Trench Talk - Walking the Western Front with Briana Gervat

Send a text 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, Hill ...

8 Mai 202258min

Send a text 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 slaught...

1 Mai 20221h 2min

Send a text 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 Roya...

10 Apr 202257min

Send a text "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, we ...

3 Apr 202259min

Send a text 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 "Fut...

27 Mar 20221h 9min

Send a text 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 mine...

20 Mar 202255min

Send a text In this latest episode, we return to Belgium and look at the opening actions of the attempts by the Allies to capture a small Flanders farming village, whose name has become synonymous wit...

13 Mar 20221h 4min

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