Beyond the front - Fampoux
Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Season 4 of the podcast! In this episode, we're on the little-visited battlefields around Fampoux, east of the city of Arras. These few acres of farmland became a sl...
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So fall the flowers of Scotland - Contalmaison 1916
Send us Fan Mail In our final episode of Season 3, we travel to the village of Contalmaison on the Somme battlefields and begin by visiting the magnificent Contalmaison Cairn, the memorial to the 16th...
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The pen is mightier than the sword
Send us Fan Mail "If the British public knew what was really happening, the war would be over tomorrow" stated David Lloyd George to the editor of the Manchester Evening News in 1917. In this episode...
3 Huhti 202259min
Trench Talk with Simon Batten - "Futile Exercise?" Britain's preparations for war
Send us Fan Mail In this latest of our series of Trench Talk, it's a pleasure to be joined by author and historian Simon Batten. Simon is the author of the critically acclaimed and award-winning book...
27 Maalis 20221h 9min
The Poor Man's mill
Send us Fan Mail On the 25th September 1915, the Battle of Loos began in Artois, in what was the largest British offensive of the war to date. While the majority of the fighting took place around the...
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Bellevue Ridge - a black day for the silver ferns
Send us Fan Mail In this latest episode, we return to Belgium and look at the opening actions of the attempts by the Allies to capture a small Flanders farming village, whose name has become synonymou...
13 Maalis 20221h 4min
Mesopotamia - the forgotten front
Send us Fan Mail In our latest podcast, we head to one of the Great War's forgotten fronts - Mesopotamia, or modern-day Iraq. A campaign that was almost medieval in its approach to fighting, the crit...
6 Maalis 20221h 1min
Private X and the Immortals of Festubert
Send us Fan Mail On the 9th April 1915, Private Isaac Reid of the 2nd Scots Guards was shot dead by a firing party of men from his own regiment. Charged with desertion at Neuve Chappelle, according t...
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