One day in Artois
Send us Fan Mail In today's podcast, we visit the battlefields of Artois, the scene of so much fighting during the spring and summer of 1915. It's a battlefield region that provides so much for the b...
5 Mars 20231h 12min
Footsteps in the city - six magnificent memorials
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our latest podcast, which was recorded live on the streets of London. In this episode, we travel around the capital to discover the stories behind six memorials, all of wh...
26 Feb 20231h 10min
Trivial, Treatable, Terrible - medicine goes to War
Send us Fan Mail The Great War saw casualties on an industrial scale. The changing face of warfare placed demands on the medical profession like no conflict before or since. How did medicine adapt to...
19 Feb 20231h 6min
Trench talk - Tim Godden illustrating the Great War
Send us Fan Mail In our latest episode of Trench Talk it's a real pleasure to be joined by illustrator Tim Godden (http://www.timgodden.co.uk) Tim is an artist and illustrator with an instantly recog...
5 Feb 20231h 10min
Croisilles - a journey through a cemetery
Send us Fan Mail In today's podcast, we visit Croisilles cemetery near Arras to discover the personal stories of some of the men who lie within. Many of the men who lie dead in the cemetery were kill...
29 Jan 20231h 1min
Suvla - catastrophe in the salt marsh
Send us Fan Mail In today's podcast, we make a welcome return to the battlefields of Gallipoli and look at the fighting at Suvla. It was a disaster that spelled the end of a disastrous campaign. Ian...
22 Jan 20231h 9min
Carnoy - a story on the Somme
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our first podcast of 2023! In today's podcast, we are off to Carnoy on the Somme, a farming hamlet between Mametz and Montauban that was the scene of terrific fighting on ...
15 Jan 20231h 1min
"No War today" - a soldier's view of the Christmas Truce
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our Christmas episode of Footsteps of the Fallen. The Christmas Truce has often been portrayed as a mass act of rebellion by soldiers tired of fighting, who wilfully disob...
26 Dec 20221h 13min
