Trench Talk - Simon Verdegem
Send us Fan Mail 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 WW...
30 Touko 20211h 1min
Dilly and the Dormouse - the mysterious world of Room 40
Send us Fan Mail 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 i...
23 Touko 202137min
The sepoys on the seafront
Send us Fan Mail 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
Send us Fan Mail 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 ...
9 Touko 202133min
Gheluvelt - for God and for Worcester
Send us Fan Mail On the 31st October 1914, men of the 2nd Battalion the Worcestershire Regiment fought one of the greatest counter attack actions in British military history, in an afternoon of brutal...
2 Touko 202141min
Trench Talk - Rory Forsyth
Send us Fan Mail In our latest episode, it's a real pleasure to sit down with the CEO and Trustee of the Western Front Way project, Rory Forsyth. The project is a charitable foundation dedicated to i...
25 Huhti 202147min
The teaspoon of Talana
Send us Fan Mail On the 6th July 1915, hundreds of British soldiers left their trenches near the small Belgian village of Boesinghe in an attack against the German lines. Men from the Hampshire Regime...
18 Huhti 202138min
Canada's Golgotha - the crucified soldier
Send us Fan Mail Shortly after the first German gas attack at Ypres in April 1915, rumours began circulating among the troops that the body of a Canadian soldier had been found crucified on the door o...
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