An escape from a WW2 prison camp and 200-mile journey on foot through a mountain range to safety sound like something from a far-fetched adventure story, but it all happened to a young soldier from St Ann’s in Nottingham in 1943.

We Share These Streets tells true tales of everyday folk in bygone Nottingham.

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The theme music is Everyone’s Welcome by The Haunted Guy.

www.thehauntedguy.com

This episode also features the superb Tintagel – Pride of St Piran 2021 by The Haunted Guy, which is available via Bandcamp here.

Incidental music is High Tide (instrumental) by Kian Tony.

www.futurehousemusic.co.uk

A Nottinghasm production.

Twitter: @WSTSpod

Email: wesharethesestreets@yahoo.com

Written, presented, and produced by Scott Taylor.

Research by Danielle Etches.

This episode features the vocal talents of Danielle Etches and Teresa Hatherley.

Sound effects:

Marching Band Passes By by FlatHill (from Freesound.org). Appears under the Creative Commons Zero License.

Sweet static 2 by Vedas (from Freesound.org). Appears under Creative Commons Attribution License.

Boxing Bell Signals by Saviraz (from Freesound.org). Appears under the Creative Commons Zero License.

English Countryside with Church Bells (Short).wav by lazymonk (from Freesound.org). Appears under the Creative Commons Zero License.

Clean Record Scratch by kwahmah_02 (from Freesound.org). Appears under the Attribution License.

Creative Commons Zero License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode

Attribution License:

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode