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World War One Episodes

  1. The Cultural Front - Ep3: Kandinsky, Khaki & Kisses

    For Radio 4, Francine Stock explores how artists responded to the outbreak of war on...

  2. The Cultural Front - Ep2 : Popular Culture

    For Radio 4, Francine Stock explores the music and images of popular culture in Russia...

  3. The Cultural Front - Ep1 : Words for Battle

    Francine Stock begins her exploration of the culture of the Great War in 1914 with the...

  4. Tanzania: Race and Colonial War

    Audrey Brown chairs a discussion on the effects of World War One in Africa.

  5. St Petersburg: Revolution

    The Romanovs ruled Russia for centuries until World War One brought revolution and an...

  6. Sound of Cinema - The First World War

    Matthew Sweet looks at music for films set against the background of WW1, including La...

  7. Soldiers of the Empire 2/2 鈥� The Fight in Fairyland

    Santanu Das tells the story of the Indian Army on the Western Front, from in where the...

  8. Soldiers of the Empire 鈥� Recruitment & Resistance

    One and a half million Indian men were recruited from the villages and towns of India...

  9. Sarajevo: Nationalism

    Exactly 100 years ago a shot rang out in Sarajevo which set the world on a path to war

  10. Nationalism The War That Changed the World

    An epic exploration of the legacy of World War One begins with this panel and audience...

  11. Music Matters - The Legacy of WW1 in Music

    How did composers such as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Alban Berg and Maurice Ravel react...

  12. Month of Madness - Vienna

    Christopher Clark continues to unpick the complex sequence of events leading to WW1.

  13. Month of Madness - The French in St Petersburg

    Christopher Clark continues to unpick the complex sequence of events during the 1914...

  14. Month of Madness - Sarajevo

    Prof Christopher Clark unpicks the complex sequence of events that led to the First...

  15. Month of Madness - London

    Professor Christopher Clark unpicks the complex sequence of events that led to WW1.

  16. Month of Madness - Berlin

    Christopher Clark unpicks the complex sequence of events during the 'July Crisis' of 1914.

  17. Minds at War - Thoughts for the Times on War and Death

    The declaration of war in 1914 was initially met with jubilation by the people of the...

  18. Minds at War - The Memorandum on the Neglect of Science

    Professor David Edgerton reflects on a WW1 clarion-call from the British scientific...

  19. Minds at War - The Grieving Parents

    Poet Ruth Padel reflects on German artist Kathe Kollwitz's memorial for her son, who...

  20. Minds at War - The Broken Wing

    Santanu Das discusses Indian poet Sarojini Naidu's 1917 collection The Broken Wing.

  21. Minds at War - Paths of Glory

    CRW Nevinson's painting Paths of Glory is a distant cry from the rallying recruitment...

  22. Minds at War - Non-Combatants and Others

    Rose Macaulay is perhaps best remembered for her final novel, The Towers of Trebizond,...

  23. Minds at War - Le Feu

    Completed in 1916, Le Feu was the first explicit account of conditions at the front.

  24. Minds at War - Fighting France

    大象传媒 Correspondent Lyse Doucet introduces novelist Edith Wharton's reportage from...

  25. Minds at War - Der Krieg

    In 1924, six years after the end of hostiliies, the painter Otto Dix, who had been a...

  26. Minds at War - Battleship Potemkin

    For Russians of director Sergei Eisenstein's generation, the experience of the First a...

  27. Keep the Home Fires Burning

    Don Black tells the fascinating story of Ivor Novello and the song that made his name.

  28. Jordan: Redrawing the Middle East

    Redrawing the Middle East and the legacy of WW1

  29. India: Imperialism

    The war and aftermath had a huge effect on India and its role in the British Empire.

  30. How Britain Went to War

    Leading Whitehall historian Peter Hennessy examines Britain's secret war planning and...

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