In this latest edition of The Oldie podcast, Blandford Forum’s leading travel writer and my good friend Harry Bucknall is joined by General Sir Mike Jackson to discuss the events of the Kreipe kidnap which is approaching its 80th anniversary. The podcast also includes comments from Paddy as he recalled the events in subsequent interviews.

As it says in The Oldie:

In this edition of The Oldie Podcast, marking the 80th anniversary of one of the most daring SOE operations of the Second World War, the kidnap of Major General Heinrich Kreipe by the Greek Andartes led by Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, writer Harry Bucknall and General Sir Michael Jackson, Chief of the General Staff 2003 – 2006, discuss the challenges, achievements and legacy of one of the most notable episodes of World War Two – an escapade of Elizabethan proportion, immortalised by W Stanley “Billy” Moss, Leigh Fermor’s second in command, in his 1950 book, Ill Met by Moonlight which later, was made into a popular film starring Dirk Bogarde.

Listen to the podcast here