Footsteps of the fallen

Send us Fan Mail During the Great War over 16,000 men registered as Conscientious Objectors; men whose conscience wouldn't allow them to take the life of another human. Ridiculed in the press, humili...

23 Huhti 20231h 27min

Send us Fan Mail The Gallipoli campaign presents military historians with some of the great "what-ifs" of Great War history, and perhaps nowhere more so than the fighting around Gully Ravine in June 1...

16 Huhti 20231h 7min

Send us Fan Mail 1917 was a difficult year for the Allied high command. With the British and the French suffering from the exertions of the Somme and Verdun, the French army was in a state of mutiny ...

2 Huhti 20231h 5min

Send us Fan Mail In today's podcast we visit one of the forgotten battlefields of the Great War, the tiny farming village of Epehy. While small in size, it proved a formidable obstacle to be captured...

26 Maalis 20231h 11min

Send us Fan Mail In our latest episode we visit a group of cemeteries that were attached to the Casualty Clearing Stations and discover the stories of some of the men and women who lie buried within t...

12 Maalis 20231h 8min

Send us Fan Mail In today's podcast, we visit the battlefields of Artois, the scene of so much fighting during the spring and summer of 1915. It's a battlefield region that provides so much for the b...

5 Maalis 20231h 12min

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our latest podcast, which was recorded live on the streets of London. In this episode, we travel around the capital to discover the stories behind six memorials, all of wh...

26 Helmi 20231h 10min

Send us Fan Mail The Great War saw casualties on an industrial scale. The changing face of warfare placed demands on the medical profession like no conflict before or since. How did medicine adapt to...

19 Helmi 20231h 6min