Podcast Episodes

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, 9 months ago

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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, 9 months ago

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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, 10 months ago

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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, 10 months ago

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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, 10 months ago

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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, 10 months ago

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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, 11 months ago

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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, 11 months ago

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Books & Battlefields: The Somme

Season 2 Episode 19

Something slightly different this week: we look at the village of Bazentin-le-Petit on the Somme battlefields through the lens of three classic memoi…

4 years, 11 months ago

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Walking The Somme: Ancre Valley

Season 2 Episode 18

The Ancre Valley cuts across the northern Somme battlefield like a deep scar; in 1916 attack after attack saw heavy losses here. Our walk takes us fr…

4 years, 11 months ago

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