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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, 11 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…
4 years 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…
4 years 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…
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 1 month ago
Ypres In A Day
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:…
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 1 month 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…
4 years, 2 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…
4 years, 2 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…
4 years, 2 months ago