Footsteps of the fallen

Send us Fan Mail With the sad news of the passing of Martin Middlebrooke, this podcast heads to the Somme battlefield where we walk across the battlefield at the village of Fricourt. Our journey take...

3 Maalis 20241h 9min

Send us Fan Mail Many of you who listen to the podcast aren't on social media and are not followers of me on Twitter so please find attached a very brief update on what's happening with the podcast go...

19 Helmi 20248min

Send us Fan Mail In this latest episode of Trench Talk, it's a real pleasure to be joined by military historian, battlefield guide and author Roger Steward. Lockdown allowed Roger to write the book h...

18 Helmi 20241h 11min

Send us Fan Mail In this latest episode, we visit the battlefield where my journey through the Great War began some 35 years ago - Vimy Ridge. We look at what happened in this part of the front and h...

11 Helmi 20241h 12min

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this latest episode of Footsteps of the Fallen. In this episode we travel to Flanders and visit one of the lesser-visited corners of the Great War in this part of Belgium,...

4 Helmi 20241h 2min

Send us Fan Mail In our latest podcast, we visit the battlefield around Cambrai, where, on the 20th of November 1917, the first mass tank battle in military history took place. The Allies smashed a 5...

14 Tammi 20241h 6min

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our first podcast of 2024! In this episode, we visit the battlefields around Villers Brettoneux on the Somme, an area of Picardy that will be forever associated with the A...

7 Tammi 20241h 11min

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our Christmas episode of Footsteps of the Fallen! In this special Trench Talk I'm joined by Professor Peter Doyle who tells us all about the history behind one of the most...

24 Joulu 20231h 22min