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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 …
11 months, 2 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 …
11 months, 3 weeks 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…
1 year 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…
1 year 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…
1 year 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 …
1 year 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…
1 year, 1 month 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 …
1 year, 1 month ago
Questions and Answers Episode 21
Season 8 Episode 2
In our first Questions and Answers Episode of Season 8 we look at 'quiet' sectors of the Western Front, whether civilians got near the battlefields, …
1 year, 1 month ago
Walking the Somme: Mailly-Maillet
Season 8 Episode 1
We begin Season 8 back on the Somme Battlefields of 1916 and walk the ground around the village of Mailly-Maillet, located just behind the British tr…
1 year, 1 month ago