Trench talk - Tim Godden illustrating the Great War
Send us 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 recogni...
5 Helmi 20231h 10min
Croisilles - a journey through a cemetery
Send us 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...
29 Tammi 20231h 1min
Suvla - catastrophe in the salt marsh
Send us 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 H...
22 Tammi 20231h 9min
Carnoy - a story on the Somme
Send us 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 th...
15 Tammi 20231h 1min
"No War today" - a soldier's view of the Christmas Truce
Send us 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 disobey...
26 Joulu 20221h 13min
The Leipzig Redoubt
Send us 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 Britis...
18 Joulu 202259min
Trench Talk - Sarah Wearne: epitaphs of the Great War
Send us a text In this latest episode of Trench Talk, it's a real pleasure to be joined by the writer Sarah Wearne, whose 30-year odyssey to study the epitaphs of the Great War culminated in the publi...
11 Joulu 202253min
Five years and five VCs
Send us a text Welcome back to Season 5 of the podcast! In this first episode, we meet five remarkable men, Maurice Dease, Hugo Throssell, Noel Chavasse, Phillip Konowal, and Martin Doyle. They all ...
4 Joulu 20221h 9min
