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This week’s CHANGEMAKER is MARK MASLIN, Professor of Earth System Science at UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON, and author of HOW TO SAVE OUR PLANET: THE FACTS. With the world gathering in Dubai for the next round of the UN Climate Change Conference, COP 28 (30 November to 12 December 2023), Mark's book is a timely reminder that the situation is urgent: “to save the planet and ourselves we need to be on a war footing – we need to engage every part of our society in the battle against climate change and environment destruction.”MUSIC | Power of Nature by Jonathan Slatter (PRS), Sounds Visual Music Ltd (www.soundsvisual.com/)PRODUCTION | In association with the Monthly Barometer | Producer/Presenter - Catriona Oliphant for ChromeRadio | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.COVER IMAGE | Mark Maslin in the Arctic with the Cape Farewell Youth Expedition. © Mark Maslin. FURTHER INFORMATIONMark Maslin, University College London | https://rb.gy/1abszdHow to Save Our Planet: The Facts | https://rb.gy/m0rylwThe Art of War by Sun Tzu | https://rb.gy/ej3t73Carbon Disclosure Project| https://www.cdp.netScience Based Targets initiative | https://sciencebasedtargets.org/ChromeRadio | https://chromemedia.co.uk/Monthly Barometer | https://monthlybarometer.com/
This week’s CHANGEMAKER is HAZEL GAVIGAN, Director of Communications at 4 DAY WEEK GLOBAL, which is on a mission to create a million new years of free time globally.Join us to find out how you can work 80% of your week for 100% of your pay, and be happier, healthier and more productive into the bargain! And working a reduced hour week is not just good for society and for business, it's also good for the environment. HAZEL GAVIGAN: "It's very clear to us, given the momentum that is currently behind this movement, that it's not a matter of if the four-day week will become commonplace. It's a matter of when."MUSIC | Power of Nature by Jonathan Slatter (PRS), Sounds Visual Music Ltd (www.soundsvisual.com/)PRODUCTION | In association with the Monthly Barometer | Producer/Presenter - Catriona Oliphant for ChromeRadio | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.COVER IMAGE | ©4 Day Week GlobalFURTHER INFORMATION4 Day Week Global | https://4dayweek.com/4 Day Week Global - UK Pilot | https://www.4dayweek.com/uk-pilot-resultsChromeRadio | chromemedia.co.uk/Monthly Barometer | monthlybarometer.com/
This week’s CHANGEMAKER is JESSICA SMITH, Nature Lead at the UN ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME FINANCE INITIATIVE (UNEP FI), based in Geneva. As Nature Lead, Jessica is involved in pioneering work to develop collaborative partnerships between the global financial sector and indigenous and local communities. We only have until 2030 to bring our societies back into harmony with nature, and indigenous groups are vital stewards of the world's biodiversity and carbon storage. Jessica is helping design innovative financial mechanisms such as biodiversity credits, insurance products and debt for nature swaps to recognise and reward indigenous conservation efforts. JESSICA SMITH: "We are not only in a climate emergency, we're in a nature emergency which is accelerating the climate emergency."MUSIC | Power of Nature by Jonathan Slatter (PRS), Sounds Visual Music Ltd (www.soundsvisual.com/)PRODUCTION | In association with the Monthly Barometer | Producer/Presenter - Catriona Oliphant for ChromeRadio | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.COVER IMAGE | Man from the Mashi Conservancy, a community-based natural resource management area in north-east Namibia, holding a local variety of truffle. With kind permission of Jessica Smith. For information on the Conservancy: https://www.nacso.org.na/conservancies/mashi.FURTHER INFORMATIONUnited Nations Environment Program Finance Initiative | https://www.unepfi.org/Principles for Responsible Banking | https://www.unepfi.org/banking/bankingprinciples/Principles for Sustainable Insurance | https://www.unepfi.org/psi/Biodiversity Credit Alliance | https://www.biodiversitycreditalliance.org/UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues | https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/unpfii-sessions-2.htmlChromeRadio | https://chromemedia.co.uk/Monthly Barometer | https://monthlybarometer.com/
Welcome to CHANGEMAKERS with Catriona Oliphant, a new podcast series brought to you by CHROMERADIO in collaboration with the MONTHLY BAROMETER. CHANGEMAKERS was inspired by a series of conversations I had this autumn at the MONTHLY BAROMETER’s SUMMIT OF MINDS in Chamonix. What struck me was how many people were involved in exciting ventures for bringing about positive change in different aspects of our lives – in our relationship with the environment, with our fellow human beings, and in our quality of life. CHANGEMAKERS bringing rays of hope to these dark times. In this series, they tell us about their vision, their journey and the challenges along the way.In our first episode, ELLEN WINDEMUTH, founder and supervisory board chair of the WATERBEAR NETWORK, shares her journey from documentary filmmaker to launching WATERBEAR, home to award-winning impact documentaries, series, and short films and the first interactive streaming platform devoted to protecting the future of our planet.ELLEN WINDEMUTH: "We need...disruptors on WaterBear...We cannot rely on lobbies and politicians to do this all for us...This is not about our future, it's about [Gen Z's], and they have no future unless we act."MUSIC | Power of Nature by Jonathan Slatter (PRS), Sounds Visual Music Ltd (www.soundsvisual.com/)PRODUCTION | In association with the Monthly Barometer | Producer/Presenter - Catriona Oliphant for ChromeRadio | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.COVER IMAGE | ©WaterBear NetworkFURTHER INFORMATIONWaterBear Network | https://www.waterbear.com/My Octopus Teacher | https://www.netflix.com/title/81045007UN Sustainable Development Goals | https://sdgs.un.org/goalsB Corp | https://bcorporation.net/ChromeRadio | https://chromemedia.co.uk/Monthly Barometer | https://monthlybarometer.com/
On 2 April 1982, ARGENTINA invaded and occupied the FALKLAND ISLANDS, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic. So began the FALKLANDS WAR, which ended just over 10 weeks later, on 14 June 1982, when Argentinian forces surrendered to British troops at Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands.
1/7 DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S OWN GURKHA RIFLES, under BRIGADIER (then LIEUTENANT COLONEL) DAVID MORGAN, took part in the FALKLANDS CONFLICT. For the past 40 years, most of the accounts of the Gurkhas' role in that conflict have been in English. In GURKHA VOICES FROM THE FALKLANDS, we hear from Gurkha veterans in their own language, Nepali.
In this podcast, we hear from LANCE CORPORAL TANKA PRASAD LIMBU, who was a rifleman in D Company in 1982.
MUSIC & LYRICS | 'It's better to die than to be a coward' - composed & performed by Khagendra Limbu, ex Sgt, 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the Gurkha Museum | Series consultants - Brigadier David Morgan, Major Padam Angbuhang Limbu MVO & Major Dil Kumar Rai | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.
GURKHA VOICES FROM THE FALKLANDS is part of the GURKHA MUSEUM's (https://thegurkhamuseum.co.uk/) GHARMA SUNNU series of online content, bringing you tales of bravery, service and commitment from over 200 years of Gurkha service to Britain.
If you would like to help the GURKHA MUSEUM continue celebrating Gurkha heritage, please subscribe and consider making a donation via the Museum's website at https://thegurkhamuseum.co.uk/.
On 2 April 1982, ARGENTINA invaded and occupied the FALKLAND ISLANDS, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic. So began the FALKLANDS WAR, which ended just over 10 weeks later, on 14 June 1982, when Argentinian forces surrendered to British troops at Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands.
1/7 DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S OWN GURKHA RIFLES, under BRIGADIER (then LIEUTENANT COLONEL) DAVID MORGAN, took part in the FALKLANDS CONFLICT. For the past 40 years, most of the accounts of the Gurkhas' role in that conflict have been in English. In GURKHA VOICES FROM THE FALKLANDS, we hear from Gurkha veterans in their own language, Nepali.
In this podcast, we hear from 59831 COLOUR SERGEANT SHIBADHAN RAI, who was a Corporal in 1982 and a mortar fire controller in A Company.
MUSIC & LYRICS | 'It's better to die than to be a coward' - composed & performed by Khagendra Limbu, ex Sgt, 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the Gurkha Museum | Series consultants - Brigadier David Morgan, Major Padam Angbuhang Limbu MVO & Major Dil Kumar Rai | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.
GURKHA VOICES FROM THE FALKLANDS is part of the GURKHA MUSEUM's (https://thegurkhamuseum.co.uk/) GHARMA SUNNU series of online content, bringing you tales of bravery, service and commitment from over 200 years of Gurkha service to Britain.
If you would like to help the GURKHA MUSEUM continue celebrating Gurkha heritage, please subscribe and consider making a donation via the Museum's website at https://thegurkhamuseum.co.uk/.
On 2 April 1982, ARGENTINA invaded and occupied the FALKLAND ISLANDS, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic. So began the FALKLANDS WAR, which ended just over 10 weeks later, on 14 June 1982, when Argentinian forces surrendered to British troops at Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands.
1/7 DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S OWN GURKHA RIFLES, under BRIGADIER (then LIEUTENANT COLONEL) DAVID MORGAN, took part in the FALKLANDS CONFLICT. For the past 40 years, most of the accounts of the Gurkhas' role in that conflict have been in English. In GURKHA VOICES FROM THE FALKLANDS, we hear from Gurkha veterans in their own language, Nepali.
In this podcast, we hear from LIEUTENANT RABIN KUMAR RAI, who in 1982 was BRIGADIER (then Lt Colonel) MORGAN's radio operator and responsible for liaising with Battalion HQ.
MUSIC & LYRICS | 'It's better to die than to be a coward' - composed & performed by Khagendra Limbu, ex Sgt, 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the Gurkha Museum | Series consultants - Brigadier David Morgan, Major Padam Angbuhang Limbu MVO & Major Dil Kumar Rai | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.
GURKHA VOICES FROM THE FALKLANDS is part of the GURKHA MUSEUM's (https://thegurkhamuseum.co.uk/) GHARMA SUNNU series of online content, bringing you tales of bravery, service and commitment from over 200 years of Gurkha service to Britain.
If you would like to help the GURKHA MUSEUM continue celebrating Gurkha heritage, please subscribe and consider making a donation via the Museum's website at https://thegurkhamuseum.co.uk/.
On 2 April 1982, ARGENTINA invaded and occupied the FALKLAND ISLANDS, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic. So began the FALKLANDS WAR, which ended just over 10 weeks later, on 14 June 1982, when Argentinian forces surrendered to British troops at Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands.
1/7 DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S OWN GURKHA RIFLES, under BRIGADIER (then LIEUTENANT COLONEL) DAVID MORGAN, took part in the FALKLANDS CONFLICT. For the past 40 years, most of the accounts of the Gurkhas' role in that conflict have been in English. In GURKHA VOICES FROM THE FALKLANDS, we hear from Gurkha veterans in their own language, Nepali.
In this podcast, we hear from 63867 CORPORAL DHARMA RAJ RAI, who was a rifleman in B Company in 1982.
MUSIC & LYRICS | 'It's better to die than to be a coward' - composed & performed by Khagendra Limbu, ex Sgt, 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the Gurkha Museum | Series consultants - Brigadier David Morgan, Major Padam Angbuhang Limbu MVO & Major Dil Kumar Rai | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.
GURKHA VOICES FROM THE FALKLANDS is part of the GURKHA MUSEUM's (https://thegurkhamuseum.co.uk/) GHARMA SUNNU series of online content, bringing you tales of bravery, service and commitment from over 200 years of Gurkha service to Britain.
If you would like to help the GURKHA MUSEUM continue celebrating Gurkha heritage, please subscribe and consider making a donation via the Museum's website at https://thegurkhamuseum.co.uk/.
On 2 April 1982, ARGENTINA invaded and occupied the FALKLAND ISLANDS, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic. So began the FALKLANDS WAR, which ended just over 10 weeks later, on 14 June 1982, when Argentinian forces surrendered to British troops at Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands.
1/7 DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S OWN GURKHA RIFLES, under BRIGADIER (then LIEUTENANT COLONEL) DAVID MORGAN, took part in the FALKLANDS CONFLICT. For the past 40 years, most of the accounts of the Gurkhas' role in that conflict have been in English. In GURKHA VOICES FROM THE FALKLANDS, we hear from Gurkha veterans in their own language, Nepali.
In this podcast, we hear from 61356 WARRANT OFFICER CLASS 2 DEBENDRA GURUNG, who was a Section Second in Command in D Company in 1982.
