Mesopotamia - the forgotten front
Send a text In our latest podcast, we head to one of the Great War's forgotten fronts - Mesopotamia, or modern-day Iraq. A campaign that was almost medieval in its approach to fighting, the critical ...
6 Mar 20221h 1min
Private X and the Immortals of Festubert
Send a text On the 9th April 1915, Private Isaac Reid of the 2nd Scots Guards was shot dead by a firing party of men from his own regiment. Charged with desertion at Neuve Chappelle, according to the...
27 Feb 202258min
Retreat? Hell, we just got here! - Belleau Wood
Send a text Along with Khe Sahn and Iwo Jima, the fighting at Belleau Wood is part of the US Marine Corps legend. In 26 days in June 1918, the US Marine Corps fought its first major engagement of WW1...
20 Feb 202256min
Trench Talk - The Doughboys with Mike Cunha
Send a text In this latest episode of Trench Talk it's a pleasure to be joined by Mike Cunha. Mike is a military historian, researcher, podcaster, and high school teacher from Boston in the United St...
13 Feb 20221h 3min
Hellfire Jack and the Manchester Moles
Send a text In our latest episode, we look at the life and work of one of the Great War's most colourful characters, Major John Norton-Griffiths. Conservative MP, philanthropist, jingoistic, and imp...
6 Feb 202252min
Cropper's Craters
Send a text As the land of the Great War has been reclaimed for housing, industry, and agriculture in the hundred or so years since the War ended, there's very little of the battlefields left for us t...
30 Jan 202257min
The fields of fire - Hooge 1915
Send a text Our podcast today takes us back to the fields around Hooge near Ypres where once stood Zouave Wood. On the 30th July 1915, the Germans attacked men of the 8th Rifle Brigade and 7th Kings ...
23 Jan 202250min
Point du Jour - a journey through a cemetery
Send a text In today's episode, we visit Point du Jour Cemetery near Athies, just outside Arras to walk through the cemetery and hear the stories of some of the men who lie buried within. We begin w...
16 Jan 202258min
