This is Lost Voices from The Daily Mail – the series in which we bring you the stories of extraordinary individuals… in their own words.
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At 105 years old, Flight Lieutenant Colin Bell is a living link to a world most of us can only imagine. Born in 1921, Colin grew up watching Charles Lindbergh land at Croydon, dealt with black marketeers for petrol coupons, and sweet-talked a reluctant girl called Cath into a date - the woman he would go on to marry. But it was the skies over wartime Germany that would define him. Flying solo Mosquito missions deep into enemy territory, running spoof raids over Hamburg, and making terrifying flights over Berlin, Colin saw and survived things that claimed the lives of a quarter of his squadron. In this episode of Lost Voices, he reflects on courage, fear, and what it really meant to fly for your country.
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17 Jan 2025TRANSCRIPT
4: A Change of Heart? (or War is Declared)
Literary Editor Sandra Parsons analyzes Unity Mitford's diary entries, revealing her growing fears and isolation as Britain enters war with Germany, including a visit to Dachau and appropriation of Jewish property.
17 Jan 2025TRANSCRIPT
A Change of Heart? (or War is Declared)
Sandra Parsons delves into Unity Mitford's personal diary to reveal the tumultuous days before and after Britain's declaration of war, exposing the fears and tensions that gripped her.
17 Jan 2025TRANSCRIPT
A Conflict of Loyalties
How will Unity Mitford reconcile her love for England with her besotted loyalty to Adolf Hitler and fascism? As war looms, she sits next to The Führer at official dinners and is privy to German state secrets – but is Hitler using her to spread false information? Listen to find out!
Sandra Parsons, Literary Editor of the Daily Mail, explores world-exclusive extracts from Unity Mitford’s personal diary - revealing Hitler’s state of mind in the run-up to war, and his extraordinary relationship with a frivolous British socialite.
In this episode, Unity appears to have a premonition of disaster and prepares for the worst.
Host: Sandra Parsons
Actress: Cicely Whitehead
Producer: Ben Devlin
Sound Design: Jarek Zaba
Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini
Executive Producer: Bella Soames
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17 Jan 2025
3: A Conflict of Loyalties
Literary Editor Sandra Parsons examines Unity Mitford's diary, revealing Hitler's state of mind and his unusual relationship with her as war approaches, suggesting a premonition of disaster.
17 Jan 2025TRANSCRIPT
2: The Frivolity of Evil
Sandra Parsons interviews Cicely Whitehead, who embodies Unity Mitford, revealing Mitford's diary extracts and her descent into fascism and infatuation with Adolf Hitler, exposing a disturbing tale of obsession.
17 Jan 2025TRANSCRIPT
The Frivolity of Evil
Sandra Parsons delves into the twisted tale of Unity Mitford's obsession with Adolf Hitler, revealing a complex web of fascism and anti-Semitism through exclusive extracts from her personal diary.
17 Jan 2025TRANSCRIPT
Stalking Hitler
Sandra Parsons delves into Unity Mitford's intimate and shocking relationship with Adolf Hitler, uncovering a bizarre tale of infatuation and obsession through exclusive diary extracts.
17 Jan 2025TRANSCRIPT
1: Stalking Hitler
Sandra Parsons examines Unity Mitford's diary, revealing her infatuation with Adolf Hitler and her immersion into Nazism as Europe teeters on the brink of war; this is an interview episode.
23 Feb 2024TRANSCRIPT
The Execution
In this episode MP Chris Bryant concludes the three part story of James and John, the last two men in Britain to be hung for the crime of sodomy. It’s late November 1835 and James and John are in the “hell above ground” of Newgate Prison, among their only visitors is a young writer called Charles Dickens who's appalled by their treatment. Hensleigh Wedgwood, the magistrate who committed the men to trial, writes to the Home Secretary pleading for their lives, but it is not to be and notorious hangman William Calcraft will, once again, be at the gallows in front of a blood-thirsty crowd. Although it will come too late for James and John, change is in the air.
Host: Chris Bryant MP
Producer: Rob Fitzpatrick
Editor & Sound Design: Tony Onuchukwu
Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini
Exec Producer: Jamie East
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16 Feb 2024TRANSCRIPT
The Trial
In this episode MP Chris Bryant continues the three part story of James and John, the last two men in Britain to be hung for the crime of sodomy. It’s summer of 1835 and, after James and John have been seen having sex in William Bonell’s room in South London, their case has come to court. James’ wife Elizabeth pleads for her husband’s life - but it’s in vain. Two men will be executed and one will be shipped across the world to die, broken, in a new and strange land.
Host: Chris Bryant MP
Producer: Rob Fitzpatrick
Editor & Sound Design: Tony Onuchukwu
Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini
Exec Producer: Jamie East
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9 Feb 2024TRANSCRIPT
James & John
In this episode MP Chris Bryant begins the three part story of James and John, the last two men in Britain to be hung for the crime of sodomy. It’s the summer of 1835 and the two men, both servants to wealthy clients, meet in William Bonell’s rooms in South London. But someone’s looking in on them and 19th-century Britain’s unique obsession with homosexuality will leave a dark and terrible stain on our nation’s legal history.
Host: Chris Bryant MP
Producer: Rob Fitzpatrick
Editor & Sound Design: Tony Onuchukwu
Production Manager: Vittoria Cecchini
Exec Producer: Jamie East
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5 Feb 2024TRANSCRIPT
The Tragedy of James & John
Introducing Lost Voices, a series dedicated to events that should never have happened.
Season 1 focuses on James & John - the last two men to be hanged in Britain for being gay - hosted by Chris Bryant MP.
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World War Two Bomber Pilot Colin Bell
Published 28 Feb 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Because I built up so many flying hours in America, when I qualified as a pilot in America, I was retained for 18 months as an instructor to American and British cadets. So therefore, I built up an enormous number of flying hours, and it was because I got that large number of flying hours, I qualified to fly a mosquito over here. The mosquito wasn't so well -known, perhaps as the Spitfire or the Lancaster, and I once flew a Spitfire, and inevitably somebody said to me afterwards, how does this compare with the mosquito? And I said, well, they're both fully aerobatic. I said, there's nothing you could do with a Spitfire that you couldn't do with a mosquito. […]
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