In the shadow of the Springboks - Delville Wood to Courcelette
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the penultimate episode of Season 7! Today we are on the Somme and walk the battlefield from Delville Wood to Courcelette via High Wood and Martinpuich. We begin we looking...
18 Maj 20251h 8min
The Brickstacks
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the latest episode! Today, we walk the canal at Cuinchy, one of the forgotten battlefields of the Great War. Cuinchy was the site of the infamous brickstacks and the scene...
27 Apr 20251h 3min
Fromelles
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this latest episode in which we walk the battlefield of Fromelles. On the evening of the 19th July 1916, men of the newly arrived Australian 5th Division were thrown into ...
13 Apr 20251h 6min
We don't take umbrellas to war.
Send us Fan Mail The weather played its part in the Great War, perhaps in more ways than first imagined. The Great War lasted over 1500 days, and over 600 saw rain on the Western Front. The winter o...
23 Mars 202555min
Neuve Chapelle
Send us Fan Mail On the 110th anniversary, we travel to France and walk around the battlefield of the first major offensive launched by the British on the Western Front at Neuve Chappelle. Initial suc...
9 Mars 20251h 8min
Hohenzollern
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this latest episode of the podcast. Today, we walk the battlefield around the area of the Hohenzollern Redoubt, the formidable German strongpoint located on the battlefield...
23 Feb 20251h 1min
Trench Talk - Chris Sams and the Battle of Jutland
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the first Trench Talk of Season 7! It's a real pleasure to be joined by naval historian and writer Chris Sams as we talk about the Battle of Jutland in 1916. The long-awai...
9 Feb 20251h 3min
"I can't find the damned things!" - Ploegsteert to Le Gheer
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the first episode of 2025! Today, we head to Belgium and walk a less-trodden route south of Plugstreet Wood towards the hamlet of Le Gheer. From the village of Ploegsteer...
26 Jan 20251h
