For their fourth episode, the interns discuss the topic of Prisoners of War (POWs). Joseph unveils the research which he and the team at Museum of Cornish Life have uncovered on enemy POWs, both German and Italian, who were interned in Cornwall. Meanwhile, Charlotte shares the story of Gerald Cecil Williams, known as ‘Toot’s’, a Cornish-born senior British officer who was captured during the North African Campaign and spent three years as a POW in Italy, Czechoslovakia and Germany.

This podcast series is brought to you in partnership with Bodmin Keep as part of a national project developed by the Imperial War Museum (IWM). (Episode cover image courtesy of The Archives and Cornish Studies Service, Kresen Kernow [Ref No: corn01170]. Italian prisoners photographed at a social event with local Cornish ladies)