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Footsteps of the fallen — 197 episodes

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Megiddo - Allenby's masterpiece battle

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High Wood

3

Beaumont Hamel

4

The Battle of the Frontiers

5

The Battle of Dogger Bank

6

We seem to have destroyed the village.....Achicourt 1917

7

Not a bit of cover to be seen - the Battle of Aubers

8

The Balloonatics

9

What really happened? Episode 1: The Unknown Warrior

10

The Black Stork of Flanders

11

The beginning of the end

12

Questions and answers - episode 2

13

A walk near Ypres - Polygon Wood to Hill 60

14

The Battle of the Bees

15

Trench Talk - Walking the Western Front with Briana Gervat

16

The rose and the thistle

17

Questions and answers - episode 1

18

The Pool of Peace

19

Trench Talk - Sussex to the Somme with Martin Barry

20

Hill 70 - a listener's request

21

Trench talk - Uniforms of the Great War with Taff Gillingham

22

Bois Grenier

23

Faithful unto death - the story of the Chinese Labour Corps

24

In the shadow of the Springboks - Delville Wood to Courcelette

25

The Brickstacks

26

Fromelles

27

We don't take umbrellas to war.

28

Neuve Chapelle

29

Hohenzollern

30

Trench Talk - Chris Sams and the Battle of Jutland

31

"I can't find the damned things!" - Ploegsteert to Le Gheer

32

Out of money and out of luck - life beyond the trenches

33

Feeding Tommy

34

Liquid fire

35

He is not missing, he is here.

36

I can't say my prayers on a stolen carpet..

37

The black lions of Cantigny

38

A potato and a propellor - Amiens at war

39

Here we fight, and here we die!

40

The black day of the German army

41

All roads lead to Ypres

42

A mile and a half of history - White House to Kitchener's Wood

43

Unseen and unwanted - a colonial soldier's war

44

The man they couldn't kill.

45

Palestine

46

Festubert - a walk round a battlefield

47

The Devil's breath

48

The farm cemeteries - Ypres

49

Trench Talk - Tom Isitt and the Italian Front

50

Fricourt

51

Special podcast update

52

Trench Talk - Roger Steward in conversation about Langemarck German Cemetery

53

Where it all began - Vimy

54

Beyond the front - Kemmel

55

Cambrai - one day on the battlefield

56

Cobbers - Australia on the Somme

57

Trench talk - Peter Doyle and the Princess Mary Christmas Box

58

Dud Corner - a journey through a cemetery

59

Trench Talk: Jules the Poilu - in conversation with Alexandre Lyons

60

The end of the line

61

The Foresters of Flanders

62

Bunkers and bards - Boesinghe to Ypres

63

The most dangerous man I ever knew.

64

Mazengarbe - a journey through a cemetery

65

Mount Sorrel

66

The Nivelle Offensive

67

Farming the front

68

Le Cateau - one day in August

69

Surrender be damned! The Battle of Frezenberg Ridge

70

The sculpting soldier

71

The lost cemetery

72

Fricourt to Flatiron

73

I died in hell....

74

The Astrologer of Flanders

75

Mr Tickler's Suicide Squad

76

Trench Talk: Dr Lindsey Fitzharris - The Facemaker

77

Le Touret - a journey through a cemetery

78

The sound of sadness - a journey round The Birdcage

79

Was I brave?

80

"Take one more step and I'll bloody shoot you!" - Aubers Ridge

81

Trench Talk: William Stroock - "Blackjack"

82

Conchies - the men who wouldn't fight

83

Gully Ravine

84

Here we fight and here we die!

85

Beyond the front - Epehy

86

God wears velvet........

87

One day in Artois

88

Footsteps in the city - six magnificent memorials

89

Trivial, Treatable, Terrible - medicine goes to War

90

Trench talk - Tim Godden illustrating the Great War

91

Croisilles - a journey through a cemetery

92

Suvla - catastrophe in the salt marsh

93

Carnoy - a story on the Somme

94

"No War today" - a soldier's view of the Christmas Truce

95

The Leipzig Redoubt

96

Trench Talk - Sarah Wearne: epitaphs of the Great War

97

Five years and five VCs

98

Turn left on Piccadilly - a day in the life of a British trench

99

For God and for France! The battle of Touvent Farm

100

Trench talk - Richard Dunning MBE

101

Hill 35 and the story of Fray Bentos

102

Eat Apples

103

A bloody great hole in the ground - La Boiselle

104

"Doesn't it ever get boring?"

