Trench Talk - Walking the Western Front with Briana Gervat

Send us 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 ...

20 Feb 202256min

Send us 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...

13 Feb 20221h 3min

Send us 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 ...

6 Feb 202252min

Send us 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 u...

30 Jan 202257min

Send us 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 Kin...

23 Jan 202250min

Send us 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 begi...

16 Jan 202258min

Send us a text In our first episode of 2022, we pay a visit to one of the lesser-known killing fields of WW1. Covering just a few acres of arable land between Cambrai and St Quentin, the strong point...

2 Jan 202250min

Send us a text In this episode, we look at Christmas in wartime, both on the home front and in the front line. We talk about a lucky purchase from a small Northamptonshire auction house that provide...

26 Des 20211h 1min