Footsteps of the fallen

By Matt Dixon

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Episodes: 151

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A journey through the Great War

Episode Date
The Devil's breath
Apr 28, 2024
The farm cemeteries - Ypres
Mar 31, 2024
Trench Talk - Tom Isitt and the Italian Front
Mar 17, 2024
Fricourt
Mar 03, 2024
Special podcast update
Feb 19, 2024
Trench Talk - Roger Steward in conversation about Langemarck German Cemetery
Feb 18, 2024
Where it all began - Vimy
Feb 11, 2024
Beyond the front - Kemmel
Feb 04, 2024
Cambrai - one day on the battlefield
Jan 14, 2024
Cobbers - Australia on the Somme
Jan 07, 2024
Trench talk - Peter Doyle and the Princess Mary Christmas Box
Dec 24, 2023
Dud Corner - a journey through a cemetery
Dec 17, 2023
Trench Talk: Jules the Poilu - in conversation with Alexandre Lyons
Dec 10, 2023
The end of the line
Nov 26, 2023
The Foresters of Flanders
Nov 19, 2023
Bunkers and bards - Boesinghe to Ypres
Nov 12, 2023
The most dangerous man I ever knew.
Oct 29, 2023
Mazengarbe - a journey through a cemetery
Oct 22, 2023
Mount Sorrel
Oct 08, 2023
The Nivelle Offensive
Oct 01, 2023
Farming the front
Sep 10, 2023
Le Cateau - one day in August
Sep 03, 2023
Surrender be damned! The Battle of Frezenberg Ridge
Aug 27, 2023
The sculpting soldier
Aug 20, 2023
The lost cemetery
Aug 06, 2023
Fricourt to Flatiron
Jul 30, 2023
I died in hell....
Jul 02, 2023
The Astrologer of Flanders
Jun 25, 2023
Mr Tickler's Suicide Squad
Jun 18, 2023
Trench Talk: Dr Lindsey Fitzharris - The Facemaker
Jun 11, 2023
Le Touret - a journey through a cemetery
Jun 04, 2023
The sound of sadness - a journey round The Birdcage
May 28, 2023
Was I brave?
May 21, 2023
"Take one more step and I'll bloody shoot you!" - Aubers Ridge
May 14, 2023
Trench Talk: William Stroock - "Blackjack"
Apr 30, 2023
Conchies - the men who wouldn't fight
Apr 23, 2023
Gully Ravine
Apr 16, 2023
Here we fight and here we die!
Apr 02, 2023
Beyond the front - Epehy
Mar 26, 2023
God wears velvet........
Mar 12, 2023
One day in Artois
Mar 05, 2023
Footsteps in the city - six magnificent memorials
Feb 26, 2023
Trivial, Treatable, Terrible - medicine goes to War
Feb 19, 2023
Trench talk - Tim Godden illustrating the Great War
Feb 05, 2023
Croisilles - a journey through a cemetery
Jan 29, 2023
Suvla - catastrophe in the salt marsh
Jan 22, 2023
Carnoy - a story on the Somme
Jan 15, 2023
"No War today" - a soldier's view of the Christmas Truce
Dec 26, 2022
The Leipzig Redoubt
Dec 18, 2022
Trench Talk - Sarah Wearne: epitaphs of the Great War
Dec 11, 2022
Five years and five VCs
Dec 04, 2022
Turn left on Piccadilly - a day in the life of a British trench
Nov 13, 2022
For God and for France! The battle of Touvent Farm
Nov 06, 2022
Trench talk - Richard Dunning MBE
Oct 30, 2022
Hill 35 and the story of Fray Bentos
Oct 23, 2022
Eat Apples
Oct 16, 2022
A bloody great hole in the ground - La Boiselle
Oct 09, 2022
"Doesn't it ever get boring?"
Oct 02, 2022
"I refuse to command a Divison......" the Royal Naval Division at Gavrelle
Sep 18, 2022
Beyond the front - Givenchy
Sep 11, 2022
The week of suffering - Vimy 1917
Sep 04, 2022
Bonus Bitesize - Pond Farm
Aug 21, 2022
Cabaret Rouge - a journey through a cemetery
Aug 07, 2022
No ordinary Monday - the day of the 7 VCs
Jul 31, 2022
Trench Talk - Rory Forsyth, CEO of the Western Front Way
Jul 24, 2022
Beyond the front - Festubert
Jul 17, 2022
Mons
Jul 10, 2022
Because dead men can advance no further....
Jul 03, 2022
Polygon Wood
Jun 19, 2022
The forgotten battlefield- Cuinchy
Jun 12, 2022
Beyond the front - Guedecourt
Jun 05, 2022
Faubourg d'Amiens - a journey through a cemetery
May 29, 2022
"To take away the taste of death" - rum, Van Blonk, and booze
May 22, 2022
Trench talk with Helen Roberts: A little piece of Australia