MUSIC & LYRICS | 'It's better to die than to be a coward' - composed & performed by Khagendra Limbu, ex Sgt, 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the Gurkha Museum | Series consultants - Brigadier David Morgan, Major Padam Angbuhang Limbu MVO & Major Dil Kumar Rai | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.
GURKHA VOICES FROM THE FALKLANDS is part of the GURKHA MUSEUM's (https://thegurkhamuseum.co.uk/) GHARMA SUNNU series of online content, bringing you tales of bravery, service and commitment from over 200 years of Gurkha service to Britain.
If you would like to help the GURKHA MUSEUM continue celebrating Gurkha heritage, please subscribe and consider making a donation via the Museum's website at https://thegurkhamuseum.co.uk/.
On 2 April 1982, ARGENTINA invaded and occupied the FALKLAND ISLANDS, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic. So began the FALKLANDS WAR, which ended just over 10 weeks later, on 14 June 1982, when Argentinian forces surrendered to British troops at Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands.
1/7 DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S OWN GURKHA RIFLES, under BRIGADIER (then LIEUTENANT COLONEL) DAVID MORGAN, took part in the FALKLANDS CONFLICT. For the past 40 years, most of the accounts of the Gurkhas' role in that conflict have been in English. In GURKHA VOICES FROM THE FALKLANDS, we hear from Gurkha veterans in their own language, Nepali.
In this podcast, we hear from LIEUTENANT NABIN SIWA, who was a rifleman with HQ Company in 1982, with an introduction from BRIGADIER DAVID MORGAN.
MUSIC & LYRICS | 'It's better to die than to be a coward' - composed & performed by Khagendra Limbu, ex Sgt, 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the Gurkha Museum | Series consultants - Brigadier David Morgan, Major Padam Angbuhang Limbu MVO & Major Dil Kumar Rai | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.
GURKHA VOICES FROM THE FALKLANDS is part of the GURKHA MUSEUM's (https://thegurkhamuseum.co.uk/) GHARMA SUNNU series of online content, bringing you tales of bravery, service and commitment from over 200 years of Gurkha service to Britain.
If you would like to help the GURKHA MUSEUM continue celebrating Gurkha heritage, please subscribe and consider making a donation via the Museum's website at https://thegurkhamuseum.co.uk/.
On 2 April 1982, ARGENTINA invaded and occupied the FALKLAND ISLANDS, a British Overseas Territory in the South Atlantic. So began the FALKLANDS WAR, which ended just over 10 weeks later, on 14 June 1982, when Argentinian forces surrendered to British troops at Stanley, the capital of the Falkland Islands.
1/7 DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S OWN GURKHA RIFLES, commanded by BRIGADIER (then LIEUTENANT COLONEL) DAVID MORGAN, took part in the FALKLANDS CONFLICT. In this podcast, he reflects on the role of his battalion and the conduct of the campaign.
MUSIC & LYRICS | 'It's better to die than to be a coward' - composed & performed by Khagendra Limbu, ex Sgt, 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the Gurkha Museum | Series consultants - Brigadier David Morgan, Major Padam Angbuhang Limbu MVO & Major Dil Kumar Rai | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.
GURKHA VOICES FROM THE FALKLANDS is part of the GURKHA MUSEUM's (thegurkhamuseum.co.uk/) GHARMA SUNNU series of online content, bringing you tales of bravery, service and commitment from over 200 years of Gurkha service to Britain.
If you would like to help the GURKHA MUSEUM continue celebrating Gurkha heritage, please subscribe and consider making a donation via the Museum's website at thegurkhamuseum.co.uk/.
Welcome to AFGHAN DISPATCHES 07 with DIVA PATANG (https://twitter.com/DivaPatang?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) and ChromeRadio's CATRIONA OLIPHANT (https://chromemedia.co.uk/).
On 22 June 2022, eastern Afghanistan was hit by the deadliest earthquake in two decades. Already in the grips of a deepening humanitarian crisis, the country is now struggling – with the help of international agencies - to provide disaster relief to the region. But the Afghan economy is verging on collapse as a result of sanctions and the freezing of the country’s overseas assets following the Taliban takeover last August. Compounding this is the Taliban’s gradual exclusion of women from the country’s workforce: women represent nearly 50% of the country’s population and before the Taliban takeover last August made a significant contribution to its economy. In this podcast, we explore the impact of the Taliban’s restrictions on women for the country’s economy and for society more generally.
We begin with the importance of education for women. When Diva and I last spoke, it was shortly after the Taliban had suddenly reversed its decision to reopen girls’ secondary schools and those schools remain closed today. Diva had planned to sponsor girls in the area where her family are from with the essentials for going to school. I began by asking her how the Taliban’s decision not to reopen girls’ secondary schools had affected her plans.
MUSIC | National Anthem of Afghanistan (http://www.navyband.navy.mil/national_anthems.html)
PRODUCTION | Producer/Presenter - Catriona Oliphant for ChromeRadio | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.
Welcome to #STANDINGwithUKRAINE, a new podcast series from CHROMERADIO, with me Catriona Oliphant. Today, we are in BERLIN.
On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine. By the time I arrived in Berlin in late March, waves of refugees from Ukraine had been flooding into the city for some time. They found a warm welcome. Berliners had mobilised themselves to stand firmly with Ukraine. The blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag was everywhere – flying from buildings in the glorious sunshine beneath the blue Berlin sky, on hoardings, and in shop windows.
Berlin’s Central Station – the Hauptbahnhof – is at the heart of the city’s refugee welcome effort. I spoke to a couple of those involved in supporting the exhausted, disoriented refugees who arrive daily from Central and Eastern Europe.
CONTRIBUTORS | Inna & Emanuel, Berlin Arrival Support (Instagram: berlinarrivalsupport - Twitter: @BerlinArrivalS)
MUSIC | State Anthem of Ukraine by kind permission of Jonathan Slatter, Sounds Visual Music Ltd (https://www.soundsvisual.com/)
PRODUCTION | Producer/Presenter - Catriona Oliphant for ChromeRadio | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.
Welcome to AFGHAN DISPATCHES 06 with DIVA PATANG (twitter.com/DivaPatang?ref_src=…mp^serp|twgr^author) and ChromeRadio's CATRIONA OLIPHANT (https://chromemedia.co.uk/).
Last week in Afghanistan, girls of secondary school age were getting ready to return to the classroom for the first time since the Taliban took over last August. But within hours of arriving at school, they were told to go back home. The Taliban had abruptly changed its mind – at least for now. It’s not yet clear why. Officially, the Taliban has said that a decision still needs to be made on the appropriate uniform for female students. But there is also a shortage of teachers – and with segregated classes, schools will need more teachers than before the Taliban takeover.
We will discuss this backtracking by the Taliban in our next podcast, but when I last spoke to Diva, secondary schools for girls were still due to open and she was hopeful that the Taliban understood the importance of education – for girls as well as boys - for Afghanistan’s future. One of the reasons for her optimism was a photograph that had been doing the rounds on social media.
MUSIC | National Anthem of Afghanistan (http://www.navyband.navy.mil/national_anthems.html)
PRODUCTION | Producer/Presenter - Catriona Oliphant for ChromeRadio | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.
Welcome to AFGHAN DISPATCHES 05 with Professor Sir HEW STRACHAN, School of International Relations, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS (https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/international-relations/people/shfas) and ChromeRadio's CATRIONA OLIPHANT (https://chromemedia.co.uk/).
In this episode, HEW STRACHAN reflects on the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban in August 2021, why the West should have seen it coming, and the implications of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan for NATO’s European allies. US foreign policy is now focused mainly on China and the threat in the Asia Pacific. European allies of NATO will need to decide where their own interests lie. A decision which the simmering stand-off with Russia on Ukraine’s borders has brought into sharp focus.
MUSIC | National Anthem of Afghanistan (www.navyband.navy.mil/national_anthems.html)
PRODUCTION | Producer/Presenter - Catriona Oliphant for ChromeRadio | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.
For London-born AUSCHWITZ survivor LEON GREENMAN it was after the HOLOCAUST that he said his nightmare really began. Every day was an agonising struggle for survival.
To mark HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2022, the UCL CENTRE FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION, has created a podcast reflecting on Leon’s life and work, and the daily trauma of his survival.
Leon passed away in 2008 at the grand age of 97. RUTH-ANNE LENGA, Associate Professor (Teaching) and Programme Director, UCL CENTRE FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION, was privileged to be with him at that moment. Ruth-Anne’s long friendship with Leon gave her – and in turn the Centre – a rare insight into how he lived with the trauma of the past and what drove him to become a force for good despite the suffering he had endured.
Leon’s mission was to bear witness so that atrocities, such as the Holocaust, would never happen again. He spoke to thousands and thousands of people, especially young people, over his lifetime, and his testimony and humour shaped many of their lives. He also spoke to many teachers-in-training at the INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION (IOE) - UCL'S FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND SOCIETY, and the experience left a lasting impression that has stayed with them through their careers.
PRESENTER | Ruth-Anne Lenga, Associate Professor (Teaching) & Programme Director, UCL Centre for Holocaust Education.
ARCHIVE AUDIO | Testimony of Leon Greenman, licensed courtesy of USC Shoah Foundation. CONTRIBUTORS | Vicky O'Kelly, Head of RE & PSHE, Verulam School | Jack Scholes, Lytham St Anne's High School.
MUSIC | "With A Song In My Heart", Rodgers/Hart, licensed courtesy of Warner Chappell/Concord & performed by Leon Greenman | Franz Lehár "Das Land des Lachelns (The Land of Smiles), Act II: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz!" Performed by Richard Tauber (tenor), Berlin Staatskapelle & Franz Lehár, (conductor), licensed courtesy of Jube Classic.
COVER IMAGE | Photograph of Leon Greenman © Joel Redman.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio (http://www.chromemedia.co.uk/) for UCL Centre for Holocaust Education (https://holocausteducation.org.uk/) | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Assistant Producer - Corey Soper, Lecturer, UCL Centre for Holocaust Education | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.
PROFESSOR LI WEI, Director & Dean, IOE - UCL's Faculty of Education & Society, introduces a podcast celebrating the life and legacy of London-born AUSCHWITZ survivor LEON GREENMAN, created by the UCL CENTRE FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION to mark HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY 2022.
MUSIC | "With A Song In My Heart", Rodgers/Hart, licensed courtesy of Warner Chappell/Concord & performed by Leon Greenman.
COVER IMAGE | Photograph of Leon Greenman © Joel Redman.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio (https://chromemedia.co.uk/) for the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education (https://holocausteducation.org.uk/) | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Assistant Producer - Corey Soper, Lecturer, Centre for Holocaust Education | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.
Welcome to AFGHAN DISPATCHES 04 with DIVA PATANG (twitter.com/DivaPatang?ref_src=…mp^serp|twgr^author) and ChromeRadio's CATRIONA OLIPHANT (https://chromemedia.co.uk/).
It is now four months since Kabul fell to the Taliban. The fighting and the suicide bombings have diminished. But hunger now stalks the country. With jobs disappearing and salaries going unpaid, Afghans are struggling to feed their families.
MUSIC | National Anthem of Afghanistan (http://www.navyband.navy.mil/national_anthems.html)
PRODUCTION | Producer/Presenter - Catriona Oliphant for ChromeRadio | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.
Welcome to AFGHAN DISPATCHES 03 with DIVA PATANG (twitter.com/DivaPatang?ref_src=…mp^serp|twgr^author) and ChromeRadio's CATRIONA OLIPHANT (https://chromemedia.co.uk/).
September 2021 marked the 20th anniversary of 9/11 when Al-Qaeda suicide bombers flew hijacked planes into the World Trade Center in New York. In response the Bush administration announced a War on Terror. This was to be the beginning of a 20-year engagement by the US and NATO in Afghanistan.
In this episode, Diva recalls the 9/11 attacks and the impact of war on her own family. She wonders if today’s Taliban will be able to prove that they really have changed from the hardline Taliban of old.
MUSIC | National Anthem of Afghanistan (http://www.navyband.navy.mil/national_anthems.html)
PRODUCTION | Producer/Presenter - Catriona Oliphant for ChromeRadio | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.
Welcome to AFGHAN DISPATCHES 02 with DIVA PATANG (https://twitter.com/DivaPatang?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author) and ChromeRadio's CATRIONA OLIPHANT (https://chromemedia.co.uk/).
We recorded the first podcast in this series shortly before the terror attack outside Kabul airport on 26 August 2021. In this episode, Diva recalls the day of that terror attack. She speaks about Afghans' fear of a new civil war and their desire for peace and unity. She also talks about blazing a trail as one of the first women to present cricket coverage for Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA) and enabling women to experience cricket live.
