The lost cemetery
Send us Fan Mail Our journey today begins at Berkshire Cemetery Extension near Ploegsteert Wood, home of a stunning memorial to the missing, and two magnificent stone lions guarding the entrance in al...
6 Aug 202358min
Fricourt to Flatiron
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Season 6! My wife went away with the kids and instructed me not to anything rash while she was away. So I got on a ferry and went to the Somme.... In this episode, record...
30 Juli 20231h 10min
I died in hell....
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the final episode of Season 5! In today's episode, we look at the 3rd Battle of Ypres, more commonly, but incorrectly, referred to as the Battle of Passchendaele. A campa...
2 Juli 20231h 10min
The Astrologer of Flanders
Send us Fan Mail During the course of WW1 over 34 million maps were produced by the Royal Engineers and the Ordnance Survey. From primitive beginnings, by the end of the war, the British Army was in ...
25 Juni 20231h 6min
Mr Tickler's Suicide Squad
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we look at the weapons of war used by men in the trenches. The standard rifle of Tommy Atkins was the Short Magazine Lee Enfield, a highly effective rifle, that was...
18 Juni 202355min
Trench Talk: Dr Lindsey Fitzharris - The Facemaker
Send us Fan Mail In our latest podcast, it's a privilege to be joined by the writer and historian Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris, who wrote the superb book "The Facemaker" about the pioneering WW1 surgeon Dr....
11 Juni 202355min
Le Touret - a journey through a cemetery
Send us Fan Mail Standing at the side of the main road from Bethune to Armentieres, the Le Touret Memorial commemorates over 13,400 men who died on this part of the battlefield between October 1914 an...
4 Juni 20231h 4min
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
