The most dangerous man I ever knew.

The most dangerous man I ever knew.

Send a text Our latest podcast begins at the Guards Grave in the Retz Forest near the village of Villers Cotteret on the Aisne battlefield. It contains the graves of 98 men of the Guards Brigade who fought one of the most remarkable rear-guard actions of the Great War near this spot on the 1st of September 1914. We meet the eccentric and dangerous-to-know Irish Guards officer Lt Aubrey Herbert. A loose cannon with a volcanic temper, Herbert was almost blind, but despite th...

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Footsteps in the city - six magnificent memorials

Footsteps in the city - six magnificent memorials

Send a text Welcome to our latest podcast, which was recorded live on the streets of London. In this episode, we travel around the capital to discover the stories behind six memorials, all of which h...

26 Helmi 20231h 10min

Trivial, Treatable, Terrible - medicine goes to War

Trivial, Treatable, Terrible - medicine goes to War

Send a text The Great War saw casualties on an industrial scale. The changing face of warfare placed demands on the medical profession like no conflict before or since. How did medicine adapt to cope...

19 Helmi 20231h 6min

Trench talk - Tim Godden illustrating the Great War

Trench talk - Tim Godden illustrating the Great War

Send a text In our latest episode of Trench Talk it's a real pleasure to be joined by illustrator Tim Godden (http://www.timgodden.co.uk) Tim is an artist and illustrator with an instantly recognisab...

5 Helmi 20231h 10min

Croisilles - a journey through a cemetery

Croisilles - a journey through a cemetery

Send a text In today's podcast, we visit Croisilles cemetery near Arras to discover the personal stories of some of the men who lie within. Many of the men who lie dead in the cemetery were killed in...

29 Tammi 20231h 1min

Suvla - catastrophe in the salt marsh

Suvla - catastrophe in the salt marsh

Send a text In today's podcast, we make a welcome return to the battlefields of Gallipoli and look at the fighting at Suvla. It was a disaster that spelled the end of a disastrous campaign. Ian Hami...

22 Tammi 20231h 9min

Carnoy - a story on the Somme

Carnoy - a story on the Somme

Send a text Welcome to our first podcast of 2023! In today's podcast, we are off to Carnoy on the Somme, a farming hamlet between Mametz and Montauban that was the scene of terrific fighting on the 1...

15 Tammi 20231h 1min

"No War today" - a soldier's view of the Christmas Truce

"No War today" - a soldier's view of the Christmas Truce

Send a text Welcome to our Christmas episode of Footsteps of the Fallen. The Christmas Truce has often been portrayed as a mass act of rebellion by soldiers tired of fighting, who wilfully disobeyed ...

26 Joulu 20221h 13min

The Leipzig Redoubt

The Leipzig Redoubt

Send a text In this latest podcast, we look at the fighting for a small but heavily defended German strongpoint on the Somme battlefield, which proved to be one of the only successes for the British i...

18 Joulu 202259min

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