The fight in the farmyard
Send a text 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 points o...
2 Jan 202250min
Christmas tales - turkeys, trench raids and tee shots
Send a text 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 provided i...
26 Dec 20211h 1min
Beaucourt - the day the sailors died
Send a text 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 onto the...
19 Dec 202151min
The souvenir king
Send a text 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 normally a...
12 Dec 202145min
Trench talk - The village with the gun with Dr Irfan Malik
Send a text 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 went o...
5 Dec 202152min
Till we meet beyond the grave.
Send a text 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 into ...
28 Nov 202150min
The Indians are coming - Festubert 1914
Send a text 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 army. D...
21 Nov 202154min
The poets of Pilkem
Send a text In this latest episode we head back to Flanders for another walk around the battlefield near the canal at Boesinghe. Starting at Little Swan Farm we look at a wonderful project aiming to ...
14 Nov 202155min
