Episode 39 - General Buller defeats the Boers at Allemansnek and enters the Transvaal
We’re up to episode 39, and we’re concentrating on the Natal front - or what was known as the Eastern Front. The Natal town of Ladysmith was relieved by General Sir Redvers Buller on 28 February 1900,...
17 Jun 201826min
Episode 38 - Roberts marches into Pretoria but de Wet assaults Roodewal
For those who’ve followed this story from our start in October you know that we’re tracking the weeks of the war itself, and it’s now the first week of June 1900. This moment is what Lord Roberts has...
10 Jun 201820min
Episode 37 - Johannesburg falls to the British
We are into week 37 of this series and Johannesburg lies before Lord Roberts’ army. But he’s using a Velvet Glove which in retrospect is one of the biggest bungles of his career. While he frets over t...
3 Jun 201821min
Episode 36 - The Battle of Doornkop near Johannesburg & Churchill rides a bicycle
This episode is going to concentrate on the minutiae of the British army surrounding the city of Gold, Johannesburg. Its the city that was the main cause of this war with its gold and uitlanders or im...
27 Mai 201824min
Episode 35 - Mafeking becomes a verb
It’s been a brutal seven months but for the English, they are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Or so it appears, because as the joke goes, the light at the end of the tunnel could ...
20 Mai 201823min
Episode 34 - Crossing the Vaal and a Finishing Touch in Mafeking
The ongoing march north by Lord Robert’s army continues, and also swing around to Mafeking just before Plumer’s relieving force arrives because the Boers have a surprise in store for the towns’ comman...
13 Mai 201825min
Episode 33 - Lord Roberts takes Kroonstad & the Canadians march
Mafikeng is still besieged, but columns of British soldiers are advancing on the town from both the North and South. The Boers are falling back across both the Free State and Natal fronts. President S...
6 Mai 201820min
Episode 32 - The English swarm over South Africa
This is episode 32 - the English swarm over South Africa. I have borrowed the title from a Chapter in Christian De Wet’s book published in 1902 called "Three Years War" and this week we will prepare ...
29 Apr 201824min
