"Take one more step and I'll bloody shoot you!" - Aubers Ridge
Send a text On the 9th May 1915, the British launched an attack on the billiard table flat fields of Artois against the Aubers Ridge. What was supposed to be a gentle stroll across the Artois country...
14 Maj 20231h 3min
Trench Talk: William Stroock - "Blackjack"
Send a text In this episode, it's a real pleasure to be joined by the American writer and former History professor, William Stroock. William's historical interests are many, but his book on the WW1 A...
30 Apr 20231h 3min
Conchies - the men who wouldn't fight
Send a text During the Great War over 16,000 men registered as Conscientious Objectors; men whose conscience wouldn't allow them to take the life of another human. Ridiculed in the press, humiliated ...
23 Apr 20231h 27min
Gully Ravine
Send a text The Gallipoli campaign presents military historians with some of the great "what-ifs" of Great War history, and perhaps nowhere more so than the fighting around Gully Ravine in June 1915. ...
16 Apr 20231h 7min
Here we fight and here we die!
Send a text 1917 was a difficult year for the Allied high command. With the British and the French suffering from the exertions of the Somme and Verdun, the French army was in a state of mutiny on th...
2 Apr 20231h 5min
Beyond the front - Epehy
Send a text In today's podcast we visit one of the forgotten battlefields of the Great War, the tiny farming village of Epehy. While small in size, it proved a formidable obstacle to be captured as t...
26 Mars 20231h 11min
God wears velvet........
Send a text In our latest episode we visit a group of cemeteries that were attached to the Casualty Clearing Stations and discover the stories of some of the men and women who lie buried within them. ...
12 Mars 20231h 8min
One day in Artois
Send a text 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 battle...
5 Mars 20231h 12min
