We Happy Few 506 The Podcast

Send us Fan Mail In this weeks episode Matt hosts a round table with the focus on the battle at Peleliu with an esteem line up that includes Henry Sledge (son of E.B Sledge, who wrote 'With the Old Breed' and Historian, author and Podcast Host with Whats The Scuttlebutt), US Marine and Vietnam veteran and author of Last Man Standing Dick Camp, Garrett Shetrawski, who is currently writing...

Send us Fan Mail In this weeks episode, Matthew talks with Ken and Ericka from model figurine company W.Britain. If you are one of our Patreons or was part of our Battlefield Tour to Bastogne recently, you will remember that we offered an exclusively priced 101st Airborne Medic from Winter 1944/45 that was based on the real-life Doc Roe.  Well we have the team behind that figure and more on with a...

Send us Fan Mail In this weeks episode, Matt and Doug chat with author of numerous books on the 101st Airborne in World War 2 such as Tonight We Die As Men and Sent By The Iron Sky and more and has now moved on to following them in the Vietnam with his new book Sign Here for Sacrifice, Ian Gardner. His new book is released on the 8th February and available from most book shops. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In this weeks episode catch up with Matt and Doug as they chat about We Happy Few 506's latest battlefield tour and a little on how we made it happen and the logistical extremes (5 hour round trip to Brussels) that we went to get Shane and Lucie back together for the first time in over 20 years and in Bastogne, which was the setting for their episode in the show. Support the...

Send us Fan Mail Catch up with Matt and Doug before we go on our 3rd Battlefield Tour next week where the guys chat about various things, but also where Doug  one of the last ones before Doug takes some time away co-hosting with Matt to focus on himself. We will try to record one in Bastogne for you too. If you have any messages for Doug, send them to us via our social media platforms and we will...

Send us Fan Mail In this weeks episode the boys chat with an old drama school friend of Matt's, actor Rod Hallett who's credits include Outlander, The Last Kingdom, The Basterd Executioner, Terra Nova and and Marvel movie Ant Man along with plenty more. They reminisce and talk about Rod's career and about the highs and lows as well as the dead cert credits British actors have on the...

Send us Fan Mail In this weeks episode Matt and Doug have a quick catch up and Doug tells us about an operation he recently had, something that a lot of men are very self conscious of doing / discussing and hopes this helps break down some of the barriers. But also, they speak with former member of the SAS, now film maker and author Tom Petch where they discuss his fantastic new book Speed. Aggres...

Send us Fan Mail Catch up with Matt and Doug with our first podcast of the year. There is a wide range of things spoken about here with the passing of Pele and the holiday season having just passed us by. If you ever need to talk to anyone and you don't having anyone close immediately available, click on the link below to see what is available  and know that you are not alone. https://www.min...

Send us Fan Mail Tune in a little earlier with Matt and Doug as they catch up on what they got up to over this festive season. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail WHF - Xmas Pod with Matt and Doug.mp3 Tune in as Matt and Doug catch up and chat Christmas. We thank you for supporting us on this journey and we wish you happy holidays and a happy new year! Currahee! Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In this weeks episode Matt and Doug chat with fellow Band of Brothers alumni Nick Aaron aka Popeye Wynn, who you can see at the moment on the BBC show The English starring Emily Blunt. The boy chat about his time on the show, with juggling family life during Covid as well as his band the Pilots. They chat about various things, including Richard Attenborough and Nicks incredible co...

Send us Fan Mail In this weeks episode, Matt and Doug chat about growing up in the 80s and their favorite and the worst films made during that time. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail This week the boys catch up with each other and Doug drum lessons and his upset stomach but our guest is something a little different. We have comedian Collin Chamberlin, who put a story on Instagram about visiting his sister and her constant watching of that hit TV show....Band of Brothers, so we had to have him on and find out a little bit more about him.  (Shout out to his sist...

