Podcast Episodes

The Champagne Battlefields

Season 2 Episode 12

In this episode, we have an introduction to the battlefields east of Reims in the vast open fields of the Champagne. We discover a surprisingly diver…

4 years, 9 months ago

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Ypres: The Menin Gate

Season 2 Episode 11

Back in the city of Ypres in Flanders, in this episode we follow the walls, the old Ramparts, seeing British bunkers, visit the Ramparts Cemetery, di…

4 years, 9 months ago

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Forgotten Front: The Footballers of Loos

Season 2 Episode 10

Was this the 'greatest game'? On 25th September 1915, men of the London Irish Football Club kicked a ball into battle signalling the start of the Bat…

4 years, 10 months ago

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Trench Chat: War Cemeteries & Landscape with Dr Tim Godden

Season 1 Episode 9

In this latest Trench Chat we are joined by military historian Dr Tim Godden to discuss his research on the Junior Architects of the Imperial War Mus…

4 years, 10 months ago

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Somme: Courcelette to Regina Trench

Season 2 Episode 8

In this 50th Episode of the podcast, we return to home ground - the village of Courcelette on the Somme. We walk the Canadian attack route in the att…

4 years, 10 months ago

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Ypres: Hell Fire Corner

Season 1 Episode 7

Along the old Roman Road between Ypres and Menin was a road junction that became the main route to the front line: this was Hell Fire Corner, the mos…

4 years, 10 months ago

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Somme: Ginchy to LesBoeufs

Season 2 Episode 6

We return to Picardy, for a walk across the 'Forgotten Somme': those places less visited on these battlefields of 1916, and see the villages of Ginch…

4 years, 11 months ago

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The Vimy Memorial

Season 2 Episode 5

In this episode, we travel to Vimy Ridge in Northern France, taken by Canadian soldiers in April 1917. We walk from a series of preserved trenches an…

4 years, 11 months ago

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Trench Chat: Battlefield Tourism & Landscape with Amy Harrison

Season 1 Episode 4

In this episode, we are joined by Military Historian Amy Harrison to discuss her work as a Commonwealth War Graves Commission Intern, and her researc…

4 years, 11 months ago

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The Film 1917 Uncovered

Season 2 Episode 3

In this episode we take a detailed look at the film 1917, examining how it represents this period of the First World War, how it depicts the landscap…

4 years, 11 months ago

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