All roads lead to Ypres
Send a text Why do we always do the same thing? This question was posed during a work call last week, and it got me thinking about travelling around the battlefields and why I always seem to take the ...
28 Jul 20241h 5min
A mile and a half of history - White House to Kitchener's Wood
Send a text Welcome to this latest episode. We find ourselves in Ypres, on a part of the salient that offers real bang for the buck regarding military history. Our journey today covers just over a mi...
14 Jul 20241h 6min
Unseen and unwanted - a colonial soldier's war
Send a text In this latest episode, we look at colonial soldiers' experiences in the Great War. Britain and France made full use of the human capital of their global empires to provide extra manpower ...
30 Jun 20241h 18min
The man they couldn't kill.
Send a text In this episode, we travel to the Somme and begin our journey at one of the most iconic sites on the battlefield, the Basilica at Albert. We hear about its founding and discover more abou...
16 Jun 20241h 7min
Palestine
Send a text In this episode, we visit one of the forgotten fronts of the Great War and look at the fighting in Palestine in 1917-1918. This was an unforgiving landscape that saw numerous battles, the...
26 Mai 20241h 16min
Festubert - a walk round a battlefield
Send a text In this episode, recorded live on the battlefields, we are at Festubert, the forgotten battle of 1915, and we visit some of the cemeteries around the battlefield to hear the personal stori...
12 Mai 20241h 7min
The Devil's breath
Send a text Welcome to Season 7! In our first episode, we look at poison gas, its development and use on the battlefield, and how the science of chemical weapons saw the militarisation of academia in...
28 Apr 20241h 7min
The farm cemeteries - Ypres
Send a text Welcome to the final episode of Season 6 and our 150th podcast! In this episode, we look back at the podcast since it began 3 1/2 years ago, examine some of the statistics about the pod, ...
31 Mar 20241h 14min