Send us Fan Mail Catch up with on this weeks episode with Matt and Doug, where the boys delve a little bit into their personal lives and struggles. We have another Battlefield Tour in January and all top tier Patreons are eligible for a 15% discount. If you wish to take advantage of this, please click on the link below and subscribe. https://www.patreon.com/WeHappyFew506 Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In tonight's episode we speak with Doug Cockle who portrayed Father John Maloney in Band of Brothers and who has built up a career in voice work, most notably the video game The Witcher. During the show, Doug C, drops a bombshell on the boys that he was there for a lot of their auditions during the casting process. If you wish to subscribe to our Patreon, which has various be...

Send us Fan Mail In this weeks episode we have the wonderful Billy Budd, a Royal Marine veteran of the Falklands conflict and Band of Brothers military advisor. We bumped into Billy last weekend in Liege of all places, where we were based out of for our Battle of the Bulge and we didn't stop laughing. We talk with Billy about his time on Band of Brothers and delve into his journey in becoming...

Send us Fan Mail For this week episode, we catch up with Matt and Doug who talk about their Top 5 Best and Worst War Films / TV shows, Matt has some things he wants to get off his chest and how was Doug's week away in Spain with Band of Brothers alumni Alex Sabga with their motorbikes. If you wish to join our Patreon, click on the link below, with many benefits including entry to our Pacific...

Send us Fan Mail This week we have Instagram sensation Sarah The History Chick join us for a chat with Matt and Doug. Find out more about her as they delve into what gave her the bug for the love of history and how she has built a fantastic social media following in such a short space of time. Sarah recently joined the WHF team and we have seen an immediate impact. She is that good! If you wish to...

Send us Fan Mail On this weeks episode Doug and Matt speak with fellow Band of Brothers alumni as James 'Mo' Alley, as well as appearing the film The Lost Battalion and Rise of the Foot Soldier, as well as other productions and how close he was to getting the role of an iconic movie character. George talks to us about his career and his 'Nearly' stories and his life living in B...

Send us Fan Mail In this weeks episode Matthew and Doug talk with fellow Band of Brothers alumni Peter McCabe who played Don Hoobler. They talk about his visit to Bastogne and the Bois Jacques where Hoobler died in 1945 and coming into contact with someone who had just watched that episode and didn't recognise Peter. We also chat with how he got into acting and what he's been up to since...

Send us Fan Mail Matt and Doug sit down with Band of Brothers actor Robin Laing, who portrayed Edward 'Babe' Heffron in the show and talk about his career and what he wanted to do by nearly getting into drama school but ending up in a traveling production of a hit British movie and tells us that he has 3 Birminghams! Find out more by tuning in. We are now on Patreon and please subscribe...

Send us Fan Mail Where do we start? Well, this is the revamped new We Happy Few 506 podcast....We Happy Few 506 The Nearly Men podcast with your hosts Matthew Leitch and Doug Allen, who you may recognize from the hit TV show Band of Brothers with producer Leighton chipping in now and again. We nearly had Robin Laing on as our first guest but sadly missed it so Matt and Doug talk stories and B-Movi...

Send us Fan Mail In this weeks episode, we speak with Jon from the Warbird Coffee Company and Jon and his business partner, author, Adam, are wanting to do with helping preserve WW2 aircraft through sales of their coffee and we also delve into Jon's YouTube channel WW2 Wayfinder, where he explores various locations around Europe and its link to WW2 History. Check out some fantastic coffee and...

Send us Fan Mail In this weeks episode, the We Happy Few 506 team talk with military history author Stephen C. Devito and his book Fighting with The Filthy Thirteen, which he co-authored with Jack Womer, who was part of them in World War 2 and fought with them through Normandy, Operation Market Garden, Battle of the Bulge and through to the end of the war. Stephen talks to us about how he wanted t...

Send us Fan Mail In this weeks episode, the We Happy Few 506 team talk with Ben Mayne from Leger Battlefield Tours, who we are very lucky to be working with later this year in having no less than 3 members of the cast of Band of Brothers join their tour in October in visiting Easy Company sites where the Battle of the Bulge took place. Ben also tells us about how he became a tour guide and how his...