All Episodes

Episode 143 - Characters of the war an omnibus final edition with a great deal of Smuts

Episode 142 - The winners and the losers – counting the cost

Episode 141 - Peace!

Episode 140 - General Cronje demands a St Helena mounted guard & Peace Talks back on in Pretoria

Episode 139 - Emotions run high in Vereeniging as the Boers discuss English Peace terms

Episode 138 - The Zulu massacre Boers at Holkrantz on the eve of the Vereeniging Conference

Episode 137 -Smuts meets a ragged Louis Botha and a Boer spy loses her mind momentarily

Episode 136 - Deneys Reitz receives a record promotion and General Smuts takes a cruise to Cape Town

Episode 135 - General de la Rey’s Mom turns 84 & the commandos run out of pap and vleis

Episode 134 - Commandant Potgieter’s charge at the last battle of the Boer War, as Peace Talks begin

Episode 133 - Cecil John Rhodes dies and the Boers agree to Peace Talks

Episode 132 -The Canadians last stand at Boschbult aka Harts River & the Hague suggests peace

Episode 131 -The Boers blow up a blockhouse & Lord Kitchener steams into Klerksdorp

Episode 130 - Sniping and hand grenades in Springbok

Episode 129 - Lord Methuen breaks a leg before Koos de la Rey executes soldiers

Episode 128 -The Leliefontein Massacre & de Wet runs into British trenches

Episode 127 -A treacherous spy meets his Nemesis and Jan Smuts heads for the beach

Episode 126 - Jan Smuts makes a remarkable speech & we meet the treacherous colonial Lambert Colyn

Episode 125 - A sleepy blockhouse stymies Kitchener’s New Model Drive & Jan Smuts leaves Kakamas

Episode 124 -The incredible tale of the seven foot tall Coenraad de Buys and his independent clan

Episode 123 - Major Vallentin eats his last lunch & General Botha fights his last Transvaal battle

Episode 122 - The dishonourable ex-fiancé Karel de Kock & the Witwatersrand Rifle Regiment

Episode 121 - – The Kenyan Trek Boers of Eldoret & Smuts goes swimming

Episode 120 - Reitz meets a Swiss Family Robinson & Kitchener rethinks the Concentration Camp system

Episode 119 - A shoot out at Mr Guest’s farm after Deneys Reitz meets his English cousin

Episode 118 - Rawlinson surprises the Boers at Bethal & de Wet receives a Christmas present

Episode 117 - General Kritzinger is captured and Marconi sends a radio message

Episode 116 -The Fawcett Commission reaches a chilling conclusion

Episode 115 – Sarah Raal rides into a trap but the dormant General de Wet awakens

Episode 114 - Sarah Raal "the lady who fought" is bloody but unbowed

Episode 113 - We meet Sarah Raal “the lady who fought” & Reitz wakes up to the threat of khaki

Episode 112 - Kekewich’s bloody battle against General de la Rey where Boshof crawls to his death

Episode 111 - Lord Kitchener and the Brat hunt a starling while de Wet broods at Blijdskap

Episode 110 - General Buller flayed by the press as Botha pulverises Benson at Bakenlaagte.

Episode 109 - Borrius loses an eye and Smuts is forced to split his force

Episode 108 - The Commando laid low by "Hottentots Bread" within striking distance of Port Elizabeth

Episode 107 - Churchill doubts Kitchener & Colonel Scobell butchers Lotter in a sheep shed

Episode 106 - The 17th Lancers survived the Charge of the Light Brigade but not the Rijk Section

Episode 105 - General Louis Botha stumbles & sleet causes chaos for Jan Smuts

Episode 104 - A hunchback leads Smuts to safety & Captain Gough's fatal cavalry charge

Episode 103 - A porcupine causes a stampede & General Smuts makes a big mistake at Murderer's Way

Episode 102 - General Smuts enters the Cape and rides straight into a Basutho ambush

Episode 101 - De Wet’s son shot by English special forces & Jan Smuts rides into view

