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Changing Landscapes: Canal du Nord
Season 5 Episode 13
A massive engineering project has been announced for Northern France which will create a new 'super canal' linking in with the existing Canal du Nord…
2 years, 9 months ago
Somme Walks: Bois Français
Season 5 Episode 12
Recorded on the battlefields, in this episode we walk the ground where poets Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon served with the Royal Welsh Fusilier…
2 years, 9 months ago
Trench Chat: Black Poppies with Stephen Bourne
Season 5 Episode 11
In this latest Trench Chat, we are joined by Stephen Bourne, author of Black Poppies. His important book, now in its third edition with a children's …
2 years, 10 months ago
Springboks at Delville Wood
Season 5 Episode 10
In the summer of 1916 men of the South African Brigade marched into Delville Wood. After six days of fighting, less than a third of them returned fro…
2 years, 10 months ago
Forgotten Battlefield: The Reunion
Season 5 Episode 9
More than twenty years after the BBC made a film about the work of 'The Diggers' called 'Forgotten Battlefield', in this special edition of the podca…
2 years, 11 months ago
Verdun: The Trench of Bayonets
Season 5 Episode 8
In December 1920 a large concrete shelter financed by an American millionaire marked the spot where French soldiers had fallen in one of the many sma…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Hindenburg Line
Season 5 Episode 7
In this episode we ask: what was The Hindenburg Line? A system of German defences built in Northern and Eastern France, it was the largest single eng…
2 years, 11 months ago
Ypres: The Immortal Salient
Season 5 Episode 6
In this episode we look at the four years of the Great War in Flanders and the battles around the city of Ypres, in what became known as the 'Immorta…
3 years ago
Trench Chat: Reclaiming The Salient with Roger Steward
Season 5 Episode 5
In this Trench Chat, we are joined by Roger Steward who works as a Battlefield Guide in Flanders, and is the author of an excellent book on Langemarc…
3 years ago
Birds on the Western Front
Season 5 Episode 4
In this episode, we look at the birds which flew above and lived across the battlefields of the Western Front during the First World War, and what th…
3 years ago