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Season 1 Episode 31
Rudyard Kipling called the cemeteries of the Great War 'Silent Cities', these vast cities of stone where the dead of that conflict lay. What is the b…
5 years, 4 months ago
Trench Chat: The Missing with John Broom
Season 1 Episode 30
In this latest Trench Chat we talk to historian and author John Broom about his new book Reported Missing in the Great War which will be published by…
5 years, 4 months ago
The Missing of the Great War
Season 1 Episode 29
The war poet Siegfried Sassoon referred to the Missing of the First World War as 'nameless names'. Who were the Missing, what was their fate, how wer…
5 years, 5 months ago
Somme: Pozières to Martinpuich
Season 1 Episode 28
In this episode, we walk the fields that link together an English composer, a Canadian who was one of three from the same street to be awarded the Vi…
5 years, 5 months ago
Ypres: Hitler's War at Croonaert Wood
Season 1 Episode 27
On the slopes of the Messines Ridge, Croonaert Wood (or Bayernwald as the Germans called it) was one of the places connected to Adolf Hitler's story …
5 years, 5 months ago
Trench Chat: WW1 Geology with Peter Doyle
Season 1 Episode 26
Why is the Geology of the First World War so important? In this latest Trench Chat, we are joined by Professor Peter Doyle to discuss landscape and m…
5 years, 5 months ago
Somme: Courcelette to ADANAC Cemetery
Season 1 Episode 25
In this episode, we are back on the Somme and follow in the footsteps of Canadian soldiers who fought at Courcelette in 1916. On this tiny battlefiel…
5 years, 5 months ago
Ypres: A Walk to the Front Line
Season 1 Episode 24
In this episode, we follow a route to the front line used by soldiers during the Great War. Starting in Ypres, we walk via Shrapnel Corner, Zillebeke…
5 years, 6 months ago
Walking 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, 6 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, 6 months ago