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Footsteps of the fallen — 194 episodes

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The Battle of the Frontiers

2

The Battle of Dogger Bank

3

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

4

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

5

The Balloonatics

6

What really happened? Episode 1: The Unknown Warrior

7

The Black Stork of Flanders

8

The beginning of the end

9

Questions and answers - episode 2

10

A walk near Ypres - Polygon Wood to Hill 60

11

The Battle of the Bees

12

Trench Talk - Walking the Western Front with Briana Gervat

13

The rose and the thistle

14

Questions and answers - episode 1

15

The Pool of Peace

16

Trench Talk - Sussex to the Somme with Martin Barry

17

Hill 70 - a listener's request

18

Trench talk - Uniforms of the Great War with Taff Gillingham

19

Bois Grenier

20

Faithful unto death - the story of the Chinese Labour Corps

21

In the shadow of the Springboks - Delville Wood to Courcelette

22

The Brickstacks

23

Fromelles

24

We don't take umbrellas to war.

25

Neuve Chapelle

26

Hohenzollern

27

Trench Talk - Chris Sams and the Battle of Jutland

28

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

29

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

30

Feeding Tommy

31

Liquid fire

32

He is not missing, he is here.

33

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

34

The black lions of Cantigny

35

A potato and a propellor - Amiens at war

36

Here we fight, and here we die!

37

The black day of the German army

38

All roads lead to Ypres

39

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

40

Unseen and unwanted - a colonial soldier's war

41

The man they couldn't kill.

42

Palestine

43

Festubert - a walk round a battlefield

44

The Devil's breath

45

The farm cemeteries - Ypres

46

Trench Talk - Tom Isitt and the Italian Front

47

Fricourt

48

Special podcast update

49

Trench Talk - Roger Steward in conversation about Langemarck German Cemetery

50

Where it all began - Vimy

51

Beyond the front - Kemmel

52

Cambrai - one day on the battlefield

53

Cobbers - Australia on the Somme

54

Trench talk - Peter Doyle and the Princess Mary Christmas Box

55

Dud Corner - a journey through a cemetery

56

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

57

The end of the line

58

The Foresters of Flanders

59

Bunkers and bards - Boesinghe to Ypres

60

The most dangerous man I ever knew.

61

Mazengarbe - a journey through a cemetery

62

Mount Sorrel

63

The Nivelle Offensive

64

Farming the front

65

Le Cateau - one day in August

66

Surrender be damned! The Battle of Frezenberg Ridge

67

The sculpting soldier

68

The lost cemetery

69

Fricourt to Flatiron

70

I died in hell....

71

The Astrologer of Flanders

72

Mr Tickler's Suicide Squad

73

Trench Talk: Dr Lindsey Fitzharris - The Facemaker

74

Le Touret - a journey through a cemetery

75

The sound of sadness - a journey round The Birdcage

76

Was I brave?

77

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

78

Trench Talk: William Stroock - "Blackjack"

79

Conchies - the men who wouldn't fight

80

Gully Ravine

81

Here we fight and here we die!

82

Beyond the front - Epehy

83

God wears velvet........

84

One day in Artois

85

Footsteps in the city - six magnificent memorials

86

Trivial, Treatable, Terrible - medicine goes to War

87

Trench talk - Tim Godden illustrating the Great War

88

Croisilles - a journey through a cemetery

89

Suvla - catastrophe in the salt marsh

90

Carnoy - a story on the Somme

91

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

92

The Leipzig Redoubt

93

Trench Talk - Sarah Wearne: epitaphs of the Great War

94

Five years and five VCs

95

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

96

For God and for France! The battle of Touvent Farm

97

Trench talk - Richard Dunning MBE

98

Hill 35 and the story of Fray Bentos

99

Eat Apples

100

A bloody great hole in the ground - La Boiselle

101

"Doesn't it ever get boring?"

102

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

103

Beyond the front - Givenchy

104

The week of suffering - Vimy 1917

105

Bonus Bitesize - Pond Farm

106

Cabaret Rouge - a journey through a cemetery

107

No ordinary Monday - the day of the 7 VCs

108

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

109

Beyond the front - Festubert

110

Mons

111

Because dead men can advance no further....

112

Polygon Wood

113

The forgotten battlefield- Cuinchy

114

Beyond the front - Guedecourt

115

Faubourg d'Amiens - a journey through a cemetery

116

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

117

Trench talk with Helen Roberts: A little piece of Australia

118

The 48 hour VCs

119

Beyond the front - Fampoux

120

So fall the flowers of Scotland - Contalmaison 1916

121

The pen is mightier than the sword

122

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

123

The Poor Man's mill

124

Bellevue Ridge - a black day for the silver ferns

125

Mesopotamia - the forgotten front

126

Private X and the Immortals of Festubert

127

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

128

Trench Talk - The Doughboys with Mike Cunha

129

Hellfire Jack and the Manchester Moles

130

Cropper's Craters

131

The fields of fire - Hooge 1915

132

Point du Jour - a journey through a cemetery

133

The fight in the farmyard

134

Christmas tales - turkeys, trench raids and tee shots

135

Beaucourt - the day the sailors died

136

The souvenir king

137

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

138

Till we meet beyond the grave.

139

The Indians are coming - Festubert 1914

140

The poets of Pilkem

141

Trench Talk - Paul Reed

142

A tale of two cemeteries

143

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

144

Operation Alberich

145

Bernafay Wood

146

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

147

Caterpillar Valley

148

The winds of change - December 1915

149

Combles - the fortified village

150

The gardeners of Salonika

151

Miracle on the Marne

152

The corpse collectors

153

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

154

Jacka's Mob

155

Wishing you goodbye - the mystery VC

156

Monchy le Preux - the ten brave men

157

The Kitchener conspiracy

158

From the West End to the Western Front

159

Thiepval - Part 2: Trench Talk with Georgia Brusby

160

Thiepval - Part 1

161

The Bone Factory of Bellicourt

162

Who the hell is this man Livens?!

163

Trench Talk - Simon Verdegem

164

Dilly and the Dormouse - the mysterious world of Room 40

165

The sepoys on the seafront

166

Trones Wood

167

Gheluvelt - for God and for Worcester

168

Trench Talk - Rory Forsyth

169

The teaspoon of Talana

170

Canada's Golgotha - the crucified soldier

171

The Black Bard of Pilckem

172

Woodbine Willie - the puffing Padre

173

Trench talk - Michael Nugent and the Battle of Festubert

174

The Kaiser's Oak

175

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

176

They knew they were going to die

177

Trench talk - Lewis Moody MBE

178

The most dangerous place on earth

179

From playing field to battle field - sportsmen go to War

180

The Corpsefield - part 2

181

The Corpsefield - part 1

182

Plum duff and snowballs - a Great War Christmas

183

The worst day in our nation's history

184

Their name liveth for evermore

185

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

186

Mons - a story of firsts and lasts

187

Delville Wood - the slaughter of the Springboks

188

The day the world turned green

189

The King of No Mans Land

190

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

191

The man with the donkey

192

75 acres of hell - High Wood

193

An absolute waste of life - the battle of Neuve Chapelle

194

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