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Despatches: Wings Over Flanders
Season 6 Episode 20
In this latest Despatches we discuss the passing of author Martin Middlebrook, and look back to another Great War icon, perhaps lesser known, John Gi…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Dead Man's Penny
Season 6 Episode 19
While the Great War was still on the British Government decided to produce a Next of Kin Memorial Plaque for all those who had died while on service …
1 year, 11 months ago
Letters From The Trenches
Season 6 Episode 18
A staggering 12 million letters were going to and from the Western Front during the Great War. What was the history of the Royal Engineers Postal Sec…
1 year, 11 months ago
Despatches: Tales of Tyne Cot
Season 6 Episode 17
In our first podcast of 2024 we return to Flanders to look at some of the history behind the original burials at Tyne Cot Cemetery near Ypres, the la…
2 years ago
Despatches: Christmas on the Somme
Season 6 Episode 16
In this special episode of Despatches we look at two Christmases on the Somme: 1915 and 1916. We do this through the experience of men from southern …
2 years ago
Despatches: Battlefield Pilgrimages
Season 6 Episode 16
In this latest edition of Despatches we look at the phenomena of Battlefield Pilgrimages which began almost as soon as the Great War ended and contin…
2 years ago
Somme: Schwaben Redoubt
Season 6 Episode 15
In our final main episode of 2023 we travel to the Somme battlefields and visit one of the most iconic parts of the 1916 landscape - the fields where…
2 years ago
Despatches: Cemetery in the Sand Dunes
Season 6 Episode 14
Despatches goes on the road, and this episode was recorded on location in Flanders. We visit Coxyde Military Cemetery, a British and Commonwealth cem…
2 years ago
Flanders: The CCS Cemeteries
Season 6 Episode 13
Bandaghem, Dozinghem and Mendinghem were three made-up names for British Casualty Clearing Stations locations in Flanders, reflecting their use for t…
2 years, 1 month ago
Despatches: WW1 Trench Museums
Season 6 Episode 12
In this latest episode of Despatches we think about First World War Trench Museums: a battlefield phenomena from the 1920s when thousands of 'pilgrim…
2 years, 1 month ago