World War One Podcast
The events of the first truly global war and its devastating and far reaching impact.
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Minds at War - Battleship Potemkin
Wed 16 Jul 2014
For Russians of director Sergei Eisenstein's generation, the experience of the First a...
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Minds at War - Le Feu
Tue 15 Jul 2014
Completed in 1916, Le Feu was the first explicit account of conditions at the front.
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Minds at War - Thoughts for the Times on War and Death
Mon 14 Jul 2014
The declaration of war in 1914 was initially met with jubilation by the people of the...
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Minds at War - The Memorandum on the Neglect of Science
Wed 9 Jul 2014
Professor David Edgerton reflects on a WW1 clarion-call from the British scientific...
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Minds at War - Der Krieg
Tue 8 Jul 2014
In 1924, six years after the end of hostiliies, the painter Otto Dix, who had been a...
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Minds at War - Non-Combatants and Others
Mon 7 Jul 2014
Rose Macaulay is perhaps best remembered for her final novel, The Towers of Trebizond,...
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Minds at War - Paths of Glory
Sun 6 Jul 2014
CRW Nevinson's painting Paths of Glory is a distant cry from the rallying recruitment...
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Free Thinking - Oh What A Lovely Savas
Sat 5 Jul 2014
'Oh what a lovely Savas' begins Rana Mitter in this edition of Free Thinking, using...
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Free Thinking - Wood and Trees: War and Remembrance
Fri 4 Jul 2014
From Paul Nash paintings of blasted tree stumps in the first world war to today's Paul...
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Free Thinking - Balancing Power in WW1 and Now
Thu 3 Jul 2014
The First World War shattered the power balance in Europe. As we confront an uncertain...
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Free Thinking - The Thirty-Nine Steps
Wed 2 Jul 2014
John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps first appeared in Blackwoods Magazine in August on...
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Gavrilo Princip's Footprint
Tue 1 Jul 2014
On the sunny morning of June 28 1914, Gavrilo Princip shot dead the Archduke Ferdinand...
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Sound of Cinema - The First World War
Mon 30 Jun 2014
Matthew Sweet looks at music for films set against the background of WW1, including La...
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Music Matters - The Legacy of WW1 in Music
Sun 29 Jun 2014
How did composers such as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Alban Berg and Maurice Ravel react...
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Nationalism The War That Changed the World
Sat 28 Jun 2014
An epic exploration of the legacy of World War One begins with this panel and audience...
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Month of Madness - London
Fri 27 Jun 2014
Professor Christopher Clark unpicks the complex sequence of events that led to WW1.
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Month of Madness - The French in St Petersburg
Thu 26 Jun 2014
Christopher Clark continues to unpick the complex sequence of events during the 1914...
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Month of Madness - Berlin
Wed 25 Jun 2014
Christopher Clark unpicks the complex sequence of events during the 'July Crisis' of 1914.
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Month of Madness - Vienna
Tue 24 Jun 2014
Christopher Clark continues to unpick the complex sequence of events leading to WW1.
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Month of Madness - Sarajevo
Mon 23 Jun 2014
Prof Christopher Clark unpicks the complex sequence of events that led to the First...
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WW1 At Home 12 - The Football Icon and The War Poet
Tue 17 Jun 2014
The football coach and Derby County football icon stranded in Berlin during World War...
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WW1 At Home 11 - The 'White Feather' Campaign & a Popular WW1 French Tipple
Fri 6 Jun 2014
The birth of the 'White Feather' campaign in Folkestone, the pill boxes built to repel...
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WW1 At Home 10 - Medical Breakthroughs & the 'Chocolate Soldier'
Sat 31 May 2014
Medical innovation from a wartime surgeon, a soldier's satirical spin on World War and...
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WW1 At Home 9 - Wartime Drunkeness & a Belgian Refugee's Tale
Fri 23 May 2014
The wartime experiment that aimed to tackle drunkenness in Carlisle, the grandson of a...
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WW1 At Home 8 - Conscientious Objectors
Thu 15 May 2014
The 'Winchester Whisperer' 鈥� the secret newspaper produced by the Conscientious of...
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WW1 At Home 7 - The Hartlepool Bombardment & the Glasgow Rent Protests
Tue 13 May 2014
The first attack on British soil for centuries, the Govan woman who battled for a fair...
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Woman's Hour - Women and the War - A signaller's story
Mon 12 May 2014
In 1918, Annie May Martin was a telegraphist working in France. Her role with the Army...
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WW1 At Home 6 - Women's Football, Anti-German Riots & the Soldier's Song
Fri 2 May 2014
The Newcastle women's football champions who were unbeaten during the war, the Hull of...
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WW1 At Home 5 - Brighton Pavilion: a Hospital for Indian Troops
Fri 25 Apr 2014
Over a million Indian soldiers fought alongside the British Army during WW1, and were...
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WW1 At Home 4 - Nursing Heroines & Lost Treasure
Thu 17 Apr 2014
Kate Adie joins in a tribute to Elsie Knocker & Mairi Chisholm, famous nursing of the...
