Trivial, Treatable, Terrible - medicine goes to War
Send a text The Great War saw casualties on an industrial scale. The changing face of warfare placed demands on the medical profession like no conflict before or since. How did medicine adapt to cope...
19 Feb 20231h 6min
Trench talk - Tim Godden illustrating the Great War
Send a text In our latest episode of Trench Talk it's a real pleasure to be joined by illustrator Tim Godden (http://www.timgodden.co.uk) Tim is an artist and illustrator with an instantly recognisab...
5 Feb 20231h 10min
Croisilles - a journey through a cemetery
Send a text In today's podcast, we visit Croisilles cemetery near Arras to discover the personal stories of some of the men who lie within. Many of the men who lie dead in the cemetery were killed in...
29 Jan 20231h 1min
Suvla - catastrophe in the salt marsh
Send a text In today's podcast, we make a welcome return to the battlefields of Gallipoli and look at the fighting at Suvla. It was a disaster that spelled the end of a disastrous campaign. Ian Hami...
22 Jan 20231h 9min
Carnoy - a story on the Somme
Send a text Welcome to our first podcast of 2023! In today's podcast, we are off to Carnoy on the Somme, a farming hamlet between Mametz and Montauban that was the scene of terrific fighting on the 1...
15 Jan 20231h 1min
"No War today" - a soldier's view of the Christmas Truce
Send a text Welcome to our Christmas episode of Footsteps of the Fallen. The Christmas Truce has often been portrayed as a mass act of rebellion by soldiers tired of fighting, who wilfully disobeyed ...
26 Des 20221h 13min
The Leipzig Redoubt
Send a text In this latest podcast, we look at the fighting for a small but heavily defended German strongpoint on the Somme battlefield, which proved to be one of the only successes for the British i...
18 Des 202259min
Trench Talk - Sarah Wearne: epitaphs of the Great War
Send a text In this latest episode of Trench Talk, it's a real pleasure to be joined by the writer Sarah Wearne, whose 30-year odyssey to study the epitaphs of the Great War culminated in the publicat...
11 Des 202253min
