Five years and five VCs
Send a text 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 all cam...
4 Dec 20221h 9min
Turn left on Piccadilly - a day in the life of a British trench
Send a text 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 at h...
13 Nov 20221h 13min
For God and for France! The battle of Touvent Farm
Send a text 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-to-h...
6 Nov 202255min
Trench talk - Richard Dunning MBE
Send a text 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 my con...
30 Okt 20221h 6min
Hill 35 and the story of Fray Bentos
Send a text 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 Augu...
23 Okt 202257min
Eat Apples
Send a text 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 accommodation for...
16 Okt 20221h 2min
A bloody great hole in the ground - La Boiselle
Send a text In our latest episode we visit the tiny Somme hamlet of La Boiselle and look at the action which led up to the creation of the massive Lochnagar Crater, which stands on the site to this da...
9 Okt 20221h 1min
"Doesn't it ever get boring?"
Send a text In this episode, we visit Ypres and look at five locations around the battlefields that keep calling us back trip after trip. We begin with a reflection on the personal connection one fee...
2 Okt 20221h 25min