Episode 100 - “Send the Boers to Mexico” & Scheepers rides from Desolation Valley

Episode 99 - A Devil's Gorge, an executed priest, and the madness of Breaker Morant

Episode 98 - Lord Kitchener issues an exile proclamation and de Wet lays an IED

Episode 97 - Bandits at the Southern border

Episode 96 - Blundering into a British blockhouse, the Dirty Dozen break up

Episode 95 - A Concentration Camp Commission & Maxwell has a brush with dynamite under a skirt

Episode 94 - The British break a Boer code and President Steyn is forced to flee wearing a nightcap

Episode 93 - The ruinous war costs 1.25m pounds a week & Lord Kitchener receives a telegram

Episode 92 - Methods of barbarism and Magistrate Kidwell signs an oath of neutrality

Episode 91 - Women are caught in an artillery barrage and a deadly blizzard sweeps across the veld

Episode 90 - Casualties, alcohol, prostitutes and a skirmish at an overgrazed Free State farm

Episode 89 - Emily Hobhouse pricks English consciousness & Reitz eats pork

Episode 88 - Reitz chases Mustangs on the plains and Jan Smuts becomes pessimistic

Episode 87 - The sad story of Gert Bezuidenhout (12)& Deneys Reitz starts his Quixotic Cape Quest

Episode 86 - General Louis Botha grows despondent while Reitz plays cat and mouse with the English

Episode 85 - Emily Hobhouse mobilises against the "gigantic blunder" of the Concentration Camps

Episode 84 - Captain Phillipps frets about Tommy Atkins & New Zealanders learn a Maori War Cry

Episode 83 - Boer Secret Service Spy Johanna van Warmelo and the Petticoat Commando

Episode 82 - Aborigine trackers, the Great Comet Viscara and the case of Gideon Scheepers

Episode 81 - Black participation in the Boer War and Reitz breaks a leg

Episode 80- A Boer Rodeo near Swart Ruggens & General Bindon Blood makes his dashing appearance

Episode 79 - Reitz meets the Doppers and a wild-eyed prophet as the Gold Mines chug back to life

Episode 78 - American blockhouses from Cuba and the enigma that was the pro-Boer John Tengo Jabavu

Episode 77- Kitchener’s peace talks fail and De Wet experiences a miracle

Episode 76 - Labram loses his head, darkness is De Wet’s salvation & Peace Talks begin

Episode 75 - Cowboys, Theodore Roosevelt & Americans in the Anglo-Boer War

Episode 74 - Louis Botha surprises the British near Ermelo & De Wet crosses a swamp in the Karoo.

Episode 73 - Malperd Dies, the ACC disbands & The Great De Wet Hunt begins

Episode 72 - Breaker Morant, Bulala Taylor and a British Military War Crimes Court Case

Episode 71 - Russia’s role in the Anglo-Boer War

Episode 70 -Queen Victoria dies and Emily Hobhouse travels to a Concentration Camp

Episode 69 - The Machine called Lord Kitchener sets the veld ablaze

Episode 68 - Douglas Haig ditches whiskey to hunt Kritzinger and Reitz meets a Crazy Horse.

Episode 67 - Media censorship, portable cameras and Fake Victory propaganda.

Episode 66 - Lord Kitchener perfects the Concentration Camp & Boers begin shooting traitors

Episode 65 - Mark Twain barks at Churchill as Reitz shoots a British soldier with a dumdum

Episode 64 - De Wet’s flood, de la Rey's victory & Canadians shoot up a Cape Town bar

Episode 63 - The death of the French Colonel as Vincent van Gogh’s brother fights for the Boers.

