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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Private X and the Immortals of Festubert

Private X and the Immortals of Festubert

Send a text On the 9th April 1915, Private Isaac Reid of the 2nd Scots Guards was shot dead by a firing party of men from his own regiment. Charged with desertion at Neuve Chappelle, according to the...

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Retreat? Hell, we just got here! - Belleau Wood

Retreat? Hell, we just got here! - Belleau Wood

Send a text Along with Khe Sahn and Iwo Jima, the fighting at Belleau Wood is part of the US Marine Corps legend. In 26 days in June 1918, the US Marine Corps fought its first major engagement of WW1...

20 Helmi 202256min

Trench Talk - The Doughboys with Mike Cunha

Trench Talk - The Doughboys with Mike Cunha

Send a text In this latest episode of Trench Talk it's a pleasure to be joined by Mike Cunha. Mike is a military historian, researcher, podcaster, and high school teacher from Boston in the United St...

13 Helmi 20221h 3min

Hellfire Jack and the Manchester Moles

Hellfire Jack and the Manchester Moles

Send a text In our latest episode, we look at the life and work of one of the Great War's most colourful characters, Major John Norton-Griffiths. Conservative MP, philanthropist, jingoistic, and imp...

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Cropper's Craters

Cropper's Craters

Send a text As the land of the Great War has been reclaimed for housing, industry, and agriculture in the hundred or so years since the War ended, there's very little of the battlefields left for us t...

30 Tammi 202257min

The fields of fire - Hooge 1915

The fields of fire - Hooge 1915

Send a text Our podcast today takes us back to the fields around Hooge near Ypres where once stood Zouave Wood. On the 30th July 1915, the Germans attacked men of the 8th Rifle Brigade and 7th Kings ...

23 Tammi 202250min

Point du Jour - a journey through a cemetery

Point du Jour - a journey through a cemetery

Send a text In today's episode, we visit Point du Jour Cemetery near Athies, just outside Arras to walk through the cemetery and hear the stories of some of the men who lie buried within. We begin w...

16 Tammi 202258min

The fight in the farmyard

The fight in the farmyard

Send a text In our first episode of 2022, we pay a visit to one of the lesser-known killing fields of WW1. Covering just a few acres of arable land between Cambrai and St Quentin, the strong points o...

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