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The Machine Gunners

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Robert Westall's famous novel set during World War Two in the fictional town of Garmouth.

Listen to The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall, abridged in 10 episodes. Set during World War Two, The Machine Gunners is the story of young Chas McGill and his friends living in the fictional town of Garmouth in the north east of England. With Nazi planes raining bombs on Garmouth night after night, every boy has a collection of war souvenirs. But nothing comes close to the machine gun which Chas pulls down from a crashed German bomber plane. While the police and Home Guard search frantically for the missing gun, Chas and his friends build a secret fortress and plan to fight the Germans themselves.

Antony Byrne

Penny Leicester

Roland Taylor

Bridget Dowty

The Machine Gunners: 3: Getting the better of Boddser Brown

3: Getting the better of Boddser Brown

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The police and Boddser Brown have found the plane and wonder who’s taken its machine gun.

The police and Chas’s arch-rival in the hunt for war souvenirs, Boddser Brown, have discovered the crashed German plane and wonder who’s taken its machine gun. Boddser has taken the dead gunner’s flying helmet and Chas tricks the police into thinking Boddser is prime suspect to have the gun. Meanwhile, the machine gun is safely hidden elsewhere!

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