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The MOD War Detectives
Season 8 Episode 23
In a Trench Chat special we speak to the Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre Commemorations team - otherwise known as 'The MOD War Detectives' - who work to recover and identify the dead on the f…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Questions and Answers Episode 31
Season 8 Episode 22
Our listeners have a few intriguing questions: Is there still live ordnance in the moat at the Ypres Ramparts? What exactly was the role of Inland Waterways Transport during the First World War? How …
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Live from The Arras Memorial
Season 8 Episode 21
In this episode we travel to the Arras Memorial to the Missing, where we explore the powerful story of over 35,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers with no known grave. In this episode, we uncover t…
Published on 5 months ago
Questions and Answers Episode 30
Season 8 Episode 20
In this episode we discuss the improvised gas masks used by British and Commonwealth soldiers in 1915, the advancement in medical treatment during the Great War, whether soldiers were told in advance…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
Forgotten Memoirs of the Great War Part 1
Season 8 Episode 19
In this episode we start a look at some of the Forgotten Memoirs of the First World War, starting with Percy Croney's 'Soldiers Luck' published in the mid-1960s. Croney was a 1914 volunteer who serve…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Questions and Answers Episode 29
Season 8 Episode 18
In this episode of podcast listeners questions we ask: what Great War items would you take to a Desert Island, how was cause of death accurately reported or not by the military authorities, how did m…
Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Other Trench: with Philipp Cross
Season 8 Episode 17
In a special Trench Chat we speak to Philipp Cross who has written a superb book about his great-great grandfather's war as an officer in the German Army. Alexander Pfeifer served from the very begin…
Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago
Questions and Answers Episode 28
Season 8 Episode 16
In this episode we ask were there any 'Thankful Villages' in France where everyone came home, what was 'Camp Elisabeth' at Verdun as visited by Professor Richard Holmes in the 1990s, did Great War so…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago
Sambre Canal 1918: Lock No 1
Season 8 Episode 15
In this episode we travel to the last major battlefield of the Great War on the Western Front - the Sambre Canal. Here we follow the story of the infantry and the engineers who attacked the Canal on …
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago
Questions and Answers Episode 27
Season 8 Episode 14
Our questions and answers in this episode look at what happened to trench systems when they met a road, was the Battle of the Somme a victory, how France remembers the Great War, and the role of the …
Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago