Trones Wood
Send 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 captu...
9 Touko 202133min
Gheluvelt - for God and for Worcester
Send a text 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 clos...
2 Touko 202141min
Trench Talk - Rory Forsyth
Send a text 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 instal...
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The teaspoon of Talana
Send a text 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 Regiment we...
18 Huhti 202138min
Canada's Golgotha - the crucified soldier
Send a text 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 of a b...
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The Black Bard of Pilckem
Send a text On the 31st July 1917, the third battle of Ypres, or the Battle of Passchendaele as it is more commonly known began. Near the small village of Boesinghe, men of the Welsh division went in...
23 Maalis 202132min
Woodbine Willie - the puffing Padre
Send a text In this episode we hear the remarkable stories of two exceptional men, neither of whom fired a shot in anger during the Great War, but through selflessness, humility and bravery have enter...
16 Maalis 202152min
Trench talk - Michael Nugent and the Battle of Festubert
Send a text On the evening of the 15th May 1915, men from the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers left their trenches and crawled into No Mans Land in preparation for a massive attack against the Germans, ju...
9 Maalis 202151min
