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Back to SearchWalking The Somme: Fricourt
Season 1 Episode 23
In this episode, we walk the battlefield at Fricourt on the Somme. It's a walk very much connected to regiments from Yorkshire who fought here on 1st…
5 years, 4 months ago
Flanders: Tyne Cot Cemetery
Season 1 Episode 22
In this episode, we explore Tyne Cot Cemetery and Memorial. Tyne Cot, the largest British and Commonwealth war cemetery in the world, stands on a rid…
5 years, 5 months ago
Return to the Old Front Line
Season 1 Episode 21
This weeks episode was recorded a few weeks ago whilst on the battlefields of Flanders, and in it, we visit a small cemetery in the fields near Boesi…
5 years, 5 months ago
Trench Chat: Veterans with Richard Van Emden
Season 1 Episode 20
In this latest 'Trench Chat' we speak to military historian and author Richard Van Emden about his time interviewing veterans of the Great War, and p…
5 years, 5 months ago
They Called It Passchendaele
Season 1 Episode 19
What does Passchendaele mean to us, more than a century later? In this episode, we walk an iconic battlefield of the Great War, the ground where the …
5 years, 5 months ago
Trench Chat: The Somme with Tim Thurlow
Season 1 Episode 18
For the first of our Trench Chats, we are joined by Battlefield Guide Tim Thurlow to talk about his many years of walking the Somme battlefields, dis…
5 years, 5 months ago
Somme: Newfoundland Park
Season 1 Episode 17
In this episode, we are once more on the Somme and take a visit to the Newfoundland Memorial Park at Beaumont-Hamel, a unique area of preserved First…
5 years, 6 months ago
Somme Anniversary
Season 1 Episode 16
On the Anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, this Somme Extra looks at some of the background to 1st July 1916, we take a walk from outside Albert …
5 years, 6 months ago
Walking Ypres: Sanctuary Wood
Season 1 Episode 15
In this episode we walk from the Menin Road, along Maple Avenue to Sanctuary Wood British Cemetery, visiting the grave of Gilbert Talbot and a privat…
5 years, 6 months ago
Walking The Somme: Pals at Serre
Season 1 Episode 14
This week we are once again back on the Somme, this time to visit the battlefield at Serre where the men from the Northern Pals battalions had their …
5 years, 6 months ago