BBC R4 Documentary - \\\'Dad\\\'s Revolu

BBC R4 Documentary - 'Dads' Revolutionary Army' Presented by Mike Thompson Readings by Jonathon Keeble Produced by Phillip Sellers Broadcast September 5, 2005 Coded from tape at 128/44.1 Most people's view of The Home Guard is a more serious less bumbling version of what the BBC TV programme 'Dad's Army' presented. And some of it was. But that is not the whole story. There were other groups formed under the same umbrella. These broke into two strands. One was farmers and labourers working remoter parts of Britain who were enlisted, trained in sabotage, demolition & assassination, provided with arms in underground dumps, and sent back to their day jobs. They would have been activated should Axis forces have landed, and would have formed the backbone of armed resistance should the government surrender. The other strand was a politicised group, similarly trained, who would have gone into action should it look like the Halifax persuasion was going to take power and sue for peace. They were to take out key people and potential collaborators [such as Mosley]. Michael Foot said that his first job would have been to kill Halifax. A problem with empowering secret armies is that they sometimes get ideas of their own. This documentary is part of the story. Over the next few years we should get much more of it. .

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