The Leipzig Redoubt
Send us Fan Mail In this latest podcast, we look at the fighting for a small but heavily defended German strongpoint on the Somme battlefield, which proved to be one of the only successes for the Brit...
18 Dec 202259min
Trench Talk - Sarah Wearne: epitaphs of the Great War
Send us Fan Mail In this latest episode of Trench Talk, it's a real pleasure to be joined by the writer Sarah Wearne, whose 30-year odyssey to study the epitaphs of the Great War culminated in the pub...
11 Dec 202253min
Five years and five VCs
Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to Season 5 of the podcast! In this first episode, we meet five remarkable men, Maurice Dease, Hugo Throssell, Noel Chavasse, Phillip Konowal, and Martin Doyle. They al...
4 Dec 20221h 9min
Turn left on Piccadilly - a day in the life of a British trench
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our 100th podcast! In today's episode, we look at the trenches that formed the 450 miles of the Western Front, running from the Swiss border to the Belgian coast. We look...
13 Nov 20221h 13min
For God and for France! The battle of Touvent Farm
Send us Fan Mail This episode looks at the fighting around Touvent Farm, a critical strong point on what was to become the Somme battlefields. For seven days in June 1915, French infantry fought hand...
6 Nov 202255min
Trench talk - Richard Dunning MBE
Send us Fan Mail Apologies for the sound issues in this episode, it was recorded online and sadly the Internet connection was misbehaving. The sound is not of the usual standard, but this was out of m...
30 Okt 20221h 6min
Hill 35 and the story of Fray Bentos
Send us Fan Mail In today's podcast, we look at the remarkable story of Tank F41 "Fray Bentos" which took part in an attack on the heavily defended German lines near Hill 35 just outside Zonnebeke in...
23 Okt 202257min
Eat Apples
Send us Fan Mail Our latest episode visits the massive military facility at Etaples on the French coast. Known as Eat Apples to the Tommies, the facility contained 20 hospitals and enough accommodatio...
16 Okt 20221h 2min
