Point du Jour - a journey through a cemetery
Send us Fan Mail In today's episode, we visit Point du Jour Cemetery near Athies, just outside Arras to walk through the cemetery and hear the stories of some of the men who lie buried within. We be...
16 Jan 202258min
The fight in the farmyard
Send us Fan Mail In our first episode of 2022, we pay a visit to one of the lesser-known killing fields of WW1. Covering just a few acres of arable land between Cambrai and St Quentin, the strong poi...
2 Jan 202250min
Christmas tales - turkeys, trench raids and tee shots
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we look at Christmas in wartime, both on the home front and in the front line. We talk about a lucky purchase from a small Northamptonshire auction house that provi...
26 Dec 20211h 1min
Beaucourt - the day the sailors died
Send us Fan Mail The Royal Naval Division, made from men whose presence wasn't needed onboard ships, fought with distinction during WW1, from the defence of Antwerp in 1914, through Gallipoli, and ont...
19 Dec 202151min
The souvenir king
Send us Fan Mail The Army Postal Service (APS) was a remarkable organisation that handled over 2 billion letters and 12 million parcels throughout the Great War. A letter posted in London would norma...
12 Dec 202145min
Trench talk - The village with the gun with Dr Irfan Malik
Send us Fan Mail In our latest episode of "Trench Talk" it's a real pleasure to sit down and chat with Dr Irfan Malik. Dr. Malik grew up with stories of the men from his home village of Dulmial who w...
5 Dec 202152min
Till we meet beyond the grave.
Send us Fan Mail Our journey today begins in Unicorn Cemetery near Vendhuile, just outside St Quentin at the headstone of Lt. David Clemetson. The wealthy son of Jamaican banana traders, he enlisted ...
28 Nov 202150min
The Indians are coming - Festubert 1914
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we look at the fighting at Festubert in November 1914 where men of the Indian Army found themselves out-manned, out-gunned, and out-supplied by a rampaging German arm...
21 Nov 202154min
