Those magnificent men - the life and death of a British airman
Send us a text Of all areas of warfare that developed during the Great War, the advances in technology that accompanied the development of flight were surely the most dramatic. Our story of the Royal...
24 Okt 202149min
Operation Alberich
Send us a text As the sun set on the Somme battle, over 125,000 Allied soldiers lay dead on the fields of Picardy. Every inch of ground that had been gained had been paid for in blood. The Germans, ...
17 Okt 202156min
Bernafay Wood
Send us a text In our 50th podcast, we return to the Somme battlefield and look at one of the lesser-known areas of the fighting, Bernafay Wood. While there were no major battles per se, the wood its...
3 Okt 202149min
Trench Talk - The Lone Tree of Loos with Wayne & Michelle Young
Send us a text On this, the 106th anniversary of the Battle of Loos, it's an absolute pleasure to be joined by Michelle and Wayne Young, two avid battlefield visitors, who, like me, share a real passi...
26 Sep 202146min
Caterpillar Valley
Send us a text Our journey begins in the small village of Bazentin, at one of the smallest war memorials on the Western Front, that to the Nine Brave Men of the Royal Engineers, before we begin our wa...
19 Sep 202145min
The winds of change - December 1915
Send us a text The year 1915 had been a chastening experience for the men of the BEF. Tens of thousands of men had been killed on the Western Front in the failed battles at Neuve Chappelle, Aubers, ...
12 Sep 202138min
Combles - the fortified village
Send us a text For a period of three months between July and September 1916, the Allies and Germans battled for control of the fortified village of Combles, on the northeast of the Somme battlefield. ...
5 Sep 202138min
The gardeners of Salonika
Send us a text The disease-ridden and inhospitable landscape of Salonika is one of the forgotten campaigns of WW1. For almost three years soldiers from all over the world fought against each other i...
29 Aug 202145min
