Out of money and out of luck - life beyond the trenches
Send a text Welcome to the final episode of 2024! One of the great misnomers of WW1 is that soldiers spent all their time in the trenches fighting. Fighting battles took up a tiny amount of soldiers'...
31 Dec 20241h 1min
Feeding Tommy
Send a text A famous saying asserts that an army marches on its stomach, and in this episode, we examine food and drink for men on the front line. The challenge of feeding an army was immense, and ...
8 Dec 202457min
Liquid fire
Send a text In the early hours of the 30th July 1915, men of the Rifle Brigade and Kings Royal Rifle Corps were attacked near Hooge by German soldiers using a new and appalling weapon of war - liquid ...
24 Nov 20241h 8min
He is not missing, he is here.
Send a text Welcome to this latest episode, in which we explore the history behind one of the world's great monuments, the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing in the Belgian city of Ypres. We hear the...
27 Okt 20241h 8min
I can't say my prayers on a stolen carpet..
Send a text Welcome to the latest episode! In today's episode, we look at the role played by Army Chaplains during the Great War. Responsible for the spiritual and personal welfare of soldiers, the C...
13 Okt 20241h 19min
The black lions of Cantigny
Send a text Welcome to this latest podcast, in which we travel to the southern part of the Somme battlefield, a shell-cratered morass on which the men of Canada, Australia and France died in their tho...
29 Sep 20241h 13min
A potato and a propellor - Amiens at war
Send a text In today's podcast, we journey through Amiens and its surrounding areas, uncovering the deep connections to the Great War. We start in the village of Naours, exploring caves that hold a re...
8 Sep 20241h 12min
Here we fight, and here we die!
Send a text In this latest episode, we answer a couple of listener questions and then tour the battlefield near St. Quentin. We hear the story of the tragic death of two British soldiers shot for spy...
25 Aug 20241h 3min