Episode 62 - The honourable French Colonel Villebois-Mareuil and his personal war

Episode 61 - Drinking coffee in Dewetsdorp while President Kruger arrives in Marseilles

Episode 60 - The heroic Canadians of Lieliefontein and Boer hero General Fourie falls

Episode 59 - Freda Schlosberg goes home as an icy rain lashes the Canadians

Episode 58 - De Wet experiences a terrible misfortune as his scouts bungle

Episode 57 - St John Brodrick’s poisoned chalice & Jan Smuts hatches an outrageous plan

Episode 56 - General Knox’s waxed moustache, rowdy Australians, 500 Maoris & Lord Kitchener censors

Episode 55 - The Concentration Camps installed and Winston Churchill wins in Oldham

Episode 54- The flimsy Oath of Neutrality collapses at the start of a Southern Spring

Episode 53 - An IED on a Transvaal railway line & London Times Shipping Records.

Episode 52 - Politics in a time of war and Freda’s brother survives a storm of bullets

Episode 51 - The Australian view of an African war and President Kruger prepares to leave

Episode 50 - The Canadians repulse an attack while Uitlanders commit a war crime

Episode 49 - Total War destroys the ZARPS at Bergendal

Episode 48 - Boer emissaries find it cold in Russia while de Wet scrambles up the Magaliesberg

Episode 47 - General Buller reappears, Louis Botha plots and "Johnny" Hamilton bungles.

Episode 46 - A German is executed and the Australians hold off Koos de la Rey.

Episode 45 - De Wet drinks a cup of bitterness while Lord Roberts’ wife upsets Queen Victoria

Episode 44 - The Mist of war descends on the Dragon Mountains and de Wet fights with his brother

Episode 43 - General Hunter hunts de Wet and Canada loses a famous son

Episode 42 - Beautiful scenery please pass the ammunition

Episode 41 - An earthquake strikes as the Battle of Diamond Hill unfolds

Episode 40 - Making Lord Kitchener’s acquaintance as de Wet’s farm burns

Episode 39 - General Buller defeats the Boers at Allemansnek and enters the Transvaal

Episode 38 - Roberts marches into Pretoria but de Wet assaults Roodewal

Episode 37 - Johannesburg falls to the British

Episode 36 - The Battle of Doornkop near Johannesburg & Churchill rides a bicycle

Episode 35 - Mafeking becomes a verb

Episode 34 - Crossing the Vaal and a Finishing Touch in Mafeking

Episode 33 - Lord Roberts takes Kroonstad & the Canadians march

Episode 32 - The English swarm over South Africa

Episode 31 - The Battle of Sanna's Post & De Wet goes after Cape Afrikaners

Episode 30 - Black & White Man’s war and scouting the place of stones

Episode 29 - Clumsy Diplomacy fails while Baden-Powell blunders in Mafeking

Episode 28 - Journalists take Bloemfontein but typhoid breaks out

Episode 27 - Oom Paul Kruger evades capture at Poplar Grove

Episode 26 - Ladysmith relieved and Buller makes film history

Episode 25 - Hlangwane, Monte Christo and a key to unlock Ladysmith

Episode 24 - Cronje surrenders to Lord Roberts

Episode 23 - Kitchener, Cronje and the Battle of Paardeberg

Episode 22 - The relief of Kimberley

Episode 21 - Lord Roberts’ Steamroller

Episode 20 - The Acre of Death part 3

Episode 19 - The Acre of death, Spion Kop part 2

Episode 18 - The Acre of death – the Battle of Spion Kop part 1

Episode 17- The centipede approaches Spion Kop

Episode 16 - Winston Churchill escapes but Spion Kop looms

Episode 15 - Ladysmith and the Music of the Guns

Episode 14 - The end of Black Week

Episode 13 - The Battle of Colenso

Episode 12 - Buller, Botha, Gandhi and Colenso

Episode 11- Magersfontein and Black Week

Episode 10 - the Battle of Modder River

Episode 9 -Kimberley and the dreaded Rhodes

Episode 8 - The Boers move south and Winston Churchill is captured

Episode 7 - General Buller splits his force

Episode 6 - "Mournful Monday" as the British suffer a major defeat

Episode 5 - Retreat from Dundee and the siege of Mafeking and Kimberley

Episode 4 - Talana Hill & Elandslaagte

Episode 3 - Troops on the move and its war

Episode 2 - Negotiations Fail

Anglo Boer War Episode 1