# Escape From Holland Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/talking-sports-books-869934/escape-from-holland Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/talking-sports-books-869934/escape-from-holland.md Podcast: [Talking Sports Books](https://stenobird.com/podcast/talking-sports-books-869934) Published: 2026-03-24T11:14:50+00:00 Episode link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tim-caple3/episodes/Escape-From-Holland-e3gt6ti Audio file: https://anchor.fm/s/fa23604/podcast/play/117397874/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-2-24%2F420659383-44100-2-5021bae6e86b.m4a Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/talking-sports-books-869934/episodes/escape-from-holland Duration seconds: 2660 ## Resource Welcome back to the new series of "Talking Sports Books" and on this edition we will hear from Tottenham Hotspur's record holding captain Steve Perryman about what happened to him and the club when they were last relegated to what was then division 2. The main book featured this month is "Escape From Holland" Just before dawn on May 10, 1940, German parachute troops rain down on Holland. Watching from his home on the Dutch coast is former international footballer Billy Marsden. It is ten years to the day since the Germans saved his life in a Berlin hospital after he suffered a devastating injury while playing for England - and now it is the German invasion of Holland that is putting his life in jeopardy. In The Hague, Margot Fonteyn and the Sadler's Wells Ballet watch the dogfights from the roof of their hotel. In Amsterdam journalist David Woodward and his American wife, NBC war correspondent Margaret Rupli, are trying to find a way to file the story of the invasion, while young British diplomat Peers Carter attempts to organise an evacuation just eight months into the job. Set across one weekend in May 1940, this is the story of how these people came together to escape with the last official boatload of British evacuees out of Holland before the country capitulated. This is not just the tale of their escape, but the story of why these fascinating characters were in Holland to begin with. ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/talking-sports-books-869934/episodes/escape-from-holland/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/talking-sports-books-869934/escape-from-holland.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.