The Pool of Peace
Send us a text Welcome to this latest episode! Today we are in Belgium and walk the battlefield to the south of Ypres, beginning at Bedford House Cemetery and finishing at the Spanbroekmolen mine crat...
21 Sep 20251h 1min
Trench Talk - Sussex to the Somme with Martin Barry
Send a text In this latest episode of Trench Talk, it's a pleasure to be joined by international cricketer, battlefield guide and WW1 fanatic Martin Barry. Martin works as a battlefield guide and volu...
31 Aug 20251h 6min
Hill 70 - a listener's request
Send us a text Welcome to today's episode! For the first time, we have created a listener's request podcast; I was contacted by a listener who discovered his Grandfather had been killed at Hill 70 whi...
3 Aug 20251h 1min
Trench talk - Uniforms of the Great War with Taff Gillingham
Send us a text Welcome to the first Trench Talk of the season, where Taff Gillingham joins me. Taff is a military historian and specialist historical advisor for the film, TV and theatre industries a...
20 Jul 20251h 16min
Bois Grenier
Send us a text Welcome to the first episode of Season 8! Today, we travel to the forgotten front and the village of Bois Grenier. The fields in this sleepy corner of agricultural France contain dozens...
6 Jul 20251h 6min
Faithful unto death - the story of the Chinese Labour Corps
Send a text Welcome to the final episode of Season 7! In today's episode, we look at the little-studied role played by the Chinese Labour Corps during the Great War. Over 90,000 Chinese labourers serv...
1 Jun 202559min
In the shadow of the Springboks - Delville Wood to Courcelette
Send a text Welcome to the penultimate episode of Season 7! Today we are on the Somme and walk the battlefield from Delville Wood to Courcelette via High Wood and Martinpuich. We begin we looking at "...
18 Mai 20251h 8min
The Brickstacks
Send a text Welcome to the latest episode! Today, we walk the canal at Cuinchy, one of the forgotten battlefields of the Great War. Cuinchy was the site of the infamous brickstacks and the scene of b...
27 Apr 20251h 3min
