Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBehind The Lines at Ypres
Season 4 Episode 7
In this episode we go behind the lines in Flanders and look at the key locations that enabled the British and Commonwealth forces to keep millions of…
3 years, 5 months ago
Great War Objects: Touching The Past
Season 4 Episode 6
In this episode of the podcast we look at several objects connected to the First World and ask what they tell us about the wider history of the perio…
3 years, 6 months ago
Great War Veterans
Season 4 Episode 5
In this episode we look at the experience of war and how it affected veterans who returned home and live long lives. When did they feel able to talk …
3 years, 6 months ago
Vimy Ridge In A Day
Season 4 Episode 4
The capture of Vimy Ridge by the Canadian Corps in April 1917 was one of Canada's iconic moments in the Great War. In another of our Battlefields In …
3 years, 7 months ago
Somme: Across the Pozières Ridge
Season 4 Episode 3
In this episode we travel to the Somme battlefields of 1916, see the ground where men of the 13th Rifle Brigade fought in a tragic attack, and walk t…
3 years, 7 months ago
Arras In A Day
Season 4 Episode 2
In the latest of our Battlefields In A Day series we travel to Arras in Northern France to visit some key locations connected to the fighting here in…
3 years, 8 months ago
Somme: La Boisselle to Contalmaison
Season 4 Episode 1
We begin Season 4 of the podcast with a walk between the Somme villages of La Boisselle and Contalmaison, the scene of heavy fighting in July 1916. W…
3 years, 8 months ago
Adjutant's Notebook: What Is A Division?
Season 3 Episode 30
In a new Podcast Series we use the Adjutant's Notebook to look at different aspects of First World War history. In this episode we examine the corner…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Somme In A Day
Season 3 Episode 29
In the second in our series of Battlefields In A Day, we travel to the Somme battlefields in Northern France. The Somme was one of the defining battl…
3 years, 9 months ago
Above The Battlefield: WW1 Aerial Photography
Season 3 Episode 28
During the Great War pilots took their aircraft above the battlefield not only to bomb and strafe, but to photograph the trenches of the Western Fron…
3 years, 9 months ago