The 7 Best Voices of the First World War Podcast Episodes
1) Gas
Drawing on the vivid recollections of veterans of the First World War in the sound archives of the Imperial War Museums and the BBC, Dan Snow looks at the first German chlorine gas attacks of the war....Show More
2) Gallipoli - Landings
Drawing on sound archive from the Imperial War Museums and the BBC, Dan Snow looks at the experiences of veterans of the First World War who took part in the landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles in ...Show More
3) Gallipoli - Conditions and Evacuation
Dan Snow hears soldiers experiences of the First World War as it was fought on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915 - from enduring the constant threat of shell and sniper fire, the intense heat and lack o...Show More
4) Conscientious Objectors
By mid-1916 conscription had been introduced to replenish the forces of the British Army, which was now engaged in huge and costly battles on the Western Front. Dan Snow hears first-hand accounts from...Show More
5) The Christmas Truce
An omnibus edition of five episodes of Voices of the First World War, spanning the course of the war from 1914 to 1917. Narrated by Dan Snow, this edition begins with the Christmas Truce of 1914, whe...Show More
6) Spanish Flu
It was a tragedy beyond comprehension. Soldiers who had survived the trenches, civilians who had weathered shortages and bombardment, now faced a new enemy: influenza. The virus tore through societies...Show More
7) Enter America
Dan Snow hears the recollections of US soldiers who were sent to fight in France in 1918, and looks at the reactions of British and German soldiers to their arrival. They had received formidable physi...Show More
8) 25/12/2018
In an omnibus edition of selected programmes from the final series, Dan Snow looks at some of the key events of 1918, from the German Spring Offensive in March, to the impact that the arrival of masse...Show More
9) 11 o'clock
Dan Snow presents the final episode of Voices of the First World War, veterans recall what they were doing when the armistice took effect at 11 o'clock on 11th November 1918, and how they felt now the...Show More
10) Mutiny in the High Seas Fleet
Dan Snow hears accounts of those who witnessed the restlessness, disorder and eventual mutiny of the sailors of the German High Seas Fleet in early November 1918, and recollections of one of the most ...Show More