Episode 23 - Kitchener, Cronje and the Battle of Paardeberg
The siege of Kimberley has been lifted and the enigmatic and colorful General French and his 5000 strong cavalry are in charge of the city. The Boers have withdrawn just in time to avoid being caught ...
25 Feb 201820min
Episode 22 - The relief of Kimberley
We’re up to Episode 22 in this series, and this week the story shifts to Kimberley itself. Earlier - around podcasts 2 and 3, I described how this town was really in the hands of the de Beers Mining c...
18 Feb 201822min
Episode 21 - Lord Roberts’ Steamroller
After the last few weeks of skop skiet and donder - which means kick, shoot and beating (In Afrikaans) - we’re shifting our gaze back to the Western Reaches of South Africa, back towards the Cape and...
11 Feb 201824min
Episode 20 - The Acre of Death part 3
It’s 24th January 1900 and the battle of Spion Kop has been under way for ten hours. More than 1000 British soldiers are casualties and the entire senior officer corps on the summit of the mountain ar...
4 Feb 201823min
Episode 19 - The Acre of death, Spion Kop part 2
This week we continue with the battle of Spion Kop and as you’ll hear, its a battle that horrified those who took part with its hand-to-hand fighting, terrible artillery barrages and massacre of Briti...
28 Jan 201825min
Episode 18 - The Acre of death – the Battle of Spion Kop part 1
It's January 1900 and we're at the eponymous battle of Spion Kop. In part one of the two part coverage of the battle, we will take a look at preparations for the battle and discuss the tactics. Righ...
21 Jan 201820min
Episode 17- The centipede approaches Spion Kop
We have arrived at the most momentous battle of the Boer War, the Battle of Spion Kop. Its notoriety continues to this day with war buffs traveling to the steep sided hill half an hours drive South We...
14 Jan 201814min
Episode 16 - Winston Churchill escapes but Spion Kop looms
Winston Churchill who had been captured near Chieverley on the railway line between Escourt and Ladysmith in October and was lucky not to have been shot on the spot. While ostensibly working as a war...
7 Jan 201817min