MUSIC | National Anthem of Afghanistan (http://www.navyband.navy.mil/national_anthems.html) & RTA.
PRODUCTION | Producer/Presenter - Catriona Oliphant for ChromeRadio | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.
Welcome to AFGHAN DISPATCHES with ChromeRadio's CATRIONA OLIPHANT (https://chromemedia.co.uk/) and television presenter and business woman DIVA PATANG (https://twitter.com/DivaPatang?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor).
It has been heartrending following the news coming out of Afghanistan over the past few weeks, and yesterday’s terror attacks outside a packed Kabul Airport – crowded with people trying to leave the country - marks a disturbing escalation in the violence. In AFGHAN DISPATCHES, we will follow events as they unfold.
When CATRIONA OLIPHANTI visited Afghanistan in 2016 for the FINANCIAL TIMES (https://www.ft.com/content/0d05fb5e-fb1f-4b96-9b3d-50ae521a60ec) and again, on her own account, in 2019, the Afghans she spoke to were hopeful for the future. Life had improved for many since the overthrow of the Taliban in 2001, and there had been real progress as regards women’s rights. But they were realistic about the ongoing challenges – corruption, terror attacks, criminal activity – and knew that it would take time, and ongoing Western support, to build a strong civil society.
Now uncertainty lies ahead. Afghans are fearful for the future. Nobody yet knows what kind of regime this Taliban will put in place, and in particular what that regime will mean for women.
NOTE: This podcast was recorded before the terror attacks outside Kabul airport on 26 August 2021.
MUSIC | National Anthem of Afghanistan (http://www.navyband.navy.mil/national_anthems.html)
PRODUCTION | Producer/Presenter - Catriona Oliphant for ChromeRadio | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.
A WRITER'S WAR looks at how those who fought and those at home in Britain, France, Germany and former colonies of the British and French Empires responded to the First World War, the horrors of the trenches and the advent of mechanised violence.
We conclude this group of podcasts with a discussion about responses to the First World War in former colonies of the British and French Empires. CATRIONA SETH, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature and Fellow of ALL SOULS COLLEGE, chairs a conversation between PROFESSOR SANTANU DAS, Senior Research Fellow, ALL SOULS COLLEGE, and PROFESSOR TOBY GARFITT, Emeritus Fellow of MAGDALEN COLLEGE.
MUSIC with kind permission of Professor Santanu Das. Amanroop Kaur (vocals), Jasdeep Singh (dilruba) and Harleen Singh (tabla).
In 2019 OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S MEDIEVAL & MODERN LANGUAGES FACULTY ran a series of workshops, in partnership with OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY, during which Year 10 modern language students discussed a range of texts from British, French and German writers, and also arranged for the students to visit MAGDALEN COLLEGE, which holds an extensive collection of letters and other items relating to the College's participation in the First World War. Students, participating academics, and the archivists from Magdalen College then recorded their reflections for this podcast series.
A NATIONAL LOTTERY HERITAGE FUND FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY PROJECT, produced by CHROMERADIO for OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S MEDIEVAL & MODERN LANGUAGES FACULTY in partnership with Year 10 students from OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY.
A WRITER'S WAR looks at how those who fought and those at home in Britain, France, Germany and former colonies of the British and French Empires responded to the First World War, the horrors of the trenches and the advent of mechanised violence.
In the first four podcasts, we hear from Year 10 students at OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY. We begin with DULCE ET DECORUM EST. CONTRIBUTORS: William Harrison, Mariyah Hoque, Malachi Headley, Ivo Drury & Samra Rana.
MUSIC: George Butterworth, A Shropshire Lad, licensed courtesy of Naxos.
In 2019 OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S MEDIEVAL & MODERN LANGUAGES FACULTY ran a series of workshops, in partnership with OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY, during which Year 10 modern language students discussed a range of texts from British, French and German writers, and also arranged for the students to visit MAGDALEN COLLEGE, which holds an extensive collection of letters and other items relating to the College's participation in the First World War. Students, participating academics, and the archivists from Magdalen College then recorded their reflections for this podcast series.
A NATIONAL LOTTERY HERITAGE FUND FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY PROJECT, produced by CHROMERADIO for OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S MEDIEVAL & MODERN LANGUAGES FACULTY in partnership with Year 10 students from OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY.
A WRITER'S WAR looks at how those who fought and those at home in Britain, France, Germany and former colonies of the British and French Empires responded to the First World War, the horrors of the trenches and the advent of mechanised violence.
This is the second of four podcasts, in which we hear from Year 10 students at OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY. CONTRIBUTORS: Mira Harris, George Guibert, Garrincha Da Costa, Jemima Webster, Gianluca Walker.
MUSIC: Maurice Ravel, Le Tombeau de Couperin, M 68, II. Fugue, licensed courtesy of Vox Legends.
In 2019 OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S MEDIEVAL & MODERN LANGUAGES FACULTY ran a series of workshops, in partnership with OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY, during which Year 10 modern language students discussed a range of texts from British, French and German writers, and also arranged for the students to visit MAGDALEN COLLEGE, which holds an extensive collection of letters and other items relating to the College's participation in the First World War. Students, participating academics, and the archivists from Magdalen College then recorded their reflections for this podcast series.
A NATIONAL LOTTERY HERITAGE FUND FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY PROJECT, produced by CHROMERADIO for OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S MEDIEVAL & MODERN LANGUAGES FACULTY in partnership with Year 10 students from OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY.
A WRITER'S WAR looks at how those who fought and those at home in Britain, France, Germany and former colonies of the British and French Empires responded to the First World War, the horrors of the trenches and the advent of mechanised violence.
This is the third of four podcasts, in which we hear from Year 10 students at OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY. CONTRIBUTORS: Phoenix Denno, Molly Ahmad, Sofia Brand-Whitehead, Erica Masters.
MUSIC: Paul Hindemith, String Quartet No 2 in F Minor, Op. 10, II Thema mit Variationen - Gemachlich, licensed courtesy of Naxos.
In 2019 OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S MEDIEVAL & MODERN LANGUAGES FACULTY ran a series of workshops, in partnership with OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY, during which Year 10 modern language students discussed a range of texts from British, French and German writers, and also arranged for the students to visit MAGDALEN COLLEGE, which holds an extensive collection of letters and other items relating to the College's participation in the First World War. Students, participating academics, and the archivists from Magdalen College then recorded their reflections for this podcast series.
A NATIONAL LOTTERY HERITAGE FUND FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY PROJECT, produced by CHROMERADIO for OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S MEDIEVAL & MODERN LANGUAGES FACULTY in partnership with Year 10 students from OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY.
A WRITER'S WAR looks at how those who fought and those at home in Britain, France, Germany and former colonies of the British and French Empires responded to the First World War, the horrors of the trenches and the advent of mechanised violence.
This is the last of four podcasts, in which we hear from Year 10 students at OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY. CONTRIBUTORS: Barney Steel, Jake Read, Fatma Kassim, India Seal.
MUSIC: George Butterworth, The Banks of Green Willow, licensed courtesy of Naxos.
In 2019 OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S MEDIEVAL & MODERN LANGUAGES FACULTY ran a series of workshops, in partnership with OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY, during which Year 10 modern language students discussed a range of texts from British, French and German writers, and also arranged for the students to visit MAGDALEN COLLEGE, which holds an extensive collection of letters and other items relating to the College's participation in the First World War. Students, participating academics, and the archivists from Magdalen College then recorded their reflections for this podcast series.
A NATIONAL LOTTERY HERITAGE FUND FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY PROJECT, produced by CHROMERADIO for OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S MEDIEVAL & MODERN LANGUAGES FACULTY in partnership with Year 10 students from OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY.
A WRITER'S WAR looks at how those who fought and those at home in Britain, France, Germany and former colonies of the British and French Empires responded to the First World War, the horrors of the trenches and the advent of mechanised violence.
In this podcast, we hear from Prize Fellow and poet ANDREW WYNN OWEN and Senior Research Fellow PROFESSOR SANTANU DAS of All Souls College about the British response to the First World War.
MUSIC: George Butterworth, The Banks of Green Willow, licensed courtesy of Naxos.
In 2019 OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S MEDIEVAL & MODERN LANGUAGES FACULTY ran a series of workshops, in partnership with OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY, during which Year 10 modern language students discussed a range of texts from British, French and German writers, and also arranged for the students to visit MAGDALEN COLLEGE, which holds an extensive collection of letters and other items relating to the College's participation in the First World War. Students, participating academics, and the archivists from Magdalen College then recorded their reflections for this podcast series.
A NATIONAL LOTTERY HERITAGE FUND FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY PROJECT, produced by CHROMERADIO for OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S MEDIEVAL & MODERN LANGUAGES FACULTY in partnership with Year 10 students from OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY.
A WRITER'S WAR looks at how those who fought and those at home in Britain, France, Germany and former colonies of the British and French Empires responded to the First World War, the horrors of the trenches and the advent of mechanised violence.
In this podcast, we hear from PROFESSOR TOBY GARFITT, Emeritus Fellow of MAGDALEN COLLEGE, about the response in France to the First World War.
MUSIC: Maurice Ravel, Le Tombeau de Couperin, M 68, III Forlane, licensed courtesy of Vox Legends.
In 2019 OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S MEDIEVAL & MODERN LANGUAGES FACULTY ran a series of workshops, in partnership with OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY, during which Year 10 modern language students discussed a range of texts from British, French and German writers, and also arranged for the students to visit MAGDALEN COLLEGE, which holds an extensive collection of letters and other items relating to the College's participation in the First World War. Students, participating academics, and the archivists from Magdalen College then recorded their reflections for this podcast series.
A NATIONAL LOTTERY HERITAGE FUND FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY PROJECT, produced by CHROMERADIO for OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S MEDIEVAL & MODERN LANGUAGES FACULTY in partnership with Year 10 students from OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY.
A WRITER'S WAR looks at how those who fought and those at home in Britain, France, Germany and former colonies of the British and French Empires responded to the First World War, the horrors of the trenches and the advent of mechanised violence.
In this podcast, we hear from RITCHIE ROBERTSON, Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature and Fellow of THE QUEEN'S COLLEGE, about the German response to the First World War.
MUSIC: Paul Hindemith, String Quartet No 1 in C Major, Op 2, I Sehr lebhaft, licensed courtesy of Naxos.
In 2019 OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S MEDIEVAL & MODERN LANGUAGES FACULTY ran a series of workshops, in partnership with OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY, during which Year 10 modern language students discussed a range of texts from British, French and German writers, and also arranged for the students to visit MAGDALEN COLLEGE, which holds an extensive collection of letters and other items relating to the College's participation in the First World War. Students, participating academics, and the archivists from Magdalen College then recorded their reflections for this podcast series.
A NATIONAL LOTTERY HERITAGE FUND FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY PROJECT, produced by CHROMERADIO for OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S MEDIEVAL & MODERN LANGUAGES FACULTY in partnership with Year 10 students from OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY.
A WRITER'S WAR looks at how those who fought and those at home in Britain, France, Germany and former colonies of the British and French Empires responded to the First World War, the horrors of the trenches and the advent of mechanised violence.
In the final podcast in our series, we visit the archives of MAGDALEN COLLEGE to hear from archivist DR CHARLOTTE BERRY and archives assistant BEN TAYLOR about some of the items in the College's First World War collection.
MUSIC: George Butterworth, A Shropshire Lad, licensed courtesy of Naxos.
In 2019 OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S MEDIEVAL & MODERN LANGUAGES FACULTY ran a series of workshops, in partnership with OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY, during which Year 10 modern language students discussed a range of texts from British, French and German writers, and also arranged for the students to visit MAGDALEN COLLEGE, which holds an extensive collection of letters and other items relating to the College's participation in the First World War. Students, participating academics, and the archivists from Magdalen College then recorded their reflections for this podcast series.
A NATIONAL LOTTERY HERITAGE FUND FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY PROJECT, produced by CHROMERADIO for OXFORD UNIVERSITY'S MEDIEVAL & MODERN LANGUAGES FACULTY in partnership with Year 10 students from OXFORD SPIRES ACADEMY.
Known affectionately to many of those he commanded as ‘Uncle Bill’, FIELD MARSHAL VISCOUNT SLIM is widely regarded as ‘a soldier’s general’, but he was just as effective in managing relationships with those alongside and above him, as military historian ROBERT LYMAN illustrates in this podcast.