May 15, 2022
The 48 hour VCs
May 08, 2022
Beyond the front - Fampoux
May 01, 2022
So fall the flowers of Scotland - Contalmaison 1916
Apr 10, 2022
The pen is mightier than the sword
Apr 03, 2022
Trench Talk with Simon Batten - "Futile Exercise?" Britain's preparations for war
Mar 27, 2022
The Poor Man's mill
Mar 20, 2022
Bellevue Ridge - a black day for the silver ferns
Mar 13, 2022
Mesopotamia - the forgotten front
Mar 06, 2022
Private X and the Immortals of Festubert
Feb 27, 2022
Retreat? Hell, we just got here! - Belleau Wood
Feb 20, 2022
Trench Talk - The Doughboys with Mike Cunha
Feb 13, 2022
Hellfire Jack and the Manchester Moles
Feb 06, 2022
Cropper's Craters
Jan 30, 2022
The fields of fire - Hooge 1915
Jan 23, 2022
Point du Jour - a journey through a cemetery
Jan 16, 2022
The fight in the farmyard
Jan 02, 2022
Christmas tales - turkeys, trench raids and tee shots
Dec 26, 2021
Beaucourt - the day the sailors died
Dec 19, 2021
The souvenir king
Dec 12, 2021
Trench talk - The village with the gun with Dr Irfan Malik
Dec 05, 2021
Till we meet beyond the grave.
Nov 28, 2021
The Indians are coming - Festubert 1914
Nov 21, 2021
The poets of Pilkem
Nov 14, 2021
Trench Talk - Paul Reed
Nov 07, 2021
A tale of two cemeteries
Oct 31, 2021
Those magnificent men - the life and death of a British airman
Oct 24, 2021
Operation Alberich
Oct 17, 2021
Bernafay Wood
Oct 03, 2021
Trench Talk - The Lone Tree of Loos with Wayne & Michelle Young
Sep 26, 2021
Caterpillar Valley
Sep 19, 2021
The winds of change - December 1915
Sep 12, 2021
Combles - the fortified village
Sep 05, 2021
The gardeners of Salonika
Aug 29, 2021
Miracle on the Marne
Aug 22, 2021
The corpse collectors
Aug 15, 2021
Guillemont - the worst place I fought at in four years of war
Aug 08, 2021
Jacka's Mob
Aug 01, 2021
Wishing you goodbye - the mystery VC
Jul 25, 2021
Monchy le Preux - the ten brave men
Jul 18, 2021
The Kitchener conspiracy
Jul 11, 2021
From the West End to the Western Front
Jul 04, 2021
Thiepval - Part 2: Trench Talk with Georgia Brusby
Jun 27, 2021
Thiepval - Part 1
Jun 20, 2021
The Bone Factory of Bellicourt
Jun 13, 2021
Who the hell is this man Livens?!
Jun 06, 2021
Trench Talk - Simon Verdegem
May 30, 2021
Dilly and the Dormouse - the mysterious world of Room 40
May 23, 2021
The sepoys on the seafront
May 16, 2021
Trones Wood
May 09, 2021
Gheluvelt - for God and for Worcester
May 02, 2021
Trench Talk - Rory Forsyth
Apr 25, 2021
The teaspoon of Talana
Apr 18, 2021
Canada's Golgotha - the crucified soldier
Mar 30, 2021
The Black Bard of Pilckem
Mar 23, 2021
Woodbine Willie - the puffing Padre
Mar 16, 2021
Trench talk - Michael Nugent and the Battle of Festubert
Mar 09, 2021
The Kaiser's Oak
Mar 02, 2021
Plugstreet - tunnels, turnips and towers - the story of a wood
Feb 23, 2021
They knew they were going to die
Feb 18, 2021
Trench talk - Lewis Moody MBE
Feb 01, 2021
The most dangerous place on earth
Jan 26, 2021
From playing field to battle field - sportsmen go to War
Jan 19, 2021
The Corpsefield - part 2
Jan 11, 2021
The Corpsefield - part 1
Jan 03, 2021
Plum duff and snowballs - a Great War Christmas
Dec 20, 2020
The worst day in our nation's history
Dec 13, 2020
Their name liveth for evermore
Dec 03, 2020
Dear God give us some cover - the battle of Aubers Ridge
Nov 22, 2020
Mons - a story of firsts and lasts
Nov 10, 2020
Delville Wood - the slaughter of the Springboks
Nov 04, 2020
The day the world turned green
Oct 24, 2020
The King of No Mans Land
Oct 11, 2020
Essex Farm: poetry, poison and poverty - a journey through a cemetery
Oct 05, 2020
The man with the donkey
Sep 28, 2020
75 acres of hell - High Wood
Sep 20, 2020
An absolute waste of life - the battle of Neuve Chapelle
Sep 03, 2020
Oxford Road: tanks and cricket - a journey through a cemetery
Aug 22, 2020