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Eddie Mair | 10:48 UK time, Friday, 6 November 2009

After this piece on Broadcasting House, iPM has had a big response from listeners, passing on their wartime correspondence.

We're busy putting together tomorrow's programme, and we're lucky to have the likes of Bill Paterson to read some of the letters for us. Bill just popped over and said hello. Nice man. Here he is as Mr Meagles in Little Dorrit. billpaterson.JPG

It really would be worth your while podcasting tomorrow's programme. Details of how to do that are here.

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  • 1. At 11:49am on 06 Nov 2009, Big Sister wrote:

    He's always struck me as a lovely guy (Bill P, I mean). Can you persuade him to blog, Eddie? :o)

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  • 2. At 11:58am on 06 Nov 2009, eddiemair wrote:

    If only I'd thought at the time!

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  • 3. At 12:45pm on 06 Nov 2009, Big Sister wrote:

    Ah, life is full of 'if only's, isn't it, Eddie? ;o)

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  • 4. At 12:56pm on 06 Nov 2009, SproutGhost wrote:

    Yeah, like 'if only' this Blog would work properly!



    :-p

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  • 5. At 1:10pm on 06 Nov 2009, Frances O wrote:

    True, Sprouty. So far I've only had one 404, so perhaps things are improving. What a week it's been...

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  • 6. At 1:22pm on 06 Nov 2009, Fearless Fred wrote:

    A working blog, Sprouty? Now that's a nice dream ;-p

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  • 7. At 5:45pm on 06 Nov 2009, Lady Sue wrote:

    I was in tears listening to the letter of 19-year-old Cyrus Thatcher being read out on BH and hearing his brave mother's comments. It was one of the most moving things I've ever heard and I hope will become an iconic symbol of this stupid, senseless war.

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  • 8. At 9:06pm on 06 Nov 2009, annasee wrote:

    Me too, Lady Sue. Crying into the breakfast dishes. Unbearably poignant. And his mother so dignified and logical and unblaming about the whole thing. I wanted to scream on her behalf. How many politicians' children are out there? Not many, if any, I'm betting. It's all very well saying "They shouldn't have joined the army if they didn't want to get killed" but from talking to the few soldiers I've met, it's the lack of a clear purpose to the fight that's sapping morale. When we were fighting Hitler, I don't think anyone was in any doubt of the reason. But this war is getting murkier and more complicated and more dangerous seemingly by the day, and more of the best of our young people are being killed. To what identifiable progress, or end?

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