Footsteps of the fallen
By Matt Dixon
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A journey through the Great War
| Episode | Date |
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Trench Talk - Jeremy Banning
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Sep 06, 2026 |
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Megiddo - Allenby's masterpiece battle
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Aug 09, 2026 |
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High Wood
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Jul 05, 2026 |
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Beaumont Hamel
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Jun 21, 2026 |
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The Battle of the Frontiers
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May 31, 2026 |
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The Battle of Dogger Bank
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May 09, 2026 |
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We seem to have destroyed the village.....Achicourt 1917
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Not a bit of cover to be seen - the Battle of Aubers
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Mar 23, 2026 |
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The Balloonatics
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Mar 01, 2026 |
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What really happened? Episode 1: The Unknown Warrior
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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The Black Stork of Flanders
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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The beginning of the end
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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Questions and answers - episode 2
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Dec 28, 2025 |
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A walk near Ypres - Polygon Wood to Hill 60
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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The Battle of the Bees
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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Trench Talk - Walking the Western Front with Briana Gervat
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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The rose and the thistle
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Questions and answers - episode 1
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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The Pool of Peace
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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Trench Talk - Sussex to the Somme with Martin Barry
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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Hill 70 - a listener's request
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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Trench talk - Uniforms of the Great War with Taff Gillingham
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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Bois Grenier
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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Faithful unto death - the story of the Chinese Labour Corps
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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In the shadow of the Springboks - Delville Wood to Courcelette
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May 18, 2025 |
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The Brickstacks
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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Fromelles
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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We don't take umbrellas to war.
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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Neuve Chapelle
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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Hohenzollern
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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Trench Talk - Chris Sams and the Battle of Jutland
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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"I can't find the damned things!" - Ploegsteert to Le Gheer
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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Out of money and out of luck - life beyond the trenches
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Dec 31, 2024 |
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Feeding Tommy
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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Liquid fire
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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He is not missing, he is here.
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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I can't say my prayers on a stolen carpet..
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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The black lions of Cantigny
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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A potato and a propellor - Amiens at war
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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Here we fight, and here we die!
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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The black day of the German army
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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All roads lead to Ypres
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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A mile and a half of history - White House to Kitchener's Wood
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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Unseen and unwanted - a colonial soldier's war
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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The man they couldn't kill.
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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Palestine
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May 26, 2024 |
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Festubert - a walk round a battlefield
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May 12, 2024 |
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The Devil's breath
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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The farm cemeteries - Ypres
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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Trench Talk - Tom Isitt and the Italian Front
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Fricourt
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Special podcast update
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Trench Talk - Roger Steward in conversation about Langemarck German Cemetery
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Where it all began - Vimy
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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Beyond the front - Kemmel
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Cambrai - one day on the battlefield
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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Cobbers - Australia on the Somme
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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Trench talk - Peter Doyle and the Princess Mary Christmas Box
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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Dud Corner - a journey through a cemetery
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Trench Talk: Jules the Poilu - in conversation with Alexandre Lyons
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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The end of the line
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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The Foresters of Flanders
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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Bunkers and bards - Boesinghe to Ypres
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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The most dangerous man I ever knew.
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Mazengarbe - a journey through a cemetery
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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Mount Sorrel
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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The Nivelle Offensive
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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Farming the front
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Le Cateau - one day in August
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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Surrender be damned! The Battle of Frezenberg Ridge
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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The sculpting soldier
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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The lost cemetery
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Fricourt to Flatiron
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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I died in hell....
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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The Astrologer of Flanders
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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Mr Tickler's Suicide Squad
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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Trench Talk: Dr Lindsey Fitzharris - The Facemaker
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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Le Touret - a journey through a cemetery
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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The sound of sadness - a journey round The Birdcage
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May 28, 2023 |
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Was I brave?
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May 21, 2023 |
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"Take one more step and I'll bloody shoot you!" - Aubers Ridge
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May 14, 2023 |
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Trench Talk: William Stroock - "Blackjack"
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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Conchies - the men who wouldn't fight
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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Gully Ravine
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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Here we fight and here we die!
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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Beyond the front - Epehy
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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God wears velvet........
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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One day in Artois
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Footsteps in the city - six magnificent memorials
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Trivial, Treatable, Terrible - medicine goes to War
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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Trench talk - Tim Godden illustrating the Great War
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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Croisilles - a journey through a cemetery
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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Suvla - catastrophe in the salt marsh
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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Carnoy - a story on the Somme
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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"No War today" - a soldier's view of the Christmas Truce
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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The Leipzig Redoubt
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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Trench Talk - Sarah Wearne: epitaphs of the Great War
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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Five years and five VCs
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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Turn left on Piccadilly - a day in the life of a British trench
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Nov 13, 2022 |
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For God and for France! The battle of Touvent Farm
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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Trench talk - Richard Dunning MBE
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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Hill 35 and the story of Fray Bentos
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Oct 23, 2022 |
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Eat Apples
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Oct 16, 2022 |
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A bloody great hole in the ground - La Boiselle
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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"Doesn't it ever get boring?"
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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"I refuse to command a Divison......" the Royal Naval Division at Gavrelle
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Sep 18, 2022 |
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Beyond the front - Givenchy
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Sep 11, 2022 |
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The week of suffering - Vimy 1917
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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Bonus Bitesize - Pond Farm
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Aug 21, 2022 |
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Cabaret Rouge - a journey through a cemetery
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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No ordinary Monday - the day of the 7 VCs
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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Trench Talk - Rory Forsyth, CEO of the Western Front Way
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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Beyond the front - Festubert
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Jul 17, 2022 |
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Mons
|
Jul 10, 2022 |
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Because dead men can advance no further....
