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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…
11 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 …
11 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…
1 year 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…
1 year 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…
1 year 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…
1 year 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…
1 year 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…
1 year, 1 month 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 …
1 year, 1 month 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 …
1 year, 1 month ago