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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…
9 months 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…
9 months, 1 week 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…
9 months, 2 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 …
9 months, 3 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 Profe…
10 months 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…
10 months, 1 week 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…
10 months, 2 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…
10 months, 3 weeks ago
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…
11 months 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…
11 months ago