No ordinary Monday - the day of the 7 VCs
Send us Fan Mail On Monday 2nd September 1918, men of the Canadian Infantry attacked the formidable German strongpoint of the Drocourt-Queant line to the east of the city of Arras. In a day of feroci...
31 Jul 20221h
Trench Talk - Rory Forsyth, CEO of the Western Front Way
Send us Fan Mail In our latest episode, it's a real pleasure to be rejoined by Rory Forsyth, CEO of the Western Front Way project. Rory last came on the podcast in April 2021, and in this latest epis...
24 Jul 202253min
Beyond the front - Festubert
Send us Fan Mail Our latest episode takes us to one of the forgotten battlefields of the Great War - Festubert. Over ten days in May 1915 the British suffered 16,000 casualties for no material gain. ...
17 Jul 20221h 1min
Mons
Send us Fan Mail On the 23rd of September 1914, the BEF went into action, fighting the Germans around the Belgian city of Mons. The small but highly trained BEF was outnumbered three to one by the G...
10 Jul 202256min
Because dead men can advance no further....
Send us Fan Mail In our latest episode, we visit one of the most iconic battlefields anywhere on the Western Front, the Newfoundland Memorial Park at Beaumont Hamel. The park was the site of the trage...
3 Jul 20221h 1min
Polygon Wood
Send us Fan Mail To the northeast of Ypres stands a dark and forbidding woodland, formerly an equestrian centre and rifle range that became a ferocious battlefield in the September of 1917. Known as ...
19 Jun 20221h 3min
The forgotten battlefield- Cuinchy
Send us Fan Mail In our latest episode, we visit one of the forgotten battlefields of WW1, the small village of Cuinchy. Location of the infamous brick stacks, the village appears in many personal me...
12 Jun 20221h
Beyond the front - Guedecourt
Send us Fan Mail Our journey today takes us to the small Somme village of Guedecourt. Throughout September 1916 the village was the scene of violent fighting as the Allies sought to gain control of t...
5 Jun 202253min