In 2011, a NATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM poll ranked him, jointly with the Duke of Wellington, as BRITAIN's GREATEST GENERAL. But despite his outstanding leadership of the 14th Army in the Burma Campaign, and his later appointment as Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), he is much less well known outside of military historical circles than, for example, his immediate predecessor as CIGS, VISCOUNT MONTGOMERY OF ALAMEIN.
This podcast was commissioned by THE GURKHA MUSEUM to complement an online exhibition on SLIM AND HIS LEADERSHIP LEGACY. Visit the MUSEUM'S website www.Thegurkhamuseum.co.uk to find out more about the history and heritage of this unique fighting force that has loyally served Great Britain for over 200 years.
DR ROBERT LYMAN FRHistS is a writer and historian. He has published widely on the Second World War in Europe, North Africa and Asia and is Field Marshal Bill Slim’s military biographer. His presentation of the case for Slim won a NATIONAL MUSEUM ARMY DEBATE in 2011 for BRITAIN'S GREATEST GENERAL and his case for Kohima/Imphal won a National Army Museum debate in 2013 for Britain’s Greatest Battle. His new account of the Burma Campaign, A WAR OF EMPIRES, is being published in November 2021. https://robertlyman.com/
ARCHIVE AUDIO | General Slim speaks at 14th Army Reunion, Royal Albert Hall, 1947 – licensed courtesy of British Pathé.
MUSIC | We’ll Meet Again sung by Vera Lynn – recording licensed courtesy of Naxos Music UK Ltd. Words & Music by Ross Parker & Hughie Charles, © Copyright 1939 Chester Music Limited trading as Dash Music Co. All Rights Reserved. International Copyright Secured.
READINGS & QUOTED SOURCES | (1) Slim’s Principles of Jungle Warfare by kind permission of the 3rd Viscount Slim; (2) George Macdonald Fraser on ‘Uncle Bill’ by kind permission of the author; (3) Unto the Hills by John Twells by kind permission of Christopher Twells; (4) Frank McLynn on Slim; (5) Antony Brett-James on Slim; (6) General Slim's Special Order of the Day, 8 April 1945, read by Meghbahadur Rai, The Gurkha Museum.
PRODUCTION | Producer - Catriona Oliphant for ChromeRadio | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MARIE-ANTOINETTE | EPISODE 3
CATRIONA SETH, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/fi…ssor-catriona-seth), heads for Paris in her pursuit of Marie-Antoinette.
First stop is the CONCIERGERIE, where Marie-Antoinette spent her final days before being executed on 16 October 1793 at the age of 37, to meet CECILE RIVES (Administratrice Conciergerie/Sainte-Chapelle/Tours de Notre-Dame de Paris http://www.paris-conciergerie.fr/en/). Then it's on to see CHANTAL THOMAS, author of best-selling novel, LES ADIEUX A LA REINE (later made into a film by BENOIT JACQUOT), and LA REINE SCELERATE, MARIE-ANTOINETTE DANS LES PAMPHLETS.
MUSIC | Excerpts from ALCESTE by GLUCK, licensed courtesy of NAXOS MUSIC UK LTD.
COVER IMAGE | Wikimedia Commons - Marie-Antoinette being taken to her execution by William Hamilton (1794).
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for TORCH (torch.ox.ac.uk/) / Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford (www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/) | Producer - Catriona Oliphant.
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MARIE-ANTOINETTE | EPISODE 1
CATRIONA SETH, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (https://www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/find-an-expert/professor-catriona-seth), visits the WALLACE COLLECTION in London on the trail of objects that once belonged to Marie-Antoinette.
With DR HELEN JACOBSEN, Senior Curator & Curator of French 18th-century Decorative Arts, the Wallace Collection, London. https://www.wallacecollection.org/
MUSIC | Excerpts from ORPHEE ET EURIDICE (Paris Version) by GLUCK, licensed courtesy of NAXOS MUSIC UK LTD.
COVER IMAGE | © Wallace Collection
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for TORCH (https://torch.ox.ac.uk/) / Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford (www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/) | Producer - Catriona Oliphant.
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MARIE-ANTOINETTE | EPISODE 2
CATRIONA SETH, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (https://www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/find-an-expert/professor-catriona-seth), visits WADDESDON MANOR in Buckinghamshire, built in the 19th century by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, a great collector of 18th century decorative arts, especially objects associated with Marie-Antoinette.
With PIPPA SHIRLEY, Head of Collections & Gardens, and curators RACHEL JACOBS & DR MIA JACKSON, WADDESDON MANOR, Buckinghamshire. waddesdon.org.uk/
MUSIC | Excerpts from HAYDN's SYMPHONY NO 85 in B-flat Major ('LA REINE'), licensed courtesy of NAXOS MUSIC UK LTD.
COVER IMAGE | © Waddesdon Manor
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for TORCH (https://torch.ox.ac.uk/) / Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford (www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/) | Producer - Catriona Oliphant.
On 15 August 1945, the surrender of Japan finally brought the Second World War to an end. War in Europe had ended a few months earlier, in May 1945, but in the jungles of Burma bitter fighting continued. The Burma campaign was one of the longest of the War, lasting over three and a half years. The Gurkhas, with their expertise in jungle warfare, played an important role.
To mark VJ Day 75, the ROYAL BRITISH LEGION working with the GURKHA MUSEUM and the ROYAL GURKHA RIFLES created this podcast and accompanying film (https://vimeo.com/showcase/6966586/video/448044440) to tell the Gurkha story of the Burma campaign in the words of those who were there. With especial thanks to Lt Col JP Cross and Buddhiman Gurung for permission to use excerpts from their interviews with veterans in GURKHAS AT WAR.
(1) INTERCEPTED AT THE SITTANG | Major Dickie Day, 4 GR SOURCE: Gurkha Museum Archive
(2) ON THE RUN | Chakrabahadur Tamang, 1/7 GR SOURCE: Gurkhas at War by JP Cross & Buddhiman Gurung Recorded at Sir John Moore Barracks, Shorncliffe on 21.07.20 Reader: Rifleman Devendra Tamang (1 RGR)
(3) ACTION ON THE IRRAWADDY | Tilbahadur Thapa, 3/2 GR SOURCE: Gurkhas at War by JP Cross & Buddhiman Gurung Recorded at Sir John Moore Barracks, Shorncliffe on 21.07.20 Reader: Lance Corporal Jeevan Thapa (1 RGR)
(4) UNDER FIRE | Harkabir Gurung, 4/1 GR SOURCE: Gurkhas at War by JP Cross & Buddhiman Gurung Recorded at Sir John Moore Barracks, Shorncliffe on 21.07.20 Reader: Rifleman Nikhil Gurung (1 RGR)
(5) CAPTURING THE FLAG | Buddhibal Gurung, 3/8 GR SOURCE: Gurkhas at War by JP Cross & Buddhiman Gurung Recorded at Sir John Moore Barracks, Shorncliffe on 21.07.20 Reader: Lance Corporal Naresh Gurung (1 RGR)
(6) JUNGLE MANOEUVRES | Chhaba Thapa, 3/6 GR SOURCE: Gurkhas at War by JP Cross & Buddhiman Gurung Recorded at Sir John Moore Barracks, Shorncliffe on 21.07.20 Reader: Lance Corporal Sujit Thapa (1 RGR)
(7) BLACK FLAGS OF SURRENDER SOURCE: A Gurkha Remembers, JP Cross (ChromeAudio)
(8) VICTORY CELEBRATIONS | Rewantbahadur Pradhat MM, 4/10 GR SOURCE: Gurkhas at War by JP Cross & Buddhiman Gurung Recorded at Sir John Moore Barracks, Shorncliffe on 21.07.20 Reader: Corporal Bijendra Gurung (3 RGR)
MUSIC | Sarara by Buddhiman Gurung
COVER IMAGE | The Gurkha Museum https://thegurkhamuseum.co.uk/summer-exhibition/
PRODUCTION | Producer - Catriona Oliphant for ChromeRadio | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.
Welcome to our new occasional series, EMERGING FROM LOCKDOWN.
In this first podcast, CHROMERADIO meets VIVIEN GODFREY, Chairman and CEO of world-famous map and travel shop, STANFORDS, based in London's Covent Garden, for a socially distanced chat about the shop's fascinating history - Florence Nightingale, Stanley, and Livingstone were customers - doing business under lockdown, and the challenges of emerging from it.
https://www.stanfords.co.uk/ http://www.bluewaterweb.com/
PRODUCTION | Presenter & Producer - Catriona Oliphant for ChromeRadio | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.
THE COAT CUPBOARD COLLECTIVE presents AT THE FIRST STROKE, STEPHEN CRITCHLOW’s uplifting and often hilarious account of his extraordinary recovery from a serious stroke earlier this year while in rehearsals for ALONE IN BERLIN at the Royal and Derngate in Northampton.
With contributions from RACHEL ATKINS, DAVID HOLT, CHRIS PAVLO and DAVID SARGENT. Especial thanks to NAXOS for its generous licensing of the CRUSH COLLISION MARCH by SCOTT JOPLIN.
A WORD FROM STEPHEN In January of this year, I had a stroke and spent time at Northampton General Hospital and University Hospital Lewisham. While in hospital, I experienced first-hand the hard work and pressure facing NHS workers. When I was back home, a writer friend of mine came to visit me. He suggested I write an account of my time in hospital. This could have a therapeutic effect, he told me, and it has.
I also wanted to give something back to our amazing NHS, all those people who come from every part of the globe, who work hard and care for us, when we can’t care for ourselves. I have therefore recorded as honestly as I can the journey of a stroke victim, some of my meetings with staff and patients along the way, and the humour and humanity I found on the hospital wards.
If you have enjoyed this podcast and would like to show your appreciation of the NHS, please visit www.justgiving.com/fundraising/atthefirststroke, where I am raising money for NHS CHARITIES TOGETHER, and give whatever you feel you can afford.
STEPHEN CRITCHLOW has been a professional actor for over 30 years and a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company no less than five times. Stage credits include Sir Peter Hall’s HAMLET (Gielgud), Ray Cooney’s PYGMALION (Albery), three years in THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS (Criterion), and CYRANO DE BERGERAC at the Royal National Theatre. Stephen has toured in many productions, including ROUND THE HORNE REVISITED (in which he played Kenneth Horne), and recently THIS HOUSE for Headlong and THE REMAINS OF THE DAY for Out of Joint. His many TV and film credits include, DOWNTON ABBEY, MIRANDA, SKINS, CIDER WITH ROSIE, RED DWARF 11, HATTIE, FANTABULOZA, THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER, LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY and CHURCHILL: THE HOLLYWOOD YEARS.
RACHEL ATKINS’ recent theatre work includes, THE COUNTRY GIRLS (Minerva Chichester), INKHEART and ROMEO AND JULIET (Home Theatre Manchester). For television, she has appeared in CHERNOBYL, THE ROOK, HUMANS, and CALL THE MIDWIFE, and films include THE LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER and THE COUNTRY GIRL. Rachel has been a member of the BBC Radio Drama Company several times and was a regular in THE ARCHERS. She has recorded numerous audiobooks as well as voice overs for video games.
DAVID HOLT studied theatre arts in Birmingham in the late 1980s, then moved London to pursue a career as a versatile actor in TV, film, theatre, radio, and as a voice artist. He has appeared in countless productions of all types over a 30+ year career, and is renowned for his animation voice work, having appeared in over 90 animated TV series.
CHRIS PAVLO has worked extensively in the voice world. He has enjoyed four seasons with the BBC Radio Drama Company, with credits ranging from THE ARCHERS to news-based comedy THE WAY IT IS. He can also be heard voicing video games, commercials, documentaries and podcasts. Chris co-founded and runs THE PODCAST COMPANY, a production house for podcasts.
DAVID SARGENT has been an actor and voice-over artist for 32 years. He shares a drama school and voice agent with Stephen Critchlow. He has worked in theatre, film, radio and television – most recently in PENNYWORTH for Warner TV, and the 2020 films THE COMPLEX and BRITISH PEOPLE.
MUSIC | THE CRUSH COLLISION MARCH by SCOTT JOPLIN, performed by BENJAMIN LOEB, licensed courtesy of NAXOS.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the Coat Cupboard Collective | Producer – Catriona Oliphant | Post-production – Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp | Tea boy – Martyn Wade.
