![]() Like ‘willed’, ‘bold’ is a nice strong, spirited word. ‘Bold’ and ‘world’ could be brought together at the ends of adjacent lines, for instance, but in a way that doesn’t appear forced or artificial. Again, they have the shared final consonants, but because their initial sounds differ, the effect is more subtle and delicate. ‘Bold’ is a common word and so would be quite a natural and organic ‘fit’ for a word like ‘world’. – contains a tenacity and strength which may complement the grandeur and vastness of ‘world’ very neatly. ![]() ‘Wild’ is one of the best half-rhymes for ‘world’, if consonance or pararhyme is what you’re striving for, not least because of the shared first and last letters (‘w_ld’), as well as the established phrase, ‘wild world’.Īnother good choice for the consonance of ‘world’ and ‘willed’, and the word ‘willed’ – as in ‘the spirit willed me to strive’, etc. Given the limited options for rhymes for ‘world’, you might decide that pararhyme, or consonance, is a better way to make the word ‘world’ chime with others at the ends of lines. And once again we have a strong, circular, eddying verb, which fits nicely with the roundness of ‘world’. Although one might quibble that the h should be aspirated in whirled, these two words are obviously nearly identical in sound, at the very least. When is a rhyme not a rhyme? When it is rime riche, the French term for when two homophones are rhymed, e.g. With a similar meaning to ‘swirled’ – many words that rhyme with world seem to denote a circular, coiled, or eddying motion or shape – this word also contains the sound of ‘world’, which is rather pleasing. Strangely enough, bluebirds are not indigenous to Europe and so have never been seen flying over the white cliffs of Dover.‘Swirled’ is perhaps the best and most perfect rhyming word for ‘world’, because it not only rhymes with it: ‘swirled’ even contains ‘world’. The lyrics of the song depict a peaceful future after the war and it was one of the most popular songs during World War Two in Britain. Written by Walter Kent and Nat Burton, this hopeful song of peace after the war was popularised by Vera Lynn in 1942, when the outlook was dark. (There’ll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover ![]() She also wrote ‘Une chanson à trois temps’/’The Partisan’, popularised by both Édith Piaf and Leonard Cohen. It was inspired by a Russian song (Marly was Russian by birth). The most popular song of the French Resistance and Free French Forces, the ‘Chant des Partisans’ was composed by Anna Marly in London in 1943. It is still sung today around the world in support of anti-fascism. Italian for “Goodbye beautiful”, the song was originally sung by workers protesting the working conditions in Northern Italy’s paddy fields. This perennial left-wing folk anthem got its start in Italian Partisan resistance and Italian Civil War of 1943–45. Historian and podcaster Mat McLachlan joins Dan to tell him this extraordinary story of negligence and complacency. They staged one of the largest prison breakouts in history, launching the only land battle of World War Two to be fought on Australian soil during what became known as The Cowra Breakout. It serves as testament to the fact that during the war, the United States had a favourable view of the Soviet Russia.ĭuring World War Two, in the town of Cowra in central New South Wales, thousands of Japanese prisoners of war were held in a POW camp. ![]() Recorded by a capella gospel group Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet (and written by member Robert Wyatt) in 1943, this piece of history praises the Soviet Army and Joseph Stalin’s fight against Nazi Germany. Its Italian version, Fischia il vento, became one of the most popular songs of the Partisans. KatushaĬomposed by poet Mikhail Isakovsky and popular composer Matvey Blanter in 1938, this Soviet war song is equal parts peasant folk music, patriotic battle anthem and love song. In this episode to mark the Dieppe Raid's 80th anniversary in 2022, James is joined by David O'Keefe who has uncovered declassified material proving how the disastrous raid concealed a secret pinch mission to steal one of the Nazis' Enigma code machines. 80 years ago today on 19 August 1942, a 6,000 strong combined Allied landing force took part in a raid on Dieppe, Northern France.
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