The A to Z of Wartime Song

🎵 Hosted by @tomcarradine & @lili_redman✨ Exploring iconic songs from the frontlines to the home front📜 History, harmony & heart from WWI to WWII

The A to Z of Wartime Song is a history podcast hosted by Tom Carradine and Lili Redman, with 36 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Tom Carradine and Lili Redman hosts The A to Z of Wartime Song, a history show with 36 episodes published.

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  Episode #8

  Schedule Update - Tom Sets Sail!

  May 14, 20262 minS2

  <p > Just a quick update from Lili and Tom on where the podcast is up to - and why there won't be any new episodes for a little while!<br /> <br /> Tom is heading off to sea for the London Theatre at Sea week aboard the Queen Mary 2, followed by a few days in New York. Lili meanwhile is performing this Sunday (17th May 2026) at International Bomber Command in Lincoln.  Here are all the the details:<br /> <br /> https://www.facebook.com/events/international-bomber-command-centre/the-crabapple-club-at-international-bomber-command-centre-lincoln/1212740987641227/<br /> <br /> https://internationalbcc.co.uk/ </p> <p > Normal service will resume before too long...

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  Episode #7

  Goodnight Sweetheart - Al Bowlly: A Voice That Could Make Itself Cry

  May 9, 202649 minS2

  <p >In this episode of The A to Z of Wartime Song, Lili Redman and Tom Carradine turn to one of the most beloved songs of the era - "Goodnight Sweetheart," written in 1931 by Ray Noble, Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly, and made immortal by the voice of Al Bowlly. They trace the remarkable career of Ray Noble - Brighton-born bandleader, composer and arranger who assembled one of the most star-studded orchestras in American history, with Glenn Miller on trombone and a residency at the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center - before turning to the extraordinary and often overlooked...

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  Episode #6

  Falling in Love Again - From the Blue Angel to the Front Line

  May 2, 202650 minS2

  <p >In this episode of The A to Z of Wartime Song, Lili Redman and Tom Carradine travel back to one of the most extraordinary moments in modern cultural history - Weimar Republic Berlin - to explore Marlene Dietrich's signature song, "Falling in Love Again," composed by the brilliant Friedrich Hollaender for the 1930 film The Blue Angel. They trace Dietrich's remarkable journey from a Berlin chorus girl to one of Hollywood's highest-paid stars - a woman who turned down the Nazi Party's lucrative offers, renounced her German citizenship, and ended up performing for Allied troops within a few kilometres of...

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  Episode #5

  Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye - Broadway, Ballads and the King of Swing

  Apr 18, 202643 minS2

  <p >In this episode of The A to Z of Wartime Song, Lili Redman and Tom Carradine turn from the comic to the heartbreaking with Cole Porter's sublime 1944 ballad "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" - one of the true gems of the Great American Songbook, and a song so perfect, so simple, that it still stops you in your tracks. The song made its debut in Billy Rose's extravagant Broadway revue Seven Lively Arts - a production that somehow combined Cole Porter, Igor Stravinsky, Benny Goodman, Beatrice Lillie and a group of ballet dancers! Along the way, Lili and Tom...

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  Episode #4

  Der Fuehrer's Face - Donald Duck and the Art of Taking the Mickey

  Apr 11, 202639 minS2

  <p >In this episode of The A to Z of Wartime Song, Lili Redman and Tom Carradine dive into one of the most gloriously irreverent songs of the Second World War - Oliver Wallace's "Der Fuehrer's Face," made famous by Spike Jones and his City Slickers, and immortalised in the Oscar-winning Donald Duck short of the same name. They trace Wallace's remarkable journey from London-born silent film organist to one of Disney's most prolific composers, before turning to the irrepressible Spike Jones - a man who replaced C-sharps with gunshots, performed Liszt at breakneck speed, and gave the world the "...

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