Voices of the First World War
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Voices of the First World War
Dan Snow brings together the sound archive collections of the Imperial War Museums and the BBC to tell the story of World War I through the voices of those who were.
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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...
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'cloc...
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 No...
Open Country
'Green fields, no barbed wire, nothing…'. Those who were there recall what it felt like to be advancing at last in the autumn of 1918, after years of...
Amiens
In August 1918 after years of disappointment, bloodshed and stalemate, Allied troops launched a surprise overwhelming attack on the German Army - a sh...
Torpedo
Across 50 programmes, in a major series throughout the commemorative period, Voices of the First World War has been tracking the story of the war thro...
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...
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...
Morale and Manpower
Oral History tells a very different story to the propaganda of contemporary accounts when it comes to the state of morale in 1918. On the British side...
The Last of the Great Aces
Dan Snow looks at the war in the air in the first months of 1918, when a pilot's expertise began to matter less than an aircraft's bombing capabilitie...
Operation Michael
The return of the major series tracking the development of the First World War, presented by Dan Snow. After 40 episodes looking at the war through in...
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, th...
Out of It
William Towers describes his experiences as a seriously wounded soldier in the autumn of 1917, when his life was threatened as much by the primitive m...
The Battle of Cambrai
Members of the Tank Corps describe the excitement and rapid gains of the first day of the Battle of Cambrai, where new tactics and new technology help...
Passchendaele: John Palmer
Among the recordings made for the BBC's landmark series 'The Great War' in the early 1960s, one in particular stands out. John Palmer, a British Gunne...
Towards Passchendaele
Dan Snow, surveying the landscape around Ypres, hears the recollections of veterans of the Third Battle of Ypres, and maps their painfully slow progre...
Third Ypres - Conditions
The return of the major series tracking the development of the First World War through the sound archives of the Imperial War Museums and the BBC.
Omnibus 1917
In the first five programmes looking at 1917, Dan Snow explores the events of the year through the recollections of those who were there. As the fight...
Etaples Mutiny
There are conflicting versions of events when it comes to the British mutiny at Etaples in September 1917, from the soldiers who took part in it, to t...
Rank
Soldiers and officers speak about the issue of rank and class in the British Army of 1917, by which time many ex-public school officers had been wiped...
From Beneath: Mines at Messines
Reaching 1917, Dan Snow explores the events of the year through the recollections of those who were there. As the fighting became more and more desper...
French Mutinies
Dan Snow presents the story of WWI through the voices of those who were there.
In the Air: Bloody April
The return of the major series tracking the development of the First World War through the archives of the Imperial War Museums and the BBC.
Rea...
Omnibus 1916 Series 2
Dan Snow tracks the development of the First World War through the recollections of those who were there.
Drawing on the sound archives of the I...
After Kut
Men recall their 'death march' to Baghdad and northwards after surrender to the Ottoman Army at the end of the siege of Kut-Al-Amara in April 1916, wh...
At Rest
Dan Snow looks at what troops got up to off the battlefield, when they were out of the front line in France. British soldiers spent the majority of th...
Tanks
The very first appearance of tanks during the war was at an attack on the German held village of Flers in September 1916. It was not as successful as...
Cowardice
Gertrude Farr heard about her husband Harry Farr's execution for cowardice in October 1916 by letter, and was never given any more details of the circ...
Sheffield and the Somme
The return of the archive series tracking the development of the First World War through the recollections of those who were there.
Sheffield an...
The Somme: Over the Top
The final programme in this instalment of Voices of the First World War focuses on the first catastrophic ten minutes of the Battle of the Somme, with...
The Somme: From Sunrise to Zero Hour
The last two programmes of the week cover the Battle of the Somme. On 30th June we hear about the build up to the battle exactly 100 years ago, with d...
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 West...
Jutland
The first five programmes of Voices of the First World War 1916 explore the events of the year from the point of view of those who experienced them, f...
Verdun
Before the last survivors of the First World War passed away, the memories of many of those who fought it were captured in sound recordings. Speakers...
Kut: Sand, Mud, Mirage
Before the last survivors of the First World War passed away, the memories of many of those who fought it were captured in sound recordings. Speakers...
Salonika
Before the last survivors of the First World War passed away, the memories of many of those who fought it were captured in sound recordings. Speakers...
Battle of Loos
Before the last survivors of the First World War passed away, the memories of many of those who fought it were captured in sound recordings. Speakers...
U-Boats
Before the last survivors of the First World War passed away, the memories of many of those who fought it were captured in sound recordings. Speakers...
Home
Before the last survivors of the First World War passed away, the memories of many of those who fought it were captured in sound recordings. Speakers...
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...