Join NAOMI SCHILLINGER in conversation with ATHENA DUNCAN, co-founder of award-winning East London florist REBEL REBEL, on the results of the REBELLIOUS FLORAL CROWN CHALLENGE. Congratulations to our flower fairies and enigmatic felines from around the world and all our entrants at https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/headyfringeflowers/!
NAOMI SCHILLINGER | outofmyshed.co.uk/about/ REBEL REBEL | www.rebelrebel.co.uk/rebel & www.instagram.com/rebelrebele8/?hl=en CHELSEA FRINGE FESTIVAL 2020 | chelseafringe.com/event-search/
PRODUCTION | A ChromeRadio & Out of My Shed Co-Production | Presenter - Naomi Schillinger | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.
This week NAOMI SCHILLINGER takes us back the BLACKSTOCK TRIANGLE GARDENERS' DOG SHOW in May 2019 where local dogs competed for the waggiest tale, the dog that most resembled its owner, and the best floral headdress! With thanks to all our canine contributors: JESSIE, MINX, TINKERBELL, ROSA BEAR, SPIKE, BALLYDOG SCHINDLER, BILLY, GEORGE BUTCHER and LILY.
Sadly, due to COVID-19, BLACKSTOCK TRIANGLE GARDENERS can't hold a dog show this year - but, inspired by the success of last year's Best Floral Headdress for dogs, we have teamed up with East London florists REBEL REBEL for an online MOST REBELLIOUS FLOWER CROWN competition as part of the CHELSEA FRINGE! There's still time to enter - so get making those crowns!
COMPETITION DETAILS: https://outofmyshed.co.uk/2020/05/14/the-rebellious-flower-crown-competition/ ENTRY DEADLINE: MIDNIGHT - MONDAY 25 MAY 2020.
NAOMI SCHILLINGER | outofmyshed.co.uk/about/ REBEL REBEL | www.rebelrebel.co.uk/rebel & www.instagram.com/rebelrebele8/?hl=en CHELSEA FRINGE FESTIVAL 2020 | chelseafringe.com/event-search/
PRODUCTION | A ChromeRadio & Out of My Shed Co-Production | Presenter - Naomi Schillinger | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.
Join NAOMI SCHILLINGER in conversation with ATHENA DUNCAN, co-founder of award-winning East London florist REBEL REBEL on keeping those blooms coming under lockdown, making flower crowns and entering the REBELLIOUS FLORAL CROWN CHALLENGE - more details on NAOMI'S BLOG and the CHELSEA FRINGE FESTIVAL 2020 website.
NAOMI SCHILLINGER | outofmyshed.co.uk/about/ REBEL REBEL | https://www.rebelrebel.co.uk/rebel & https://www.instagram.com/rebelrebele8/?hl=en CHELSEA FRINGE FESTIVAL 2020 | http://chelseafringe.com/event-search/
PRODUCTION | A ChromeRadio & Out of My Shed Co-Production | Presenter - Naomi Schillinger | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.
Join NAOMI SCHILLINGER back in the flower garden for a riot of nasturtiums, alliums, honesty and other cottage garden favourites, not to forget those herbs!
NAOMI SCHILLINGER | outofmyshed.co.uk/about/
AVON BULBS | https://www.avonbulbs.co.uk/ HERBAL HAVEN | https://www.herbalhaven.com/
PRODUCTION | A ChromeRadio & Out of My Shed Co-Production | Presenter - Naomi Schillinger | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.
Join the BLACKSTOCK TRIANGLE GARDENERS at their socially-distanced seed and compost giveaway and hear more from gardener NAOMI SCHILLINGER on that dazzling blue kale and other gorgeous veg!
NAOMI SCHILLINGER | outofmyshed.co.uk/about/
THOMPSONS OF CREWS HILL (compost) | https://www.thompsonsofcrewshill.com/composts.html REAL SEEDS | https://www.realseeds.co.uk/
PRODUCTION | A ChromeRadio & Out of My Shed Co-Production | Presenter - Naomi Schillinger | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant at ChromeRadio & Peregrine Andrews at Moving Air.
Gardener NAOMI SCHILLINGER on creating a wild flower meadow in a suitcase and the irresistible attraction of dazzling blue kale...
NAOMI SCHILLINGER | outofmyshed.co.uk/about/
PICTORIAL MEADOWS | https://www.pictorialmeadows.co.uk/ THOMPSONS OF CREWS HILL | https://www.thompsonsofcrewshill.com/composts.html REAL SEEDS | https://www.realseeds.co.uk/
PRODUCTION | A ChromeRadio & Out of My Shed Co-Production | Presenter - Naomi Schillinger | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Peregrine Andrews.
Welcome to PEACEMAKING IN PARIS, presented by PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION and introduced by SIMON BENDRY, Director of UCL Institute of Education's First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme.
In 1919, the United States and Allied Powers met in Paris to decide the terms of the peace settlements with the defeated Central Powers. A century on, Sir Hew reflects on the Paris Peace Conference and its legacy. In the final podcast of the series, he looks at the imperial interests of Japan and the ways in which the First World War enabled Japan to further its imperial ambitions in mainland Asia and in the Pacific.
ALSO FROM UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | FROM AMIENS TO ARMISTICE (soundcloud.com/chromeradio/sets/from-amiens-to-armistice), in which PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN looks at the sequence of Allied victories from the Battle of Amiens on 8 August 1918 to the Armistice negotiated by Germany on 11 November 1918.
MUSIC | LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN (Toccata) from RAVEL, Gaspard de la nuit / Sonatine / Le Tombeau de Couperin performed by VLADO PERLEMUTER on VOX LEGENDS, licensed courtesy of NAXOS - www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp…tem_code=CDX2-5507
IMAGE | WWI Paris peace conference, May 27, 1919; from L-R British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, US President Woodrow Wilson; by Edward N Jackson, US Army Signal Corps; Wikimedia Commons.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Join gardener and blogger NAOMI SCHILLINGER and her neighbour, Simeon, as they chat over the garden fence about transforming a bramble patch into a vegetable and wild flower garden during lockdown.
NAOMI SCHILLINGER | https://outofmyshed.co.uk/about/
PRODUCTION | A ChromeRadio & Out of My Shed Co-Production | Presenter - Naomi Schillinger | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp.
Welcome to PEACEMAKING IN PARIS, presented by PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION and introduced by SIMON BENDRY, Director of UCL Institute of Education's First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme.
In 1919, the United States and Allied Powers met in Paris to decide the terms of the peace settlements with the defeated Central Powers. A century on, Sir Hew reflects on the Paris Peace Conference and its legacy. In this podcast, he explores the interests of the British Empire and its dominions in Africa and the Pacific.
ALSO FROM UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | FROM AMIENS TO ARMISTICE (soundcloud.com/chromeradio/sets/from-amiens-to-armistice), in which PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN looks at the sequence of Allied victories from the Battle of Amiens on 8 August 1918 to the Armistice negotiated by Germany on 11 November 1918.
MUSIC | LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN (Rigaudon) from RAVEL, Gaspard de la nuit / Sonatine / Le Tombeau de Couperin performed by VLADO PERLEMUTER on VOX LEGENDS, licensed courtesy of NAXOS - www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp…tem_code=CDX2-5507
IMAGE | WWI Paris peace conference, May 27, 1919; from L-R British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, US President Woodrow Wilson; by Edward N Jackson, US Army Signal Corps; Wikimedia Commons.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to PEACEMAKING IN PARIS, presented by PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION and introduced by SIMON BENDRY, Director of UCL Institute of Education's First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme.
In 1919, the United States and Allied Powers met in Paris to decide the terms of the peace settlements with the defeated Central Powers. A century on, Sir Hew reflects on the Paris Peace Conference and its legacy. In this podcast, he explores the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of the First World War and its implications for Turkey and the Middle East.
ALSO FROM UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | FROM AMIENS TO ARMISTICE (soundcloud.com/chromeradio/sets/from-amiens-to-armistice), in which PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN looks at the sequence of Allied victories from the Battle of Amiens on 8 August 1918 to the Armistice negotiated by Germany on 11 November 1918.
MUSIC | LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN (Prelude) from RAVEL, Gaspard de la nuit / Sonatine / Le Tombeau de Couperin performed by VLADO PERLEMUTER on VOX LEGENDS, licensed courtesy of NAXOS - www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp…tem_code=CDX2-5507
IMAGE | WWI Paris peace conference, May 27, 1919; from L-R British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, US President Woodrow Wilson; by Edward N Jackson, US Army Signal Corps; Wikimedia Commons.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to PEACEMAKING IN PARIS, presented by PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION and introduced by SIMON BENDRY, Director of UCL Institute of Education's First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme.
In 1919, the United States and Allied Powers met in Paris to decide the terms of the peace settlements with the defeated Central Powers. A century on, Sir Hew reflects on the Paris Peace Conference and its legacy. In this podcast, he considers President Wilson's principle of national self-determination - one of Wilson's Fourteen Points for an enduring peace - and the challenges its implementaiton presented for the peacemakers in Paris.
ALSO FROM UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | FROM AMIENS TO ARMISTICE (soundcloud.com/chromeradio/sets/from-amiens-to-armistice), in which PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN looks at the sequence of Allied victories from the Battle of Amiens on 8 August 1918 to the Armistice negotiated by Germany on 11 November 1918.
MUSIC | LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN (Toccata) from RAVEL, Gaspard de la nuit / Sonatine / Le Tombeau de Couperin performed by VLADO PERLEMUTER on VOX LEGENDS, licensed courtesy of NAXOS - www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp…tem_code=CDX2-5507
IMAGE | WWI Paris peace conference, May 27, 1919; from L-R British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, US President Woodrow Wilson; by Edward N Jackson, US Army Signal Corps; Wikimedia Commons.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to PEACEMAKING IN PARIS, presented by PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION and introduced by SIMON BENDRY, Director of UCL Institute of Education's First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme.
In 1919, the United States and Allied Powers met in Paris to decide the terms of the peace settlements with the defeated Central Powers. A century on, Sir Hew reflects on the Paris Peace Conference and its legacy. In this podcast, he considers the birth of the League of Nations and its legacy.
ALSO FROM UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | FROM AMIENS TO ARMISTICE (soundcloud.com/chromeradio/sets/from-amiens-to-armistice), in which PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN looks at the sequence of Allied victories from the Battle of Amiens on 8 August 1918 to the Armistice negotiated by Germany on 11 November 1918.
MUSIC | LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN (Menuet) from RAVEL, Gaspard de la nuit / Sonatine / Le Tombeau de Couperin performed by VLADO PERLEMUTER on VOX LEGENDS, licensed courtesy of NAXOS - www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp…tem_code=CDX2-5507
IMAGE | WWI Paris peace conference, May 27, 1919; from L-R British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, US President Woodrow Wilson; by Edward N Jackson, US Army Signal Corps; Wikimedia Commons.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to PEACEMAKING IN PARIS, presented by PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION and introduced by SIMON BENDRY, Director of UCL Institute of Education's First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme.
In 1919, the United States and Allied Powers met in Paris to decide the terms of the peace settlements with the defeated Central Powers. A century on, Sir Hew reflects on the Paris Peace Conference and its legacy. In this podcast, he considers the absence of Russia from the peace negotiations, and the implications of that absence for the rest of the 20th century.
ALSO FROM UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | FROM AMIENS TO ARMISTICE (soundcloud.com/chromeradio/sets/from-amiens-to-armistice), in which PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN looks at the sequence of Allied victories from the Battle of Amiens on 8 August 1918 to the Armistice negotiated by Germany on 11 November 1918.
MUSIC | LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN (Forlane) from RAVEL, Gaspard de la nuit / Sonatine / Le Tombeau de Couperin performed by VLADO PERLEMUTER on VOX LEGENDS, licensed courtesy of NAXOS - www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp…tem_code=CDX2-5507
IMAGE | WWI Paris peace conference, May 27, 1919; from L-R British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, US President Woodrow Wilson; by Edward N Jackson, US Army Signal Corps; Wikimedia Commons.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to PEACEMAKING IN PARIS, presented by PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION and introduced by SIMON BENDRY, Director of UCL Institute of Education's First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme.
In 1919, the United States and Allied Powers met in Paris to decide the terms of the peace settlements with the defeated Central Powers. A century on, Sir Hew reflects on the Paris Peace Conference and its legacy. In this podcast, he explores the entry of the United States onto the world stage, and the vision of a new world order developed by its President, Woodrow Wilson.
ALSO FROM UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | FROM AMIENS TO ARMISTICE (soundcloud.com/chromeradio/sets/from-amiens-to-armistice), in which PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN looks at the sequence of Allied victories from the Battle of Amiens on 8 August 1918 to the Armistice negotiated by Germany on 11 November 1918.
