Bunkers and bards - Boesinghe to Ypres

Bunkers and bards - Boesinghe to Ypres

Send us Fan Mail 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 to...

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The Corpsefield - part 2

The Corpsefield - part 2

Send us Fan Mail Our second visit to the battlefield looks at the events of the 25/26 September 1915, where 75,000 men of the BEF advanced behind a curtain of poison gas in an attempt to break the Ger...

11 Tammi 202133min

The Corpsefield - part 1

The Corpsefield - part 1

Send us Fan Mail In September 1915, the British launched their largest offensive of the war to date and their fourth offensive against the Germans in Artois. The location was the grim mining town of ...

3 Tammi 202131min

Plum duff and snowballs - a Great War Christmas

Plum duff and snowballs - a Great War Christmas

Send us Fan Mail It became very apparent that the war wouldn't be over by Christmas 1914 as many had hoped for, and in this special episode, we look at how soldiers in the front celebrated Christmas, ...

20 Joulu 202039min

The worst day in our nation's history

The worst day in our nation's history

Send us Fan Mail On the edge of a small field near Fromelles, in northern France stands one of the most poignant and emblematic monuments anywhere on the Western Front. Called "Cobbers" the statue de...

13 Joulu 202030min

Their name liveth for evermore

Their name liveth for evermore

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, our journey through the footsteps of the fallen examines the remarkable vision and perseverance of a 45-year-old Red Cross Ambulance driver by the name of Fabien Ware...

3 Joulu 202036min

Dear God give us some cover - the battle of Aubers Ridge

Dear God give us some cover - the battle of Aubers Ridge

Send us Fan Mail Our 10th episode takes us back to Northern France, where we visit the battlefield of the British offensive against the Aubers Ridge. What was supposed to be a gentle stroll across th...

22 Marras 202031min

Mons - a story of firsts and lasts

Mons - a story of firsts and lasts

Send us Fan Mail This special episode to coincide with Remembrance Day takes us to Mons in Belgium, where the first actions of the Great War between the British and Germans took place. We visit the f...

10 Marras 202029min

Delville Wood - the slaughter of the Springboks

Delville Wood - the slaughter of the Springboks

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we walk the battlefield of Delville Wood, the scene of the first engagement of the South African Infantry on the Western Front. In a period of six days, they suffere...

4 Marras 202031min

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