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A journey through the Great War

Footsteps of the fallen Matt Dixon

    • History
    • 4.8 • 22 Ratings

A journey through the Great War

    Festubert - a walk round a battlefield

    Festubert - a walk round a battlefield

    In this episode, recorded live on the battlefields, we are at Festubert, the forgotten battle of 1915, and we visit some of the cemeteries around the battlefield to hear the personal stories of the men buried within them. 

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    • 1 hr 7 min
    The Devil's breath

    The Devil's breath

    Welcome to Season 7!

    In our first episode, we look at poison gas, its development and use on the battlefield, and how the science of chemical weapons saw the militarisation of academia in the pursuit of developing more lethal and deadly weapons.

    We discover how the Allies combated the German gas threat, what it was like to be a gas victim and how a common garden pest was, in fact, nature's most effective gas detector. 

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    • 1 hr 7 min
    The farm cemeteries - Ypres

    The farm cemeteries - Ypres

    Welcome to the final episode of Season 6 and our 150th podcast!

    In this episode, we look back at the podcast since it began 3 1/2 years ago, examine some of the statistics about the pod, and contemplate some of my favourite episodes that have been released.

    We then head over to Belgium and travel from Essex Farm to Elverdinghe, where we visit some of the smaller and less visited cemeteries in this part of the Ypres salient, including Talana Farm, Bleuet Farm and Ferme Olivier cemeteries. 

    The podcast will be back with Season 7 on Sunday 28th April 2024.

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    • 1 hr 14 min
    Trench Talk - Tom Isitt and the Italian Front

    Trench Talk - Tom Isitt and the Italian Front

    In this latest podcast, historian and author Tom Isitt joins us. Tom has a passion (or, he might say, obsession) with the Italian Front in the Great War. An inhospitable battlefield with appalling weather conditions and treacherous terrain, the fighting around the Isonzo River proved to be the graveyard of the Italian army in a series of 12 battles that cost hundreds of thousands of casualties.

    In this wide-ranging conversation, we talk about the fighting at Isonzo and Caporetto, the Asiago plateau, the problems of supply and fighting in the mountains, and meet a belligerent commander who dismissed no fewer than 270 Generals during the course of the War.

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    • 1 hr 12 min
    Fricourt

    Fricourt

    With the sad news of the passing of Martin Middlebrooke, this podcast heads to the Somme battlefield where we walk across the battlefield at the village of Fricourt.

    Our journey takes in some of the cemeteries and memorials that cover this part of the Somme battlefield, and we look at some of the literary figures whose output provides so many insights into Fricourt and its surroundings during the Great War, including John Masefield, Siegfried Sassoon and Bernard Adams amongst others. 

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    • 1 hr 9 min
    Special podcast update

    Special podcast update

    Many of you who listen to the podcast aren't on social media and are not followers of me on Twitter so please find attached a very brief update on what's happening with the podcast going forward.

    I posted a video on Twitter on Sunday 18th February and this is the audio recording of that video.  

    You can view the video on YouTube with the following link:
    https://youtu.be/AmNHLbK_rWk?si=TVvX8atZEBm5sSNF

    • 8 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
22 Ratings

22 Ratings

A_l_a_n_F ,

Excellent Podcast on the Great War

I thoroughly enjoy this podcast by Matt Dixon. Matt is passionate about the topic and I’ve learned so much from him. He has the ability to really connect with his listeners and his topic selections are creative and thought provoking. Listen to this podcast if you are the least bit interested in the Great War.

brion brigman ,

1915

Great podcast. I love that he does a lot on the battles of 1915 an oft forgotten year in the Great War minus Gallipoli. Thanks for providing the content

greed freedy 🥵 ,

Dissatisfied

Just not good enough

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