The poets of Pilkem
Send us Fan Mail In this latest episode we head back to Flanders for another walk around the battlefield near the canal at Boesinghe. Starting at Little Swan Farm we look at a wonderful project aimin...
14 Nov 202155min
Trench Talk - Paul Reed
Send us Fan Mail In our latest episode, it's a real pleasure to be joined by military historian, podcaster, writer, and broadcaster, Paul Reed. A professional military historian for over 30 years, Pa...
7 Nov 20211h 18min
A tale of two cemeteries
Send us Fan Mail In today's podcast, we take a walk through two small but fascinating cemeteries in Artois, La Targette British Cemetery near Neuville St Vaast, and Le Trou Aid Post located near Fleu...
31 Okt 202148min
Those magnificent men - the life and death of a British airman
Send us Fan Mail Of all areas of warfare that developed during the Great War, the advances in technology that accompanied the development of flight were surely the most dramatic. Our story of the Roy...
24 Okt 202149min
Operation Alberich
Send us Fan Mail As the sun set on the Somme battle, over 125,000 Allied soldiers lay dead on the fields of Picardy. Every inch of ground that had been gained had been paid for in blood. The Germans...
17 Okt 202156min
Bernafay Wood
Send us Fan Mail In our 50th podcast, we return to the Somme battlefield and look at one of the lesser-known areas of the fighting, Bernafay Wood. While there were no major battles per se, the wood i...
3 Okt 202149min
Trench Talk - The Lone Tree of Loos with Wayne & Michelle Young
Send us Fan Mail On this, the 106th anniversary of the Battle of Loos, it's an absolute pleasure to be joined by Michelle and Wayne Young, two avid battlefield visitors, who, like me, share a real pas...
26 Sep 202146min
Caterpillar Valley
Send us Fan Mail Our journey begins in the small village of Bazentin, at one of the smallest war memorials on the Western Front, that to the Nine Brave Men of the Royal Engineers, before we begin our ...
19 Sep 202145min
