Bois Grenier
Send us Fan Mail 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 doze...
6 Jul 20251h 6min
Faithful unto death - the story of the Chinese Labour Corps
Send us Fan Mail 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...
1 Jun 202559min
In the shadow of the Springboks - Delville Wood to Courcelette
Send us Fan Mail 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...
18 Mai 20251h 8min
The Brickstacks
Send us Fan Mail 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...
27 Apr 20251h 3min
Fromelles
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this latest episode in which we walk the battlefield of Fromelles. On the evening of the 19th July 1916, men of the newly arrived Australian 5th Division were thrown into ...
13 Apr 20251h 6min
We don't take umbrellas to war.
Send us Fan Mail The weather played its part in the Great War, perhaps in more ways than first imagined. The Great War lasted over 1500 days, and over 600 saw rain on the Western Front. The winter o...
23 Mar 202555min
Neuve Chapelle
Send us Fan Mail On the 110th anniversary, we travel to France and walk around the battlefield of the first major offensive launched by the British on the Western Front at Neuve Chappelle. Initial suc...
9 Mar 20251h 8min
Hohenzollern
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this latest episode of the podcast. Today, we walk the battlefield around the area of the Hohenzollern Redoubt, the formidable German strongpoint located on the battlefield...
23 Feb 20251h 1min
