Bunkers and bards - Boesinghe to Ypres

Bunkers and bards - Boesinghe to Ypres

Send us a text In today's episode, we travel the Ypres salient from Boesinghe to Ypres and visit some of the many cemeteries and memorials that dot this part of the battlefield. We begin at the Ziegler Bunker and one of the finest bunkers left on the Western Front before continuing to a roadside memorial bedecked with the tricolor of Ireland, and hear the sad tale of one of Ireland's finest poets. Our journey continues taking in demarcation stones and memorials before we had back towa...

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Thiepval - Part 2: Trench Talk with Georgia Brusby

Thiepval - Part 2: Trench Talk with Georgia Brusby

Send us a text In this second episode about the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing, it's an absolute pleasure to sit down and chat with Georgia Brusby, who served as an Intern for the Commonwealth War G...

27 Kesä 202153min

Thiepval - Part 1

Thiepval - Part 1

Send us a text In this first episode of a two-part podcast, we visit the largest British war memorial in the world, Sir Edwin Lutyen's geometric masterpiece, the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing. Bea...

20 Kesä 202156min

The Bone Factory of Bellicourt

The Bone Factory of Bellicourt

Send us a text On the 29th of September 1918, men from the Staffordshire Brigade successfully smashed through the German lines in the most heavily defended area of the Western Front, around the canal ...

13 Kesä 202136min

Who the hell is this man Livens?!

Who the hell is this man Livens?!

Send us a text In this episode, we visit the famously preserved trenches at Sanctuary Wood near Ypres. This remarkable landscape of trenches and dugouts is a must-see for any battlefield visitor. Th...

6 Kesä 202131min

Trench Talk - Simon Verdegem

Trench Talk - Simon Verdegem

Send us a text In this special episode of Trench Talk, I have the pleasure of sitting down with Belgian archaeologist Simon Verdegem and talking about his career specializing in the excavation of WW1 ...

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Dilly and the Dormouse - the mysterious world of Room 40

Dilly and the Dormouse - the mysterious world of Room 40

Send us a text In January 1917, a German encrypted message was intercepted by a small relay station in Cornwall and passed to the secretive world of the code breakers inhabiting the dingy Room 40 in ...

23 Touko 202137min

The sepoys on the seafront

The sepoys on the seafront

Send us a text In this episode, we begin our journey through the footsteps of the fallen in Brighton, where one Autumn afternoon in 1915 the Constabulary were called to a disturbance on the seafront, ...

16 Touko 202144min

Trones Wood

Trones Wood

Send us a text In our latest episode, we walk the battlefield in one of the lesser-known killing fields of the Somme, Trones Wood. While diminutive in size, the wood was a fearsome obstacle, whose ca...

9 Touko 202133min

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