They knew they were going to die

They knew they were going to die

Send a text Our next episode takes in one of the most iconic and poignant spots anywhere on the Western Front, Devonshire Cemetery on the Somme. Containing 161 men of the 8th and 9th Devons who died on the opening day of the Somme, the cemetery contains the graves of two men who foresaw their own deaths - Captain Duncan Martin and Lieutenant Noel Hodgson. The story of Captain Martin's plasticine model has become the stuff of legend, but were the men of the Devonshire Regiment rea...

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From the West End to the Western Front

From the West End to the Western Front

Send a text Our latest episode begins in Couin military cemetery where a top hat and white gloves marks the final resting place of Edwardian theatre's greatest dandy, Basil Radford, or as he was more ...

4 Jul 202137min

Thiepval - Part 2: Trench Talk with Georgia Brusby

Thiepval - Part 2: Trench Talk with Georgia Brusby

Send a text In this second episode about the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing, it's an absolute pleasure to sit down and chat with Georgia Brusby, who served as an Intern for the Commonwealth War Grav...

27 Jun 202153min

Thiepval - Part 1

Thiepval - Part 1

Send a text In this first episode of a two-part podcast, we visit the largest British war memorial in the world, Sir Edwin Lutyen's geometric masterpiece, the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing. Bearin...

20 Jun 202156min

The Bone Factory of Bellicourt

The Bone Factory of Bellicourt

Send a text On the 29th of September 1918, men from the Staffordshire Brigade successfully smashed through the German lines in the most heavily defended area of the Western Front, around the canal at ...

13 Jun 202136min

Who the hell is this man Livens?!

Who the hell is this man Livens?!

Send a text In this episode, we visit the famously preserved trenches at Sanctuary Wood near Ypres. This remarkable landscape of trenches and dugouts is a must-see for any battlefield visitor. The m...

6 Jun 202131min

Trench Talk - Simon Verdegem

Trench Talk - Simon Verdegem

Send a text In this special episode of Trench Talk, I have the pleasure of sitting down with Belgian archaeologist Simon Verdegem and talking about his career specializing in the excavation of WW1 sit...

30 Mai 20211h 1min

Dilly and the Dormouse - the mysterious world of Room 40

Dilly and the Dormouse - the mysterious world of Room 40

Send a text In January 1917, a German encrypted message was intercepted by a small relay station in Cornwall and passed to the secretive world of the code breakers inhabiting the dingy Room 40 in the...

23 Mai 202137min

The sepoys on the seafront

The sepoys on the seafront

Send a text In this episode, we begin our journey through the footsteps of the fallen in Brighton, where one Autumn afternoon in 1915 the Constabulary were called to a disturbance on the seafront, fol...

16 Mai 202144min

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