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Questions and Answers Episode 26
Season 8 Episode 12
This week we discuss the background to the names British soldiers gave their German counterparts - names like Fritz and Bosch - we examine the role P…
9 months, 1 week ago
Somme: Tara-Usna Hills
Season 8 Episode 11
In this episode for the fifth anniversary of the Podcast we travel back to the Somme and look at the story behind the naming of Tara and Usna Hills o…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Questions and Answers Episode 25
Season 8 Episode 10
In this episode we cover subjects from how the British and Commonwealth soldier named the 'Battle of the Somme' in 1916 to how Irish soldiers on the …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
Live From Ypres: Bayernwald Trenches
Season 8 Episode 9
From a recently recorded livestream on the battlefields of Ypres in Flanders, join us on a walk around the reconstructed First World War trenches in …
10 months ago
Questions and Answers Episode 24
Season 8 Episode 8
This weeks subjects include how trenches in the First World War got their names, what happened to the pay of Missing soldiers and were men who were P…
10 months, 1 week ago
Walking Cambrai: Gouzeaucourt 1917
Season 8 Episode 7
We visit the Hindenburg Line battlefields of 1917 where the Battle of Cambrai was fought. We see the battlefield around Metz-en-Couture, visit the ce…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Questions and Answers Episode 23
Season 8 Episode 6
Our latest Questions and Answers cover the military importance of Ypres in WW1, the French Cemetery and Memorials at Notre Dame de Lorette in Norther…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
WW1 on Film: Our World War
Season 8 Episode 5
Our World War was a three-part BBC Drama series for the Great War Centenary in 2014 covering the fighting at Mons in 1914, the Somme in 1916 and the …
11 months ago
Questions and Answers Episode 22
Season 8 Episode 4
In our latest round-up of Questions and Answers we look at Memorials to non-white soldiers on the Western Front, whether 'battle bars' were ever plan…
11 months, 1 week ago
Somme: Albert-Bapaume Road
Season 8 Episode 3
Is there a 'culture' surrounding The Old Front Line? One that helps define it and enables us to understand that landscape of the First World War? If …
11 months, 2 weeks ago