Cambrai - one day on the battlefield
Send us Fan Mail In our latest podcast, we visit the battlefield around Cambrai, where, on the 20th of November 1917, the first mass tank battle in military history took place. The Allies smashed a 5...
14 Jan 20241h 6min
Cobbers - Australia on the Somme
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our first podcast of 2024! In this episode, we visit the battlefields around Villers Brettoneux on the Somme, an area of Picardy that will be forever associated with the A...
7 Jan 20241h 11min
Trench talk - Peter Doyle and the Princess Mary Christmas Box
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our Christmas episode of Footsteps of the Fallen! In this special Trench Talk I'm joined by Professor Peter Doyle who tells us all about the history behind one of the most...
24 Dec 20231h 22min
Dud Corner - a journey through a cemetery
Send us Fan Mail In our latest podcast, we travel to Dud Corner Cemetery and the Loos Memorial in Artois to discover the stories of some of the men who lie here. The podcast begins with an overview o...
17 Dec 20231h 16min
Trench Talk: Jules the Poilu - in conversation with Alexandre Lyons
Send us Fan Mail The discovery of a huge collection of letters, postcards and writings of his great-great-grandfather has taken Alex on a fascinating journey through the wartime experiences of his anc...
10 Dec 20231h 5min
The end of the line
Send us Fan Mail In our latest podcast, we visit the end of the Western Front and take a whistlestop tour around the Lys battlefield near the North Sea coast of Belgium. We look at the military actio...
26 Nov 20231h 4min
The Foresters of Flanders
Send us Fan Mail During the Great War the demand for timber for the front line exceeded at one stage 50,000 tonnes a month. But where on earth could this amount of timber be sourced and who would be ...
19 Nov 20231h 5min
Bunkers and bards - Boesinghe to Ypres
Send us Fan Mail In today's episode, we travel the Ypres salient from Boesinghe to Ypres and visit some of the many cemeteries and memorials that dot this part of the battlefield. We begin at the Zi...
12 Nov 20231h 3min
