Merry Christmas from We Have Ways of Making You Talk. Over the next 12 days Al and James are reading extracts from some of their favourite books about the Second World War. Today James is reading an extract from Anthony

D-Day takes centre stage as Al Murray and James Holland discuss floating tanks, flamethrowers and the story of Omaha Beach.

Production of the most important aircraft in history did not always run smoothly. Al Murray and James Holland discuss the industrial challenges of producing the Spitfire; plus the boys ponder the likelihood of collaboration in the event of a successful

James Holland reads from Richard Flannagan’s “The Narrow Road to the Deep North”, a novel that tells the story of a far east prisoner of war during the construction of the Burma Railway.