The Battle of the River Plate

Today, Rob and Duncan are off to Argentina, a strange, exotic land where the only thing they talk about more than Lionel Messi, is the 1956 movie The Battle of the River Plate (known to our American listeners as Pursuit of the Graf Spee). Is this the only film in history where battleships are given full acting credits? Does it have the nicest of all the Nazis? And – crucially – is this the operation that changed the course of the war?

Presented by Robert Hutton and Duncan Weldon.

Executive produced by Nick Hilton.

Edited by Ewan Cameron for Podot.

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