MUSIC | LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN (Fugue) from RAVEL, Gaspard de la nuit / Sonatine / Le Tombeau de Couperin performed by VLADO PERLEMUTER on VOX LEGENDS, licensed courtesy of NAXOS - www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp…tem_code=CDX2-5507
IMAGE | WWI Paris peace conference, May 27, 1919; from L-R British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, US President Woodrow Wilson; by Edward N Jackson, US Army Signal Corps; Wikimedia Commons.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to LETTER FROM BELFAST with Belfast writer GLENN PATTERSON, Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen's University and author of BACKSTOP LAND (https://headofzeus.com/books/9781838932022).
In this podcast, recorded in Belfast City Hall in October 2019, Glenn reflects on his friendship with Belfast poet Ciaran Carson, the impact of Brexit, and the future of Harland and Wolff.
MORE FROM GLENN PATTERSON | Brexit: the Irish Question - A Sense of Place https://soundcloud.com/chromeradio/c360-brexit-the-irish-question-a-sense-of-place-prof-glenn-patterson-14-oct-2017?in=chromeradio/sets/chrome360-brexit-the-irish
IMAGES | Glenn Patterson - Head of Zeus | Other images © ChromeRadio.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to AROUND THESE ISLANDS IN 12 PORTS, brought to you by CHROMERADIO in association with YACHT NOVA and THESE ISLANDS.
In this podcast, we hear from CAPTAIN ROGER BARKER, DIRECTOR OF NAVIGATIONAL REQUIREMENTS at TRINITY HOUSE, about how TRINITY HOUSE safeguards mariners today.
WEBLINKS Trinity House | https://www.trinityhouse.co.uk/ Maritime 2050 | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/maritime-2050-navigating-the-future Maritime and Coastguard Agency | www.gov.uk/government/organisa…d-coastguard-agency UK Hydrographic Office | https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-hydrographic-office International Association of Marine Aids to Navigation and Lighthouse Authorities (IALA) | https://www.iala-aism.org/ International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS) | http://www.imo.org/en/About/Conventions/ListOfConventions/Pages/International-Convention-for-the-Safety-of-Life-at-Sea-(SOLAS),-1974.aspx Sea Cadets | https://www.sea-cadets.org/ Sea Scouts | https://members.scouts.org.uk/supportresources/179/sea-scouting-introduction ChromeRadio | https://chromemedia.co.uk/ Nova around Britain | https://novaroundbritain.home.blog/ These Islands | https://www.these-islands.co.uk/
PRODUCTION | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to AROUND THESE ISLANDS IN 12 PORTS, brought to you by CHROMERADIO in association with YACHT NOVA and THESE ISLANDS.
in this podcast, we hear from RICHARD BALLANTYNE, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, BRITISH PORTS ASSOCIATION and TIM MORRIS, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, UK MAJOR PORTS GROUP, about the role ports play in our everyday lives, how they contribute to our national economy, and what the future holds for the sector.
WEBLINKS UKMPG | http://ukmajorports.org.uk/ BPA | https://www.britishports.org.uk/ Maritime UK | https://www.maritimeuk.org/ Maritime 2050 | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/maritime-2050-navigating-the-future Maritime and Coastguard Agency | https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/maritime-and-coastguard-agency European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) | https://www.espo.be/ International Maritime Organisation (IMO) | http://www.imo.org/en/Pages/Default.aspx ChromeRadio | https://chromemedia.co.uk/ Nova around Britain | https://novaroundbritain.home.blog/12-key-ports/ These Islands | https://www.these-islands.co.uk/
PRODUCTION | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to AROUND THESE ISLANDS IN 12 PORTS, brought to you by CHROMERADIO in association with YACHT NOVA and THESE ISLANDS.
Producer CATRIONA OLIPHANT tells the story of how this series came about.
WEBLINKS Maritime 2050 | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/maritime-2050-navigating-the-future ChromeRadio | https://chromemedia.co.uk/ Nova around Britain | https://novaroundbritain.home.blog/12-key-ports/ These Islands | https://www.these-islands.co.uk/
IMAGE | Tower Hill Memorial, CWGC, Trinity Square Gardens, London | © Chrome Media Productions Ltd
PRODUCTION | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to AROUND THESE ISLANDS IN 12 PORTS, brought to you by CHROMERADIO in association with YACHT NOVA and THESE ISLANDS.
In this podcast, we hear from NUSRAT GHANI MP, MINISTER FOR MARITIME, about MARITIME 2050, how technology is changing the way ports work and the kind of jobs available as well as how the maritime sector is tackling environmental issues.
WEBLINKS Maritime 2050 | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/maritime-2050-navigating-the-future Women in Maritime | https://www.maritimeuk.org/programmes/women-maritime/ SMarT Plus funding | https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/support-for-maritime-training Clean Maritime Plan | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clean-maritime-plan-maritime-2050-environment-route-map Towards a zero emissions future | https://capx.co/the-uk-is-leading-the-maritime-sector-to-a-zero-emissions-future/ UK Major Ports Group (UKMPG) | http://ukmajorports.org.uk/ British Ports Association (BPA) | https://www.britishports.org.uk/ Maritime UK | https://www.maritimeuk.org/ European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO) | https://www.espo.be/ International Maritime Organisation (IMO) | http://www.imo.org/en/Pages/Default.aspx ChromeRadio | https://chromemedia.co.uk/ Nova around Britain | https://novaroundbritain.home.blog/12-key-ports/ These Islands | https://www.these-islands.co.uk/
PRODUCTION | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to PEACEMAKING IN PARIS, presented by PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION and introduced by SIMON BENDRY, Director of UCL Institute of Education's First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme.
In 1919, the United States and Allied Powers met in Paris to decide the terms of the peace settlements with the defeated Central Powers. A century on, Sir Hew reflects on the Paris Peace Conference and its legacy.
In an earlier series FROM AMIENS TO ARMISTICE (https://soundcloud.com/chromeradio/sets/from-amiens-to-armistice), Sir Hew looked at the sequence of Allied victories from the Battle of Amiens on 8 August 1918 to the Armistice negotiated by Germany on 11 November 1918. In THE ROAD TO PEACE, the first podcast in this series, Sir Hew considers the process that led Germany to seek an armistice, and the basis on which Germany thought the final peace settlement would be negotiated.
MUSIC | LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN (Prelude) from RAVEL, Gaspard de la nuit / Sonatine / Le Tombeau de Couperin performed by VLADO PERLEMUTER on VOX LEGENDS, licensed courtesy of NAXOS - https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=CDX2-5507
IMAGE | WWI Paris peace conference, May 27, 1919; from L-R British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, US President Woodrow Wilson; by Edward N Jackson, US Army Signal Corps; Wikimedia Commons.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to PEACEMAKING IN PARIS, presented by PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION and introduced by SIMON BENDRY, Director of UCL Institute of Education's First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme.
In 1919, the United States and Allied Powers met in Paris to decide the terms of the peace settlements with the defeated Central Powers. A century on, Sir Hew reflects on the Paris Peace Conference and its legacy.
In an earlier series, FROM AMIENS TO ARMISTICE (https://soundcloud.com/chromeradio/sets/from-amiens-to-armistice), Sir Hew looked at the sequence of Allied victories from the Battle of Amiens on 8 August 1918 to the Armistice negotiated by Germany on 11 November 1918. In this podcast, GERMANY ON TRIAL, he considers the period from the signing of the Armistice up until 28 June 1919, when the German Republic, as it then was, signed the Treaty of Versailles with the Allies.
MUSIC | LE TOMBEAU DE COUPERIN (Rigaudon) from RAVEL, Gaspard de la nuit / Sonatine / Le Tombeau de Couperin performed by VLADO PERLEMUTER on VOX LEGENDS, licensed courtesy of NAXOS - https://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=CDX2-5507
IMAGE | WWI Paris peace conference, May 27, 1919; from L-R British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, Italian Premier Vittorio Orlando, French Premier Georges Clemenceau, US President Woodrow Wilson; by Edward N Jackson, US Army Signal Corps; Wikimedia Commons.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, DR DAVID MONGER, UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY, NEW ZEALAND, talks about propaganda and the role of the press during the First World War.
IMAGE | This cartoon was drawn by FH Townsend and published in "Punch Magazine" during August 1914. Public Domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15771019
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, LOUISE JACKSON, Professor of Modern Social History, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, talks about crime rates and policing during the First World War.
IMAGE | Police notice, Hereford Council - https://mobile.twitter.com/townsweb/status/476310285297659905. Public Domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=33308488
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, MARTIN CEADEL, Emeritus Professor of Politics, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, talks about pacifism during the First World War.
IMAGE | Wales Today http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/opposition-first-world-war-wales-8468014. Public Domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49139212
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, DR ROSIE KENNEDY, Lecturer in History, GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, talks about children's experience of the First World War.
IMAGE | Girls at play in an English village during the First World War. By British official photographer - http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//57/media-57678/large.jpg. Photograph Q 34151 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. Public Domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39612100
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, DR MARY COX, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, talks about the challenges of keeping Britain fed during the First World War.
IMAGE | Female workers pack flour in a mill at the works of Rank and Sons, Birkenhead, Cheshire, in September 1918.By Lewis G P - http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//56/media-56644/large.jpg. Photograph Q 28268 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. Public Domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24195015
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, MARTIN DAUNTON, Emeritus Professor of Economic History, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, talks about the United Kingdom in 1919 and the economic legacy of the First World War.
IMAGE | Victory march of the Allied troops in London on 19 July 1919. The procession crossing Westminster Bridge. By Beagles Postcards Leonard Bentley from Iden, East Sussex, UK. Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44969847.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, MATTHEW LEE, Head of Film, IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM, and pianist STEPHEN HORNE, discuss films of the Home Front and their music.
MUSIC | Stephen Horne.
IMAGE | Still from A Day in the Life of a Munitions Worker (1917), courtesy of the IWM: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-munitions-worker.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, PROFESSOR ADRIAN GREGORY, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, talks about religion during the First World War.
IMAGE | Black and white photograph of the altar in the mortuary chapel in King George Military Hospital, London, England. The brass cross from Queen Alexandra is decorated with moonstones and is inscribed on its base with the words "Jesus calls, now comes peace." England, 1915. By National Library of Medicine - History of Medicine - https://www.flickr.com/photos/nlmhmd/16271555552 https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41546692
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, MAGGIE ANDREWS, Professor of Cultural History, UNIVERSITY OF WORCESTER, talks about women and family life during the First World War.
IMAGE | Children on the Home Front during the First World War, by Horace Nicholls - http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//57/media-57672/large.jpg. Photograph Q 31131 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. Public Domain https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39630026
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, PROFESSOR SUSAN GRAYZEL, UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY, talks about women at war.
IMAGE | Front cover of the sheet music for the World War 1 song: "Your King and Country Want You". Photo by Richard J Myers. Public Domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=34312697
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this final podcast, we hear from NEVER SUCH INNOCENCE, which seeks to engage children and young people across the world with the centenary of the First World War through poetry, art, and song.
IMAGE | From cover of Never Such Innocence Resource Book (4th Edition) - photograph by ChromeRadio.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, DR JONATHAN BOFF, Senior Lecturer in Modern History, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM, talks about how Britain financed the First World War.
IMAGE | J Weiner Ltd, 71/5 New Oxford Street, London WC1 (printer), National War Savings Committee (publisher/sponsor) - http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//154/media-154489/large.jpg Photograph Art IWM PST 10475 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. Public Domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24234591
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, DR DEREK PATRICK, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS and DR BILLY KENEFICK, UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE, talk about the impact of the First World War on Dundee.
IMAGE | 4th Black Watch leaving Dundee in February 1915, courtesy of Dr Derek Patrick.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, PROFESSOR CHRIS WILLIAMS, Head of the College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, talks about the impact of the First World War on Wales.
IMAGE | Welsh language conscription poster - Military Service Act 1916, British Government - Parliamentary and Joint Labour Recruiting Committees (publisher/sponsor) Poster No 164. Wt W 17398/788. Photograph Art IWM PST 5029 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. Public Domain https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19415140
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, LAR JOYE, Director of Heritage at DUBLIN PORT and FEARGHAL McGARRY, Professor of Irish History, QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST, talk about the experience of the First World War in Ireland.
IMAGE | Irish Citizen Army group outside Liberty Hall, ITGWU HQ, under a banner proclaiming "We serve neither King nor Kaiser, but Ireland!". Photo taken in early years of WWI. National Library of Ireland reference Ke 198. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918.
