Walking Ypres: Langemarck German Cemetery
We return to Flanders and walk the battlefields near the village of Langemarck across to...
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Walking Ypres: Langemarck German Cemetery
We return to Flanders and walk the battlefields near the village of Langemarck across to...
46:11
Today is Armistice Day; a century ago in 1920, the body of the Unknown Warrior was laid to rest...
19:29
The Day the Guns Fell Silent: Armistice 1918
As Remembrance Sunday approaches we look at the final day of the Great War on the Western Front....
31:25
Rudyard Kipling called the cemeteries of the Great War 'Silent Cities', these vast cities of...
40:03
Trench Chat: The Missing with John Broom
In this latest Trench Chat we talk to historian and author John Broom about his new book...
26:36
The war poet Siegfried Sassoon referred to the Missing of the First World War as 'nameless...
28:33
Ypres: A Walk to the Front Line
In this episode, we follow a route to the front line used by soldiers during the Great War....
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In this episode, we explore Tyne Cot Cemetery and Memorial. Tyne Cot, the largest British and...
38:27
This weeks episode was recorded a few weeks ago whilst on the battlefields of Flanders, and in...
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What does Passchendaele mean to us, more than a century later? In this episode, we walk an...
25:14
In this episode we walk from the Menin Road, along Maple Avenue to Sanctuary Wood British...
23:30
In this episode we walk from the village of Locre (now Loker) to Kemmel Hill in Flanders. Along...
40:19
Once the haunt of lovers, these gentle slopes on a Flanders landscape became Hill 60 to the...
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Flanders: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery
Located just off the main road on a route into Flanders, and sheltered by tall trees, this is...
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Ally Madden is joined by The Belgian Football Podcast's Scott Coyne to discuss the Belgian...
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Walking Ypres: Plugstreet Wood
South of the city of Ypres in Belgium, a large area of woodland was swallowed up in the fighting...
01:11:34
Walking Ypres: Wieltje to the Steenbeek River
In this episode, we look at how the Northumbrian Territorials were thrown into battle at Ypres in...
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The Western Front: WW1 Trench Warfare
The Great War went from a mobile war in 1914 to a static conflict with hundreds of miles of...
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On 31st July 1917 the Third Battle of Ypres - or the Battle of Passchendaele as it is often...
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More than 300 British and Commonwealth soldiers were executed 'for the sake of example'...
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