The Kitchener conspiracy
Send a text In June 1916, Lord Kitchener of Khartoum was on board HMS Hampshire, heading for Archangel in Russia for top-secret talks. About 1 mile from the Orkney Islands, HMS Hampshire exploded and...
11 Juli 202147min
From the West End to the Western Front
Send a text Our latest episode begins in Couin military cemetery where a top hat and white gloves marks the final resting place of Edwardian theatre's greatest dandy, Basil Radford, or as he was more ...
4 Juli 202137min
Thiepval - Part 1
Send a text In this first episode of a two-part podcast, we visit the largest British war memorial in the world, Sir Edwin Lutyen's geometric masterpiece, the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing. Bearin...
20 Juni 202156min
The Bone Factory of Bellicourt
Send a text On the 29th of September 1918, men from the Staffordshire Brigade successfully smashed through the German lines in the most heavily defended area of the Western Front, around the canal at ...
13 Juni 202136min
Who the hell is this man Livens?!
Send a text In this episode, we visit the famously preserved trenches at Sanctuary Wood near Ypres. This remarkable landscape of trenches and dugouts is a must-see for any battlefield visitor. The m...
6 Juni 202131min
Trench Talk - Simon Verdegem
Send a text In this special episode of Trench Talk, I have the pleasure of sitting down with Belgian archaeologist Simon Verdegem and talking about his career specializing in the excavation of WW1 sit...
30 Maj 20211h 1min
Dilly and the Dormouse - the mysterious world of Room 40
Send a text In January 1917, a German encrypted message was intercepted by a small relay station in Cornwall and passed to the secretive world of the code breakers inhabiting the dingy Room 40 in the...
23 Maj 202137min
