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Season 3 Episode 27
In this episode, the first in a series of Battlefields in a Day, we explore one of the iconic British and Commonwealth battlefields of the Great War:…
3 years, 9 months ago
Walking Arras: Feuchy Chapel
Season 3 Episode 26
Astride the Arras-Cambrai road a small wayside memorial commemorates a missing British officer. Out in the fields small Comrade's Cemeteries act like…
3 years, 10 months ago
Walking Ypres: Brandhoek
Season 3 Episode 25
Just astride the road between Poperinghe and Ypres, the hamlet of Brandhoek was a main site for the treatment of wounded soldiers. Here women serving…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Bantams of Bourlon Wood
Season 3 Episode 24
Among the dark Oak trees of Bourlon Wood, the Bantam Battalions from England, Scotland and Wales experienced their baptism of fire. Who were The Bant…
3 years, 10 months ago
100th Episode: Across The Old Front Line
Season 3 Episode 23
To commemorate one hundred episodes of the podcast we take a journey along the Western Front visiting four locations from Flanders to the Somme to Ve…
3 years, 10 months ago
Henry Williamson's War
Season 3 Episode 22
In this episode we look at the writer Henry Williamson, best known for his nature writing and Tarka The Otter novel, but in the 1950s he began to pub…
3 years, 11 months ago
Aisne: The Old Contemptibles at Soupir
Season 3 Episode 21
We visit the small village of Soupir on the Aisne where men of the British Expeditionary Force, known as The Old Contemptibles, fought in September 1…
3 years, 11 months ago
Tommy Tucker: Food in WW1
Season 3 Episode 20
From Bully Beef to Hardtack and Plum and Apple Jam... what did the British Tommy in the trenches of the Western Front eat? How was it supplied, how g…
3 years, 11 months ago
Forgotten Front: The Cuinchy Brickstacks
Season 3 Episode 19
We return to the 'Forgotten Front' in Northern France where the British operations on the Western Front took place in 1915, and there were long perio…
3 years, 11 months ago
Poets on the Somme
Season 3 Episode 18
In this episode, we follow Great War poets Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon into the trenches near Fricourt at the 'Bois Français' during the mont…
4 years ago