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Jul 03, 2022 |
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Polygon Wood
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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The forgotten battlefield- Cuinchy
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Jun 12, 2022 |
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Beyond the front - Guedecourt
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Jun 05, 2022 |
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Faubourg d'Amiens - a journey through a cemetery
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May 29, 2022 |
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"To take away the taste of death" - rum, Van Blonk, and booze
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May 22, 2022 |
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Trench talk with Helen Roberts: A little piece of Australia
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May 15, 2022 |
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The 48 hour VCs
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May 08, 2022 |
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Beyond the front - Fampoux
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May 01, 2022 |
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So fall the flowers of Scotland - Contalmaison 1916
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Apr 10, 2022 |
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The pen is mightier than the sword
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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Trench Talk with Simon Batten - "Futile Exercise?" Britain's preparations for war
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Mar 27, 2022 |
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The Poor Man's mill
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Mar 20, 2022 |
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Bellevue Ridge - a black day for the silver ferns
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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Mesopotamia - the forgotten front
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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Private X and the Immortals of Festubert
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Feb 27, 2022 |
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Retreat? Hell, we just got here! - Belleau Wood
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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Trench Talk - The Doughboys with Mike Cunha
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Feb 13, 2022 |
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Hellfire Jack and the Manchester Moles
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Feb 06, 2022 |
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Cropper's Craters
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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The fields of fire - Hooge 1915
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Jan 23, 2022 |
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Point du Jour - a journey through a cemetery
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Jan 16, 2022 |
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The fight in the farmyard
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Jan 02, 2022 |
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Christmas tales - turkeys, trench raids and tee shots
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Dec 26, 2021 |
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Beaucourt - the day the sailors died
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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The souvenir king
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Dec 12, 2021 |
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Trench talk - The village with the gun with Dr Irfan Malik
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Dec 05, 2021 |
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Till we meet beyond the grave.
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Nov 28, 2021 |
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The Indians are coming - Festubert 1914
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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The poets of Pilkem
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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Trench Talk - Paul Reed
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Nov 07, 2021 |
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A tale of two cemeteries
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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Those magnificent men - the life and death of a British airman
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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Operation Alberich
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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Bernafay Wood
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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Trench Talk - The Lone Tree of Loos with Wayne & Michelle Young
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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Caterpillar Valley
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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The winds of change - December 1915
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Sep 12, 2021 |
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Combles - the fortified village
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Sep 05, 2021 |
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The gardeners of Salonika
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Aug 29, 2021 |
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Miracle on the Marne
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Aug 22, 2021 |
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The corpse collectors
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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Guillemont - the worst place I fought at in four years of war
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Aug 08, 2021 |
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Jacka's Mob
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Aug 01, 2021 |
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Wishing you goodbye - the mystery VC
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Jul 25, 2021 |
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Monchy le Preux - the ten brave men
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Jul 18, 2021 |
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The Kitchener conspiracy
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Jul 11, 2021 |
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From the West End to the Western Front
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Jul 04, 2021 |
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Thiepval - Part 2: Trench Talk with Georgia Brusby
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Jun 27, 2021 |
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Thiepval - Part 1
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Jun 20, 2021 |
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The Bone Factory of Bellicourt
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Jun 13, 2021 |
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Who the hell is this man Livens?!
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Jun 06, 2021 |
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Trench Talk - Simon Verdegem
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May 30, 2021 |
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Dilly and the Dormouse - the mysterious world of Room 40
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May 23, 2021 |
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The sepoys on the seafront
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May 16, 2021 |
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Trones Wood
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May 09, 2021 |
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Gheluvelt - for God and for Worcester
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May 02, 2021 |
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Trench Talk - Rory Forsyth
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Apr 25, 2021 |
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The teaspoon of Talana
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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Canada's Golgotha - the crucified soldier
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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The Black Bard of Pilckem
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Mar 23, 2021 |
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Woodbine Willie - the puffing Padre
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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Trench talk - Michael Nugent and the Battle of Festubert
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Mar 09, 2021 |
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The Kaiser's Oak
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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Plugstreet - tunnels, turnips and towers - the story of a wood
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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They knew they were going to die
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Feb 18, 2021 |
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Trench talk - Lewis Moody MBE
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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The most dangerous place on earth
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Jan 26, 2021 |
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From playing field to battle field - sportsmen go to War
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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The Corpsefield - part 2
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Jan 11, 2021 |
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The Corpsefield - part 1
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Jan 03, 2021 |
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Plum duff and snowballs - a Great War Christmas
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Dec 20, 2020 |
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The worst day in our nation's history
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Dec 13, 2020 |
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Their name liveth for evermore
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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Dear God give us some cover - the battle of Aubers Ridge
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Nov 22, 2020 |
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Mons - a story of firsts and lasts
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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Delville Wood - the slaughter of the Springboks
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Nov 04, 2020 |
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The day the world turned green
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Oct 24, 2020 |
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The King of No Mans Land
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Oct 11, 2020 |
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Essex Farm: poetry, poison and poverty - a journey through a cemetery
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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The man with the donkey
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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75 acres of hell - High Wood
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Sep 20, 2020 |
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An absolute waste of life - the battle of Neuve Chapelle
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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Oxford Road: tanks and cricket - a journey through a cemetery
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Aug 22, 2020 |