Fricourt to Flatiron
Send a text Welcome to Season 6! My wife went away with the kids and instructed me not to anything rash while she was away. So I got on a ferry and went to the Somme.... In this episode, recorded on...
30 Jul 20231h 10min
I died in hell....
Send a text Welcome to the final episode of Season 5! In today's episode, we look at the 3rd Battle of Ypres, more commonly, but incorrectly, referred to as the Battle of Passchendaele. A campaign f...
2 Jul 20231h 10min
The Astrologer of Flanders
Send a text During the course of WW1 over 34 million maps were produced by the Royal Engineers and the Ordnance Survey. From primitive beginnings, by the end of the war, the British Army was in posse...
25 Jun 20231h 6min
Mr Tickler's Suicide Squad
Send a text In this episode, we look at the weapons of war used by men in the trenches. The standard rifle of Tommy Atkins was the Short Magazine Lee Enfield, a highly effective rifle, that was dead...
18 Jun 202355min
Trench Talk: Dr Lindsey Fitzharris - The Facemaker
Send a text In our latest podcast, it's a privilege to be joined by the writer and historian Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris, who wrote the superb book "The Facemaker" about the pioneering WW1 surgeon Dr. Haro...
11 Jun 202355min
Le Touret - a journey through a cemetery
Send a text Standing at the side of the main road from Bethune to Armentieres, the Le Touret Memorial commemorates over 13,400 men who died on this part of the battlefield between October 1914 and Sep...
4 Jun 20231h 4min
The sound of sadness - a journey round The Birdcage
Send a text In our latest podcast, we visit the hulking mass of Plugstreet Wood and look at the actions of December 1914 around the German strongpoint known as The Birdcage. Formed of trenches capture...
28 Mai 20231h 1min
Was I brave?
Send a text In this latest episode of the podcast, we look at bravery on the battlefield through the stories of six remarkable men. Between them, they won 4 Victoria Crosses, 4 Distinguished Service ...
21 Mai 20231h 13min
