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The Tim Heale Podcast
by Tim Heale
Welcome to The Tim Heale Podcast, where history comes alive through the people who lived it, and every story is grounded in real experience. I'm Tim Heale, a British Army veteran, broadcaster, military historian and author of The Parallel Six series, with 44 years of service in the British Army, serving in Germany during the Cold War, Northern Ireland, the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq. Each episode brings together real military stories, forgotten history, travel, interviews, and personal experiences from over fifty years of adventure. From battlefields and memorials to regimental traditions, motorcycle journeys across Europe, and life behind the microphone, you'll hear the stories that rarely make it into the history books. Whether we're exploring Waterloo, Arnhem, Berlin, Normandy, Kosovo or the mountains of Morocco, every programme is built on careful research, first-hand experience, and a genuine passion for keeping his
Episodes
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Too Many Coincidences | The Artie & Hudson Show Episode 11
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,...
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The Road to Istanbul | The Artie & Hudson Show Episode 10
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...
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We Finally Said I Do! | The Tim & Petra Show Episode 4
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…
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Retirement, Apparently | The Artie & Hudson Show Episode 9
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...
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The Empty Return: Tim Gets Involved | Artie & Hudson Episode 8
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.…
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The Empty Return: A Wedding at Franklin Gardens | Artie & Hudson Episode 7
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...
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I Always Knew There Was Nothing Wrong With You | The Tim & Petra Show Ep. 2
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…
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The Empty Return: How Much Trouble Can an Empty Truck Cause? | Artie & Hudson Episode 6
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...
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The Empty Return: Retirement Gets Complicated | Artie & Hudson Episode 5
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…
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How we found the person we’d been dreaming of for years | Tim & Petra
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...
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The Empty Return: Retirement Was Never Going to Last | Artie & Hudson Episode 4
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....
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The Empty Return The Trouble Starts Quietly | Artie & Hudson
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...
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The Artie & Hudson Show: The Empty Return
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...
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Noor Inayat Khan: The SOE Agent Who Never Betrayed Her Secrets | Stories Behind the Pages
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…
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Eden Camp: Inside a WWII Prisoner of War Museum
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…
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Odette Sansom GC — Courage, Captivity and the SOE | Stories Behind the Pages
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...
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Carve Her Name with Pride – The True Story of Violette Szabo | Stories Behind the Pages
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...
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Colditz: The Books, the Escapes and the BBC Television Series
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…
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Stories Behind the Pages - The Password Is Courage
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…
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Stories Behind the Pages – The Great Escape
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...
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Welcome to Tim Heale | Author, Broadcaster & Military Historian
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...
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Stories Behind the Pages - The Wooden Horse
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…
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Stories Behind the Pages – We Die Alone
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...
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Welcome to the official website of Tim Heale
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,...
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The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 26 June 2026
Send Tim a message about this episode The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 26 June 2026 Fresh Alternative Music Discovery — Beyond the Mainstream Welcome to The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show — your destination for fresh sounds, rising talent, and incredible music you won’t hear on...
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The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 25 May 2026
Send Tim a message about this episode The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 25 May 2026 Fresh Alternative Music Discovery — Beyond the Mainstream Welcome to The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show — your destination for fresh sounds, rising talent, and incredible music you won’t hear on…
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The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 19 June 2026
Send Tim a message about this episode The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 19 June 2026 Fresh Alternative Music Discovery — Beyond the Mainstream Welcome to The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show — your destination for fresh sounds, rising talent, and incredible music you won’t hear on...
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The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show Wednesday 17 June 2026
Send Tim a message about this episode The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 17 June 2026 Fresh Alternative Music Discovery — Beyond the Mainstream Welcome to The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show — your destination for fresh sounds, rising talent, and incredible music you won’t hear on...
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The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show Tuesday 16 June 2026
Send Tim a message about this episode The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 16 June 2026 Fresh Alternative Music Discovery — Beyond the Mainstream Welcome to The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show — your destination for fresh sounds, rising talent, and incredible music you won’t hear on...
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The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show Monday 15 June 2026
Send Tim a message about this episode The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 15 June 2026 Fresh Alternative Music Discovery — Beyond the Mainstream Welcome to The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show — your destination for fresh sounds, rising talent, and incredible music you won’t hear on...
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The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 12 June 2026
Send Tim a message about this episode The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 12 June 2026 Fresh Alternative Music Discovery — Beyond the Mainstream Welcome to The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show — your destination for fresh sounds, rising talent, and incredible music you won’t hear on...
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The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 11 June 2026
Send Tim a message about this episode The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 11 June 2026 Fresh Alternative Music Discovery — Beyond the Mainstream Welcome to The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show — your destination for fresh sounds, rising talent, and incredible music you won’t hear on...
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The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 10 June 2026
Send Tim a message about this episode The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show Fresh Alternative Music Discovery — Beyond the Mainstream Welcome to The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show — your destination for fresh sounds, rising talent, and incredible music you won’t hear on the usual...
