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Back to SearchThe Road to The Great War: The Lights Go Out (Part 6)
Episode 474
“The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime”
In the early days of August 1914, the British press has bec…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Road to The Great War: The Tsar Chooses War (Part 5)
Episode 473
“We have been forced to draw the sword”.
Following the expiry of Austria’s Ultimatum on Saturday 25th July 1914, the Kaiser and the Tsar - friends and…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Road to The Great War: Britain's Fateful Choice (Part 4)
Episode 472
On the 24th of July 1914, in London, the Liberal British Cabinet met to hear the Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, read them the Ultimatum handed t…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Road to The Great War: The Austrian Ultimatum (Part 3)
Episode 471
On the 20th of July 1914 the heads of state of two great European powers - France and Russia - met in St Petersburg. Little did they know, though the…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Road to The Great War: The Kaiser’s Blank Cheque (Part 2)
Episode 470
In the wake of the cataclysmic assassination of Franz Ferdinand on the 28th of June 1914, in Austria, the long percolating question of what to do abo…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Road to The Great War: Countdown to Armageddon (Part 1)
Episode 469
By the end of July 1914, the world hovered on the edge of a cataclysmic world war; Austria was at war with Serbia, Russia with Germany, and an ultima…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Crime (Part 4)
Episode 468
Archduke Franz Ferdinand has arrived in Sarajevo for a military inspection, alongside his wife, Sophie, on the 28th of June 1914. Unbeknownst to them…
1 year, 8 months ago
The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Victim (Part 3)
Episode 467
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, as heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was one of the most important men in the world. But he was a lonely man, not helped…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Conspiracy (Part 2)
Episode 466
Gavrilo Princip, having been sent to school in Sarajevo, has become mixed up with the wrong crowd, and is now entangled in a secret Serbian nationali…
1 year, 9 months ago
The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Killer (Part 1)
Episode 465
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to one of the world’s greatest empires, in June 1914, set in motion a series of events that would…
1 year, 9 months ago