In August 2018, students from across the United Kingdom joined students from France, the United States, Canada and Australia on the Western Front to commemorate the Battle of Amiens. The following podcasts, recorded during that battlefield tour, tell the story of the Battle of Amiens in the wider context of the First World War and the road to armistice.
In this podcast, we join PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN for the last of his morning briefings when he looks at how the Battle of Amiens triggered a series of Allied offensives that brought the war with Germany to an end just a few months later, in November 1918.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918.
In August 2018, students from across the United Kingdom joined students from France, the United States, Canada and Australia on the Western Front to commemorate the Battle of Amiens. This podcast series, recorded mostly during that battlefield tour, tell the story of the Battle of Amiens in the wider context of the First World War and the road to armistice.
In this podcast, we hear reflections from the group representing England on the tour.
MUSIC | Nimrod, Enigma Variations by Elgar - played by Theo Hayes, Stowe School and recorded by Ben Weston.
IMAGE | John Bull, World War I recruiting poster, c. 1915. By Parliamentary Recruiting Committee - http://www.walesartsreview.org/visual-arts-posters-of-the-first-world-war/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=248758
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918.
In August 2018, students from across the United Kingdom joined students from France, the United States, Canada and Australia on the Western Front to commemorate the Battle of Amiens. This podcast series, recorded mostly during that battlefield tour, tell the story of the Battle of Amiens in the wider context of the First World War and the road to armistice.
In this podcast, we hear reflections from the group representing France on the tour.
MUSIC | Marseillaise, performed by an international military band led by the CENTRAL BAND OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE during the service in Notre Dame Cathedral, Amiens, on 8 August 2018 marking the Centenary of the Battle of Amiens.
IMAGE | Lors de l'exposition Vitry ville hôpital 1914 2014. Avec l'aimable autorisation de M. le Maire pour la reproduction des affiches de la bibliothèque municipale. By G.Garitan - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35607960
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918.
In August 2018, students from across the United Kingdom joined students from France, the United States, Canada and Australia on the Western Front to commemorate the Battle of Amiens. This podcast series, recorded mostly during that battlefield tour, tell the story of the Battle of Amiens in the wider context of the First World War and the road to armistice.
In the final podcast of the series, we hear reflections from the group representing Australia on the tour.
MUSIC | Waltzing Matilda, arranged Jonathan Slatter, Sounds Visual Music.
IMAGE | A New Zealand soldier stands on the left, with an Australian soldier on the right. They are holding the flags of their countries, with a Union Jack displayed above. A banner across the flags reads 'Australian and New Zealand Army Corps'. http://bishop.slq.qld.gov.au/view/action/singleViewer.do?dvs=1303801826543~791&locale=en_US&metadata_object_ratio=4&show_metadata=true&VIEWER_URL=/view/action/singleViewer.do?&DELIVERY_RULE_ID=10&frameId=1&usePid1=true&usePid2=true, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15029437
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918.
In August 2018, students from across the United Kingdom joined students from France, the United States, Canada and Australia on the Western Front to commemorate the Battle of Amiens. This podcast series, recorded mostly during that battlefield tour, tell the story of the Battle of Amiens in the wider context of the First World War and the road to armistice.
In this podcast, PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN reflects on the last stop in the tour, the GLADE OF THE ARMISTICE in the FOREST OF COMPIEGNE.
IMAGE | This photograph was taken in the forest of Compiègne after reaching an agreement for the armistice that ended World War I. This railcar was given to Ferdinand Foch for military use by the manufacturer, Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. Foch is second from the right. Press photo published all over the world. F.ex. Jan Dąbrowski "Wielka wojna 1914-1918" ( The Great War 1914-1918) Warsaw 1937, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1870796
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918.
In August 2018, students from across the United Kingdom joined students from France, the United States, Canada and Australia on the Western Front to commemorate the Battle of Amiens. This podcast series, recorded mostly during that battlefield tour, tell the story of the Battle of Amiens in the wider context of the First World War and the road to armistice.
In this podcast, we hear how, in July 1918, the Australian commander, LT GENERAL MONASH led a successful action at LE HAMEL, which was to act as a template for the BATTLE OF AMIENS a few weeks later.
CONTRIBUTORS | Sir Hew Strachan, Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews - Paul Barnes, battlefield guide and British Army Visiting Fellow, Royal United Services Institute.
IMAGE | American and Australian troops dug in together during the Battle of Hamel. Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3013821
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918.
In August 2018, students from across the United Kingdom joined students from France, the United States, Canada and Australia on the Western Front to commemorate the Battle of Amiens. This podcast series, recorded mostly during that battlefield tour, tell the story of the Battle of Amiens in the wider context of the First World War and the road to armistice.
In this podcast, we hear reflections from the group representing Canada on the tour.
IMAGE | Canadian WW1 recruiting poster | By UBC Library Digitization Centre - https://www.flickr.com/photos/ubclibrary_digicentre/12308481676/, No restrictions, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41579550
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918.
In August 2018, students from across the United Kingdom joined students from France, the United States, Canada and Australia on the Western Front to commemorate the Battle of Amiens. This podcast series, recorded mostly during that battlefield tour, tell the story of the Battle of Amiens in the wider context of the First World War and the road to armistice.
In this podcast, we hear reflections from the group representing the US on the tour.
IMAGE | Flagg used the familiar figure of "Uncle Sam" and thus created the most famous and even today still used recruiting poster by the US Army. From April 1917 to autumn of 1918 more than four million pieces of it were printed. By Eybl, Plakatmuseum Wien/Wikimedia Commons /, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43329225
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918.
In August 2018, students from across the United Kingdom joined students from France, the United States, Canada and Australia on the Western Front to commemorate the Battle of Amiens. This podcast series, recorded mostly during that battlefield tour, tell the story of the Battle of Amiens in the wider context of the First World War and the road to armistice.
In this podcast, we hear reflections from the group representing Northern Ireland on the tour.
IMAGE | World War I recruitment poster : "The call to arms. Irishmen don't you hear it?" : David Allen & Sons Ltd., 40 Gt. Brunswick St., Dublin. - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3g10979. Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7038201
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918.
In August 2018, students from across the United Kingdom joined students from France, the United States, Canada and Australia on the Western Front to commemorate the Battle of Amiens. This podcast series, recorded mostly during that battlefield tour, tell the story of the Battle of Amiens in the wider context of the First World War and the road to armistice.
In this podcast, we hear reflections from the group representing Scotland on the tour.
IMAGE | Recruiting poster for the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. By Curr, Thomas (artist); McLagan and Cumming, Edinburgh (printer); Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (publisher/sponsor) - This is photograph Art.IWM PST 12148 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20453377
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918.
In August 2018, students from across the United Kingdom joined students from France, the United States, Canada and Australia on the Western Front to commemorate the Battle of Amiens. This podcast series, recorded mostly during that battlefield tour, tell the story of the Battle of Amiens in the wider context of the First World War and the road to armistice.
In this podcast, we join PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN on the second day of the battlefield tour for his morning briefing to the students when he considers the evolution of the War in 1918, and why the Battle of Amiens in August was such a success for the Allied Forces.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918.
In August 2018, students from across the United Kingdom joined students from France, the United States, Canada and Australia on the Western Front to commemorate the Battle of Amiens. This podcast series, recorded mostly during that battlefield tour, tell the story of the Battle of Amiens in the wider context of the First World War and the road to armistice.
In this podcast, we visit MOREUIL WOOD, the scene of a famous charge by the Canadian cavalry in March 1918, and fighting by the French XXXI Corps at the Battle of Amiens in the August.
CONTRIBUTORS | Simon Bendry, Director, First World War Centenary Battlefield Tour Programme, UCL Institute of Education - Sir Hew Strachan, Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews - Paul Barnes, battlefield guide and British Army Visiting Fellow, Royal United Services Institute.
IMAGE | Charge of Flowerdew's Squadron By Alfred Munnings - http://www.civilization.ca/cwm/exhibitions/guerre/photos/2800/19710261-0443.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15478355
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, PROFESSOR HUGH MURPHY, UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW and Visiting Reader in Maritime History, NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM, ROYAL MUSEUMS GREENWICH, talks about shipbuilding during the First World War.
IMAGE | Male and female winch operators at work at a shipbuilding yard along the River Clyde in Scotland during the First World War. By Ernest Brooks - http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//57/media-57006/large.jpgThis is photograph Q 19473 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30831925
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, DR MARTIN WILCOX, Lecturer in History, UNIVERSITY OF HULL, talks about shipping and overseas trade during the First World War.
IMAGE | Postcard of HMHS Olympic in "dazzle" pattern camouflage. By The original uploader was Jbrian80 at English Wikipedia. - Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by Britannic., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8419448
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, DR CHRISTOPHER PHILLIPS, founding member of the FIRST WORLD WAR NETWORK (fwwnetwork.wordpress.com/), talks about the railways during the First World War.
IMAGE | A woman railway worker operating the signals in a siding on the Great Central Railway in Birmingham during 1918. She is pulling a large signalling lever towards her. By Lewis, G P - http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//364/media-364922/large.jpgThis is photograph Q 28148 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30832754
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, DR KRISZTINA ROBERT, UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON, talks about the challenges of producing clothing, uniforms and boots during the First World War.
IMAGE | New recruits to the British Army are measured for their uniforms during the First World War. After enlistment, an army sergeant measures a new recruit, still in civilian dress, for uniform and kit. Some of the recruits are already wearing army caps. Probably taken in 1917. By Horace Nicholls - http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//348/media-348293/large.jpgThis is photograph Q 30060 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39632727
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, DR GERARD CHARMLEY talks about the munitions industry during the First World War.
IMAGE | A worker poses with two 9.2" shells. By British official photographer - media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//56…-56623/large.jpg. This is photograph Q 33541 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums., Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39612039
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, LT GENERAL SIR HENRY RAWLINSON writes to Lord Derby in December 1916 about lessons learnt from the Somme Offensive. Henry Rawlinson was born in London in 1864. His father, Sir Henry Rawlinson, was a Member of Parliament and a renowned Oriental scholar. Rawlnson followed his father into the army. In 1916, he was appointed to command the Fourth Army, reporting to General Haig, who held supreme British command at the Somme.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, LANCE SERGEANT STUART LAING, 1ST BATTALION WELSH GUARDS, tells the story of the 1915 bugle, which he plays during the Vigil at Westminster Abbey.
IMAGE | Chrome Media Productions Ltd
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Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, WAR ARTIST, MAJOR WILLIAM ORPEN, describes returning to the Somme in the summer of 1917, a year after the launch of the Somme Offensive. Orpen was appointed an Official War Artist for the British Army in 1916. He made several visits to the Somme, including the one in the summer of 1917.
SOURCE | An Onlooker in France, William Orpen
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, COMPANY SERGEANT MAJOR GEORGE GREGORY of the Hertfordshire Regiment recalls the challenges of being on the march. George Gregory was born in London in 1890. He joined his local Territorial Battalion in 1914, serving with them overseas from November that year.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Brooke Knight, Emerson Park Academy | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, ABLE SEAMAN JOE MURRAY of the Royal Naval Division describes the chaos on the battlefield resulting from the bad weather and heavy cloud cover. Joe Murray was born in 1896. He served with the Hood Battalion, 63rd Royal Naval Division in the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915. Following the British withdrawal from the Dardanelles, his battalion found itself on the Somme.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Simon Bendry | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, PRIVATE JOHN JACKSON of the Cameron Highlanders recalls how by the autumn of 1916 heavy rain had turned the battlefield into a sea of mud. John Jackson came from Glasgow and was working for the Caledonian Railway when war was declared. He enlisted with the 6th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders, with whom he would serve for over four years. Jackson saw action at Loos before arriving on the Somme in the autumn of 1916.
SOURCE | Private 12768, Memoir of a Tommy, Professor Sir Hew Strachan.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Shannon Worrall, Richmond Park Academy | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, PRIVATE LIONEL McADAM recalls being aboard Creme de Menthe in the first tank action. Lionel McAdam was a gunner in one of the first tank crews. Having been barred from joining the Canadian infantry because he was too short, he paid his own passage across the Atlantic to join the British Army. He was in the Heavy Machine Gun Corps.