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The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 9 June 2026
Send Tim a message about this episode The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 9 June 2026 Fresh Alternative Music Discovery — Beyond the Mainstream Welcome to The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show — your destination for fresh sounds, rising talent, and incredible music you won’t hear on…
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The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 8 June 2026
Send Tim a message about this episode The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show Fresh Alternative Music Discovery — Beyond the Mainstream Welcome to The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show — your destination for fresh sounds, rising talent, and incredible music you won’t hear on the usual...
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The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 5 June 2026
Send Tim a message about this episode The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 5 June 2026 Fresh Alternative Music Discovery — Beyond the Mainstream Welcome to The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show — your destination for fresh sounds, rising talent, and incredible music you won’t hear on…
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The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 4 June 2026
Send Tim a message about this episode The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 4 June 2026 Fresh Alternative Music Discovery — Beyond the Mainstream Welcome to The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show — your destination for fresh sounds, rising talent, and incredible music you won’t hear on…
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The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 3 June 2026
Send Tim a message about this episode The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 3 June 2026 Fresh Alternative Music Discovery — Beyond the Mainstream Welcome to The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show — your destination for fresh sounds, rising talent, and incredible music you won’t hear on…
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The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 2 June 2026
Send Tim a message about this episode The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show Fresh Alternative Music Discovery — Beyond the Mainstream Welcome to The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show — your destination for fresh sounds, rising talent, and incredible music you won’t hear on the usual...
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The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 1 June 2026
Send Tim a message about this episode The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show Fresh Alternative Music Discovery — Beyond the Mainstream Welcome to The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show — your destination for fresh sounds, rising talent, and incredible music you won’t hear on the usual...
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The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 29 May 2026
Send Tim a message about this episode The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 29 May 2026 Fresh Alternative Music Discovery — Beyond the Mainstream Welcome to The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show — your destination for fresh sounds, rising talent, and incredible music you won’t hear on…
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The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 28 May 2026
Send Tim a message about this episode The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 28 May 2026 Fresh Alternative Music Discovery — Beyond the Mainstream Welcome to The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show — your destination for fresh sounds, rising talent, and incredible music you won’t hear on…
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The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 27 May 2026
Send Tim a message about this episode The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 27 May 2026 Fresh Alternative Music Discovery — Beyond the Mainstream Welcome to The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show — your destination for fresh sounds, rising talent, and incredible music you won’t hear on…
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The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 26 May 2026
Send Tim a message about this episode The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 26 May 2026 Fresh Alternative Music Discovery — Beyond the Mainstream Welcome to The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show — your destination for fresh sounds, rising talent, and incredible music you won’t hear on…
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The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 25 May 2026
Send Tim a message about this episode The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 25 May 2026 Fresh Alternative Music Discovery — Beyond the Mainstream Welcome to The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show — your destination for fresh sounds, rising talent, and incredible music you won’t hear on…
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The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 22 May 2026
Send Tim a message about this episode The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 22 May 2026 Fresh Alternative Music Discovery — Beyond the Mainstream Welcome to The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show — your destination for fresh sounds, rising talent, and incredible music you won’t hear on…
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The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 21 May 2026
Send Tim a message about this episode The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 21 May 2026 Fresh Alternative Music Discovery — Beyond the Mainstream Welcome to The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show — your destination for fresh sounds, rising talent, and incredible music you won’t hear on…
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The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 20 May 2026
Send Tim a message about this episode The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 20 May 2026 Fresh Alternative Music Discovery — Beyond the Mainstream Welcome to The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show — your destination for fresh sounds, rising talent, and incredible music you won’t hear on…
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The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 19 May 2026
Send Tim a message about this episode The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 19 May 2026 Fresh Alternative Music Discovery — Beyond the Mainstream Welcome to The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show — your destination for fresh sounds, rising talent, and incredible music you won’t hear on…
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The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 18 May 2026
Send Tim a message about this episode The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show 18 May 2026 Fresh Alternative Music Discovery — Beyond the Mainstream Welcome to The Tim Heale Alternative Music Radio Show — your destination for fresh sounds, rising talent, and incredible music you won’t hear on…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to The Tim Heale Podcast, where history comes alive through the people who lived it, and every story is grounded in real experience.
I'm Tim Heale, a British Army veteran, broadcaster, military historian and author of The Parallel Six series, with 44 years of service in the British Army, serving in Germany during the Cold War, Northern Ireland, the Balkans, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Each episode brings together real military stories, forgotten history, travel, interviews, and personal experiences from over fifty years of adventure. From battlefields and memorials to regimental traditions, motorcycle journeys across Europe, and life behind the microphone, you'll hear the stories that rarely make it into the history books.
Whether we're exploring Waterloo, Arnhem, Berlin, Normandy, Kosovo or the mountains of Morocco, every programme is built on careful research, first-hand experience, and a genuine passion for keeping his
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