The Kitchener conspiracy

The Kitchener conspiracy

Send us Fan Mail In June 1916, Lord Kitchener of Khartoum was on board HMS Hampshire, heading for Archangel in Russia for top-secret talks. About 1 mile from the Orkney Islands, HMS Hampshire exploded and sank to the bottom of the sea, killing 737 of the 749 souls on board, including Kitchener himself. For the Great War generation, this was their 9/11 or Kennedy assassination. There was a genuine fear that without Kitchener, there was no hope that the war would be won. But, no sooner ...

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Festubert - a walk round a battlefield

Festubert - a walk round a battlefield

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, recorded live on the battlefields, we are at Festubert, the forgotten battle of 1915, and we visit some of the cemeteries around the battlefield to hear the personal ...

12 Mai 20241h 7min

The Devil's breath

The Devil's breath

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Season 7! In our first episode, we look at poison gas, its development and use on the battlefield, and how the science of chemical weapons saw the militarisation of academ...

28 Apr 20241h 7min

The farm cemeteries - Ypres

The farm cemeteries - Ypres

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the final episode of Season 6 and our 150th podcast! In this episode, we look back at the podcast since it began 3 1/2 years ago, examine some of the statistics about the ...

31 Mar 20241h 14min

Trench Talk - Tom Isitt and the Italian Front

Trench Talk - Tom Isitt and the Italian Front

Send us Fan Mail In this latest podcast, historian and author Tom Isitt joins us. Tom has a passion (or, he might say, obsession) with the Italian Front in the Great War. An inhospitable battlefield w...

17 Mar 20241h 12min

Fricourt

Fricourt

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 Mar 20241h 9min

Special podcast update

Special podcast update

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 Feb 20248min

Trench Talk - Roger Steward in conversation about Langemarck German Cemetery

Trench Talk - Roger Steward in conversation about Langemarck German Cemetery

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 Feb 20241h 11min

Where it all began - Vimy

Where it all began - Vimy

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 Feb 20241h 12min

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