"To take away the taste of death" - rum, Van Blonk, and booze
Send us Fan Mail This latest episode looks at alcohol and its influence at home and the front. Our journey begins in a London pub containing a remarkable piece of WW1 memorabilia, where time has rema...
22 Mai 202259min
Trench talk with Helen Roberts: A little piece of Australia
Send us Fan Mail In this first Trench Talk of Season 4, it's a real pleasure to be joined by Helen Roberts. Helen is an avid history fanatic who was fascinated by the large chalk map of Australia car...
15 Mai 20221h 2min
The 48 hour VCs
Send us Fan Mail To the southeast of Ypres, in what was once a lover's lane, stands a small artificial hill created from the digging of the Ypres-Comines railway. Standing just 60ft above sea level, ...
8 Mai 202258min
Beyond the front - Fampoux
Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Season 4 of the podcast! In this episode, we're on the little-visited battlefields around Fampoux, east of the city of Arras. These few acres of farmland became a sl...
1 Mai 20221h 2min
So fall the flowers of Scotland - Contalmaison 1916
Send us Fan Mail In our final episode of Season 3, we travel to the village of Contalmaison on the Somme battlefields and begin by visiting the magnificent Contalmaison Cairn, the memorial to the 16th...
10 Apr 202257min
The pen is mightier than the sword
Send us Fan Mail "If the British public knew what was really happening, the war would be over tomorrow" stated David Lloyd George to the editor of the Manchester Evening News in 1917. In this episode...
3 Apr 202259min
Trench Talk with Simon Batten - "Futile Exercise?" Britain's preparations for war
Send us Fan Mail In this latest of our series of Trench Talk, it's a pleasure to be joined by author and historian Simon Batten. Simon is the author of the critically acclaimed and award-winning book...
27 Mar 20221h 9min
The Poor Man's mill
Send us Fan Mail On the 25th September 1915, the Battle of Loos began in Artois, in what was the largest British offensive of the war to date. While the majority of the fighting took place around the...
20 Mar 202255min