105

"I refuse to command a Divison......" the Royal Naval Division at Gavrelle

106

Beyond the front - Givenchy

107

The week of suffering - Vimy 1917

108

Bonus Bitesize - Pond Farm

109

Cabaret Rouge - a journey through a cemetery

110

No ordinary Monday - the day of the 7 VCs

111

Trench Talk - Rory Forsyth, CEO of the Western Front Way

112

Beyond the front - Festubert

113

Mons

114

Because dead men can advance no further....

115

Polygon Wood

116

The forgotten battlefield- Cuinchy

117

Beyond the front - Guedecourt

118

Faubourg d'Amiens - a journey through a cemetery

119

"To take away the taste of death" - rum, Van Blonk, and booze

120

Trench talk with Helen Roberts: A little piece of Australia

121

The 48 hour VCs

122

Beyond the front - Fampoux

123

So fall the flowers of Scotland - Contalmaison 1916

124

The pen is mightier than the sword

125

Trench Talk with Simon Batten - "Futile Exercise?" Britain's preparations for war

126

The Poor Man's mill

127

Bellevue Ridge - a black day for the silver ferns

128

Mesopotamia - the forgotten front

129

Private X and the Immortals of Festubert

130

Retreat? Hell, we just got here! - Belleau Wood

131

Trench Talk - The Doughboys with Mike Cunha

132

Hellfire Jack and the Manchester Moles

133

Cropper's Craters

134

The fields of fire - Hooge 1915

135

Point du Jour - a journey through a cemetery

136

The fight in the farmyard

137

Christmas tales - turkeys, trench raids and tee shots

138

Beaucourt - the day the sailors died

139

The souvenir king

140

Trench talk - The village with the gun with Dr Irfan Malik

141

Till we meet beyond the grave.

142

The Indians are coming - Festubert 1914

143

The poets of Pilkem

144

Trench Talk - Paul Reed

145

A tale of two cemeteries

146

Those magnificent men - the life and death of a British airman

147

Operation Alberich

148

Bernafay Wood

149

Trench Talk - The Lone Tree of Loos with Wayne & Michelle Young

150

Caterpillar Valley

151

The winds of change - December 1915

152

Combles - the fortified village

153

The gardeners of Salonika

154

Miracle on the Marne

155

The corpse collectors

156

Guillemont - the worst place I fought at in four years of war

157

Jacka's Mob

158

Wishing you goodbye - the mystery VC

159

Monchy le Preux - the ten brave men

160

The Kitchener conspiracy

161

From the West End to the Western Front

162

Thiepval - Part 2: Trench Talk with Georgia Brusby

163

Thiepval - Part 1

164

The Bone Factory of Bellicourt

165

Who the hell is this man Livens?!

166

Trench Talk - Simon Verdegem

167

Dilly and the Dormouse - the mysterious world of Room 40

168

The sepoys on the seafront

169

Trones Wood

170

Gheluvelt - for God and for Worcester

171

Trench Talk - Rory Forsyth

172

The teaspoon of Talana

173

Canada's Golgotha - the crucified soldier

174

The Black Bard of Pilckem

175

Woodbine Willie - the puffing Padre

176

Trench talk - Michael Nugent and the Battle of Festubert

177

The Kaiser's Oak

178

Plugstreet - tunnels, turnips and towers - the story of a wood

179

They knew they were going to die

180

Trench talk - Lewis Moody MBE

181

The most dangerous place on earth

182

From playing field to battle field - sportsmen go to War

183

The Corpsefield - part 2

184

The Corpsefield - part 1

185

Plum duff and snowballs - a Great War Christmas

186

The worst day in our nation's history

187

Their name liveth for evermore

188

Dear God give us some cover - the battle of Aubers Ridge

189

Mons - a story of firsts and lasts

190

Delville Wood - the slaughter of the Springboks

191

The day the world turned green

192

The King of No Mans Land

193

Essex Farm: poetry, poison and poverty - a journey through a cemetery

194

The man with the donkey

195

75 acres of hell - High Wood

196

An absolute waste of life - the battle of Neuve Chapelle

197

Oxford Road: tanks and cricket - a journey through a cemetery