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The Western Front: WW1 Trench Warfare
Season 2 Episode 29
The Great War went from a mobile war in 1914 to a static conflict with hundreds of miles of trenches across France and Flanders. How did trench warfa…
4 years, 7 months ago
Walking Ypres: Wieltje to the Steenbeek River
Season 2 Episode 28
In this episode, we look at how the Northumbrian Territorials were thrown into battle at Ypres in April 1915, look at Wieltje as a front line village…
4 years, 7 months ago
Somme 105th Anniversary
Season 2 Episode 27
Today is the 105th Anniversary of the First Day of the Battle of the Somme. The battle began on this day at 7.30 am, when the British soldiers went O…
4 years, 8 months ago
Walking The Somme: High Wood
Season 2 Episode 26
High Wood was one of the most fought-over corners of the Somme battlefields in 1916. We take a walk from Caterpillar Valley Cemetery via Longueval, t…
4 years, 8 months ago
Walking Ypres: Plugstreet Wood
Season 2 Episode 25
South of the city of Ypres in Belgium, a large area of woodland was swallowed up in the fighting of 1914. For the next four years, the British and Co…
4 years, 8 months ago
Trench Chat: Canadian Remembrance Tourism with Samantha Cowan
Season 2 Episode 24
In this 'Trench Chat' we talk to Canadian Tour operator Samantha Cowan about battlefield tourism coming to the Great War battlefields from Canada. Wh…
4 years, 8 months ago
Walking Arras: The Pals at Oppy Wood
Season 2 Episode 23
The story of the Northern Pals battalions who marched to war in 1914 is forever linked to the Somme, but their war continued and in May 1917 they fou…
4 years, 8 months ago
Walking The Somme: Albert
Season 2 Episode 22
Located at the heart of the Somme battlefields, the town of Albert, known as 'Bert to the troops, was the route to the front line - all roads led the…
4 years, 9 months ago
WW1 at Home: War Graves Week
Season 2 Episode 21
It's War Graves Week! The Commonwealth War Graves Commission maintain all cemeteries and memorials from both World Wars worldwide. This week sees the…
4 years, 9 months ago
Trench Chat: WW1 Machine Guns with Richard Fisher
Season 2 Episode 20
In this latest Trench Chat, we are joined by Richard Fisher of the Vickers Machinegun Collection & Research Association to talk about the Machine Gun…
4 years, 9 months ago