Parallel Six series and Letters from Afghanistan, broadcaster, military historian and former British Army soldier. Here you'll find: Stories behind my books Military history features Broadcasting highlights Writing updates Interviews and conversations Visit my website: https://timhe...

Send Tim a message about this episode Many people know The Wooden Horse as one of Britain's greatest Second World War films, but the real story is even more remarkable. In this episode of Stories Behind the Pages , Tim Heale explores Eric Williams' extraordinary memoir of life inside Stalag Luft III and the ingenious escape that inspired the 1950 film. Discover how three RAF officers, ai...

Send Tim a message about this episode Stories Behind the Pages – We Die Alone Some stories stay with you long after you've turned the final page. In this first episode of Stories Behind the Pages , Tim Heale explores the remarkable true story of Norwegian resistance fighter Jan Baalsrud , whose extraordinary escape through the frozen mountains of occupied Norway became one of the greatest sur...

Send Tim a message about this episode Welcome to the official website of Tim Heale. In this short introduction, I explain what you'll find, from my books and broadcasting to military history, travels and The Tim Heale Dispatch. Visit https://timheale.uk for more. Discover The Parallel Six series, Letters from Afghanistan and The Empty Return at https://timheale.uk . Discover Tim Heale’s books...

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