Hosted by Terry Whenham · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 180 episodes
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Terry Whenham hosts Tales from the Battlefields, a history show with 180 episodes published.
In this episode the follow the story of 6 soldiers, 5 who died and 1 who returned home to Melbourne, across the Western Front. We listen to the words of Australian veterans as they describe the horrors of Pozieres on the
In this episode we talk to historian and author Neil Barber about the 6th Airborne Division. We discuss the men that landed on D Day and how Neil got to know them and discover their incredible stories of bravery. We hear
In this episode we visit the garden of an ancient Abbey near Caen in Normandy, the scene of the murder of 20 Canadian soldiers in the days following D Day in June 1944. Who were these young men? We pay tribute to each an
In this episode we travel to La Boisselle and follow the fortunes of the Tyneside Scottish volunteers on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1st July 1916. Who were these men? What happened to them as they went “ov
In this episode we discover the story of Lt Charles Potts, Tunnelling Officer at the Birr Cross Roads beneath the Menin Road near Ypres. Wounded in both legs, awful shell shock. What is his story? And we follow the trail
In this episode we travel to the Somme battlefield of 1st July 1916 and follow in the footsteps of the 36th Ulster Division on that day. We learn, through the eyes of the soldiers who were there, what happened as they ch
In this episode we explore the incredible story of Machine Gunner Robert Hynd, whose dead body was identified during the Battle of Arras and buried by his comrades. But it wasn’t him…he had been taken Prisoner of War and
In this episode we travel to the 1917 Arras battlefield following in the footsteps of Sgt Fred Height, 9th Royal Fusiliers. Fred was killed on the first day of the battle and has no known grave. We follow his journey fro
In this episode we travel to Vimy Ridge and discover how the Canadian Divisions came together to storm the German defences on Easter Monday 1917. We talk to Canadian historian Samantha McCrae and she explains how a Canad
In this episode we travel to the Somme battlefield of 1916 and 1918, and beyond, following in the footsteps of 5 soldiers. I tell their stories during a battlefield tour with their families. We learn how two of them were
In this episode we wander around some the small and isolated cemeteries of the Arras battlefield. We discover a tank crew with touching headstones. What is their story? And the story of the 8th Baron of Lucas, who was an
In this episode we travel to St Pol and discover a memorial to the Unknown Warrior and the tragic story of 3 soldiers buried together who were “Shot at Dawn”. What is their story? We then walk the September 1916 Somme ba
In this episode we broadcast live from the village of Ovillers, in the heart of the 1916 Somme battlefield. We discover a quiet field known as “Mash Valley”, and discover the horror and terror that men of the 8th and 12t
In this episode we continue the story of Alfred Adams. Through his own words and others from both sides of the wire, we discover what happened on 21st March 1918. This was the first day of the German Spring Offensive. Al
In this episode we follow the journey of Conscientious Objector Alfred Adams, who didn’t want to fight but became a Stretcher Bearer. We discover his story through a narrative and a series of emotional letters that he se
In this episode we explore the story of the 3rd Battalion of the Monmouthshire Regiment during 7 days on the Ypres battlefield in May 1915. We discover what Ypres looked like before it was destroyed by shellfire. We lear
In this episode we visit the Somme battlefield and discuss what happened at Mouquet Farm in August and September 1916. But not through the history books. We drill down to the awful personal experiences of the soldiers wh
In this episode we travel to the village of Zandvoorde and discover what happened to the 1st Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers on a single day during the 1st Battle of Ypres. Their story is made very personal as we
In this episode we discover the incredible story of Cecil Lewis, who lived a charmed and eventful life. We learn, through his own words, what it was like to take part in a dogfight with the Red Baron above the battlefiel
In this episode we talk to the best selling author, historian and broadcaster, Richard Van Emden about his friend Harry Patch, the Somerset man who was the last soldier to die (aged 111) who could recall the fighting in
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Tales from the Battlefields is hosted by Terry Whenham. The show is categorised under history and has published 180 episodes.
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