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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 Wa…
7 months 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 …
7 months, 1 week 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 th…
7 months, 2 weeks 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 th…
7 months, 3 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 repo…
7 months, 4 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 …
8 months 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 Profe…
8 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 inf…
8 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 Fr…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Ypres: The Menin Road
Season 8 Episode 13
Continuing our journeys along the roads which crisscross the landscape of the Western Front, we travel to Flanders in Belgium, and take the old Roman…
9 months ago