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Winter Olympian Rowan Cheshire joins Perry to chat about her experience in Sochi. She suffered a head injury during training and was forced to withdraw from the half-pipe competition. Perry chairs a special debate on the role Commanding Officers played in the deaths of around one million frontline soldiers during the First World War. We'll be asking why did so many soldiers have to lose their lives? Did the officers in charge actually value the lives of the troops they were commanding? Was it a case of 'lions led by donkeys'? Hear from historian and author John Lewis-Stempel; historian, teacher, Shadow Education Secretary and Stoke-on-Trent Labour MP Tristram Hunt; Staffordshire Regiment historian Jeff Elson, whose own grandfather was killed during the First World War; and a former special forces soldier Ken Griffiths, whose training included tactical analysis of historic battles.