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Poles are generally regarded in a good light in the UK. Champions in the sky, they managed to defend Churchill’s Britain in the 1940s. But did they also have another agenda? Did they help a Dane to overthrow the norms of the day? While the tragedy of Ukraine’s invasion by Russia unfolds, in his first monthly episode of Walker’s World Peter Walker offers a lighter-hearted, true account of events which changed the course of history in the British Isles.

In his second episode of Walker’s World, ORLAfm presenter Peter Walker continues on the path of Russia’s historical aggression, which seems so timely as the tragedy of the invasion of Ukraine prevails. It is more than symbolic that the catastrophe of Ukraine began weeks after the start of the Chinese Year of the Tiger – considered to be a year of conflict and rift. It was also the Year of the Tiger when a Polish aircraft heading for Katyn commemorations crashed at Smolensk in 2010. So why is April the cruelest month for Poles? And how has it shaken the world? Our featured Poles in this edition are the 22,000 Poles who perished at Katyn as well as President Ryszard Kaczorowski and his wife and ORLAfm Honorary Patron Lady Kaczorowska. Peter delivers another engaging and poignant episode.