The sound of sadness - a journey round The Birdcage
Send us Fan Mail In our latest podcast, we visit the hulking mass of Plugstreet Wood and look at the actions of December 1914 around the German strongpoint known as The Birdcage. Formed of trenches ca...
28 Maj 20231h 1min
Was I brave?
Send us Fan Mail In this latest episode of the podcast, we look at bravery on the battlefield through the stories of six remarkable men. Between them, they won 4 Victoria Crosses, 4 Distinguished Ser...
21 Maj 20231h 13min
"Take one more step and I'll bloody shoot you!" - Aubers Ridge
Send us Fan Mail On the 9th May 1915, the British launched an attack on the billiard table flat fields of Artois against the Aubers Ridge. What was supposed to be a gentle stroll across the Artois co...
14 Maj 20231h 3min
Trench Talk: William Stroock - "Blackjack"
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, it's a real pleasure to be joined by the American writer and former History professor, William Stroock. William's historical interests are many, but his book on the ...
30 Apr 20231h 3min
Conchies - the men who wouldn't fight
Send us Fan Mail During the Great War over 16,000 men registered as Conscientious Objectors; men whose conscience wouldn't allow them to take the life of another human. Ridiculed in the press, humili...
23 Apr 20231h 27min
Gully Ravine
Send us Fan Mail The Gallipoli campaign presents military historians with some of the great "what-ifs" of Great War history, and perhaps nowhere more so than the fighting around Gully Ravine in June 1...
16 Apr 20231h 7min
Here we fight and here we die!
Send us Fan Mail 1917 was a difficult year for the Allied high command. With the British and the French suffering from the exertions of the Somme and Verdun, the French army was in a state of mutiny ...
2 Apr 20231h 5min
Beyond the front - Epehy
Send us Fan Mail In today's podcast we visit one of the forgotten battlefields of the Great War, the tiny farming village of Epehy. While small in size, it proved a formidable obstacle to be captured...
26 Mars 20231h 11min