SOURCE | The First Tank Crews, Stephen Pope
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Peter Walton | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, RESERVE LEUTNANT HERMANN KOHL describes the new 'landships' in action. Hermann Kohl was 17 when war broke out. He joined the Bavarian Infantry near the Franco-German border, fighting at Ypres in 1915. He was wounded at the Somme, but survived the War, earning the Iron Cross (1st & 2nd Class) for gallantry in action. After the War, he returned to the Rhineland where in 1932 he wrote an account of his war experiences.
SOURCE | The German Army on the Somme, Jack Sheldon.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Simon Bendry | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, CORPORAL OSMAN FLOWERS talks about being a driver during the War. Osman Flowers joined up at Doncaster in October 1915. According to his enlistment documents, he was 5’ 6” tall. After two months’ training, he was sent to France as a driver in the Mechanical Transport Section of the Army Service Corps, arriving at Rouen just before Christmas 1915.
SOURCE | The Somme, Lyn McDonald
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Patrick McKeating, Pimlico Academy | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, we hear from Patrick, the son of 2ND LIEUTENANT EVAN JACK LLOYD. Evan Jack Lloyd was born in Wales on 14 August, 1891. He enlisted in September 1914 and served with the South Staffordshire Regiment before being selected for a commission in the field. He joined the 13th Cheshires in November 1915 as a 2nd Lieutenant and went out with them to the Somme in June 1916. He survived over six weeks of bitter fighting, taking his Company into action on several occasions, and was commended for a decoration.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Peter Walton | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, KANNONIER HANNS SCHAEFER, writes home to his parents after seeing action on the Somme. Hanns Schaefer was born in 1898. During the War, he served in a Field Artillery Reserve Regiment in the German army.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Simon Bendry | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, LT GENERAL SIR HEW PIKE talks about his grandfather, MAJOR REGGIE TOMPSON (PODCAST 16), who was in the Royal Field Artillery during the Somme offensive.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, SISTER EDIE APPLETON describes hospital life in the days before and after the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Edie Appleton was born in 1877 in Deal in Kent. She trained at St Bartholomew’s Hospital and joined Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service.
SOURCE | Robinson Family Personal Collection.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Lorna Misty, St Albans' Girls School | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, DICK ROBINSON talks about his great-aunt, SISTER EDIE APPLETON (PODCAST 15), who was nursing with the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service on the Western Front in the days before and after the men went over the top on 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
FURTHER INFORMATION | http://anurseatthefront.org.uk/
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Readers - see podcast series credits | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, PHILIP SIMM talks about his grandfather, GEORGE ASHURST, who fought on the Somme, and his adventures recuperating behind the lines and fraternising with the Germans over the Christmas of 1914.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, MAJOR REGGIE TOMPSON, Royal Field Artillery, writes home to his mother from the front. Reggie Tompson was born in 1886. He joined the Royal Field Artillery in 1900 and was a major by the time of the Somme Offensive.
SOURCE | IWM Audio Archive.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Charles Pitt | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, JAMES BIRKIN talks about his great-grandfather, war artist WILLIAM ORPEN (PODCAST 26).
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, novelist SEBASTIAN FAULKS, author of BIRDSONG, reflects on the First World War Centenary.
IMAGE | From Weeping Window, Imperial War Museum, London - ChromeRadio.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918.
In August 2018, students from across the United Kingdom joined students from France, the United States, Canada and Australia on the Western Front to commemorate the Battle of Amiens. This podcast series, recorded mostly during that battlefield tour, tell the story of the Battle of Amiens in the wider context of the First World War and the road to armistice.
In this podcast, we mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS with a series of reflections from representatives of the Allied nations, recorded during the battlefield tour at the Château de Flixecourt and Amiens Cathedral.
CONTRIBUTORS | THE RT HON JEREMY WRIGHT, MP, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport | DR ANDREW MURRISON, MP, Prime Minister's Special Representative for the Commemoration of the First World War Centenary | MONIQUE SEEFRIED, Commissioner, US WW1 Centennial Commission | THE HON SEAMUS O'REGAN MP, Minister of Veterans Affairs & Associate Minister of National Defence, Government of Canada | COLONEL SCOTT CLINGAN, Australian Defence Force Attaché for WW1 Western Front Commemorations | COLONEL ANTHONY EGAN, Defence Attaché, Australian Embassy, Paris | Members of the group representing FRANCE on the battlefield tour | BOB LEWIS, Director, British Council, France | MONSEIGNEUR OLIVIER LEBORGNE, Bishop of Amiens | REVEREND DR DAVID COULTER, Chaplain General to HM Land Forces | NICK PERRY, Permanent Secretary, Department of Justice, Northern Ireland.
READINGS | Cadet PO1 Jenna McKay, ROYAL CANADIAN SEA CADET - Cadet Sergeant Heidi Kelly, ROYAL CANADIAN AIR CADET - Sergeant Quentin Davis, INFANTRY BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM, US ARMY - AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE CADET - Sydnee Thorne, DUKE OF YORK ROYAL MILITARY SCHOOL, DOVER.
MUSIC | Land of Promise (Terry Devine-King) licensed courtesy of audionetwork | Music from the service in Notre Dame Cathedral, Amiens, on 8 August 2018 marking the Centenary of the Battle of Amiens - performers include an international military band led by the CENTRAL BAND OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE, and the National Youth Choir of Great Britain.
IMAGE | Notre Dame Cathedral, Amiens - ChromeRadio
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, JENNY WALDMAN, Director of 14-18 NOW, reflects on the First World War Centenary.
IMAGE | Weeping Window, Imperial War Museum, London - ChromeRadio.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918.
In August 2018, students from across the United Kingdom joined students from France, the United States, Canada and Australia on the Western Front to commemorate the Battle of Amiens. This podcast series, recorded mostly during that battlefield tour, tell the story of the Battle of Amiens in the wider context of the First World War and the road to armistice.
In this podcast, we join PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN at the THIEPVAL MEMORIAL to the missing, which dominates the Somme landscape for miles around. Engraved on the Memorial itself are the names of more than 72,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers who have no known grave.
IMAGE | ChromeRadio
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918.
In August 2018, students from across the United Kingdom joined students from France, the United States, Canada and Australia on the Western Front to commemorate the Battle of Amiens. This podcast series, recorded mostly during that battlefield tour, tell the story of the Battle of Amiens in the wider context of the First World War and the road to armistice.
In this podcast, we join the students and PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN on their visit to the German cemetery at FRICOURT.
IMAGE | ChromeRadio
MUSIC | Ich hatt' einen Kameraden by Friedrich Silcher/Ludwig Uhland - TruthForLies, Community Audio, The Internet Archive https://archive.org/about/.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918.
In August 2018, students from across the United Kingdom joined students from France, the United States, Canada and Australia on the Western Front to commemorate the Battle of Amiens. This podcast series, recorded mostly during that battlefield tour, tell the story of the Battle of Amiens in the wider context of the First World War and the road to armistice.
In this podcast, we join the students on their visit to a battlefield cemetery in CATERPILLAR VALLEY. Situated in the southern sector of the Somme battlefield, this was a part of the Front where there were Allied successes during the Somme offensive.
CONTRIBUTORS | Simon Bendry, Director, First World War Centenary Battlefield Tour Programme, UCL Institute of Education - Sir Hew Strachan, Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews.
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PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, PRIVATE JACK COUSINS recalls his experiences on the Somme. Jack Cousins was a farmer’s boy from Trowley Bottom near St Albans. He enlisted with the 7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment in September 1914 along with 10 of his friends.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Norman Goodman | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, LIEUTENANT CECIL LEWIS recalls flying over the Somme on the morning of 1 July 1916. Cecil Lewis was born in 1898. He joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1915.
SOURCE | SAGITTARIUS RISING, Cecil Lewis (1936)
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Simon Bendry | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, POLLY HAAS talks about her grandfather, LIEUTENANT CECIL LEWIS (PODCAST 10) and the Battle of the Somme.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, PRIVATE WILL MARSHALL remembers 'going over the top' on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. William Marshall was born in Burnley in 1893. He was working as a cotton weaver when he enlisted in the Accrington Pals on 17 September 1914. On 1 July 1916, his Battalion went ‘over the top’ opposite the village of Serre in the northern sector of the Somme.
SOURCE | http://www.pals.org.uk/marshall.htm
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Norman Goodman | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, LANCE CORPORAL SIDNEY RICHARDS recalls the action at Gommecourt on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Sidney Richards was born in West Bromwich in 1895. Before the War, he had worked as a glass silverer and a clerk. He joined the 137th Brigade, Machine Gun Company and took part in the artillery bombardment before the men went ‘over the top’ on 1 July 1916. His account of the action at Gommecourt that morning was published in the Trinity Church Parish Magazine.
SOURCE | Andrew Thornton
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Simon Bendry | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, LIEUTENANT CHARLES SAUNDERS writes a last letter home before his battalion went 'over the top' on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Charles Saunders was born in Lowestoft in 1888. When war broke out, he was working for the Beccles branch of Barclays Bank. He enlisted in the Scots Greys before being commissioned into the 15th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment.
SOURCE | Clive Harris
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Peter Walton | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, DR PIERRE PURSEIGLE, Associate Professor of Modern History, UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, talks about how the Home Front coped with the influx of refugees during the First World War.
IMAGE | Belgian refugees in 1914 - By Unknown I f.ex. Jan Dąbrowski "Wielka wojna" (The Great War) Warsaw 1937, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3301725.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, PANIKOS PANAYI, Professor of European History, DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY, LEICESTER, talks about those who were interned and prisoners-of-war.
IMAGE | George Kenner, German civilian World War I POW, (on left) with his younger brother Benno (right) and a fellow internee at the Knockaloe internment camp on the Isle of Man PoW Camp, Feb 3, 1918 - By unknown British photographer - https://www.flickr.com/photos/20783398@N05/sets/72157641487404785/, CC BY-SA 3.0, - https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35031684
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, IAN BECKETT, Emeritus Professor of Military History, UNIVERSITY OF KENT, talks about enlistment and conscription during the First World War.
IMAGE | British conscription poster : "Military Service Act 1916 - By British Government - United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division, digital ID cph.3g11039. - Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19413892.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, CHRIS WRIGLEY, Emeritus Professor of History, UNIVERSITY of NOTTINGHAM, talks about trade unions and the rise of the Labour party during the First World War.
IMAGE | Poster : "Vote Labour. Peace Conference. No Admission Except on Coalition. You could not make War without us you cannot make Peace without us!" - By Will Dyson 1918 - Printed by David Allen and Sons Ltd, and published by the Labour Party - This is photograph Art IWM PST 12194 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums. | Public Domain - https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19342979
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, SAPPER GEORGE COWARD recalls the night before the infantry attack on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. George Coward was a professional soldier in the Royal Engineers at the outbreak of war. He was one of the first servicemen to leave for France in 1914 with the British Expeditionary Force and saw action on the Somme in July 1916.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Charles Pitt | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, DR PETER GRANT, CASS BUSINESS SCHOOL, CITY UNIVERSITY, LONDON, talks about charitable work during the First World War.
IMAGE | Poster for a fundraising event in support of Welsh troops - By Frank Brangwyn 1867-1956 - Library of Congress[1], PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25328628.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, the REVEREND JULIAN BICKERSTETH talks about taking a service at the front, a week before the Battle of the Somme. Julian Bickersteth was born in Yorkshire in 1885. He was the third son of the Reverend Dr Samuel Bickersteth, then Vicar of Leeds, later Canon of Canterbury Cathedral and Chaplain to the King. Educated at Rugby and Christ Church, Oxford, Bickersteth was ordained in 1910 before going out to Australia in 1912 as chaplain to Melbourne Church of England Grammar School. He returned to England in late 1915 where he joined the 56th (London) Division as senior chaplain. He served with them on the Somme. This is from his diary entry for Sunday 25th June 1916.
SOURCES | http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bickersteth-kenneth-julian-faithfull-5230 http://www.genuki.org.uk/files/org/awards/bickersteth/recipients.pdf
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Simon Bendry | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918.
In August 2018, students from across the United Kingdom joined students from France, the United States, Canada and Australia on the Western Front to commemorate the Battle of Amiens. This podcast series, recorded mostly during that battlefield tour, tell the story of the Battle of Amiens in the wider context of the First World War and the road to armistice.
In this podcast, we join the students on their visit to the NEWFOUNDLAND MEMORIAL PARK at BEAUMONT HAMEL, where they explore the preserved battlefield and trenches, following in the footsteps of the Newfoundland Regiment on the morning of 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
CONTRIBUTORS | Simon Bendry, Director, First World War Centenary Battlefield Tour Programme, UCL Institute of Education - Sir Hew Strachan, Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews - Readings by members of the battlefield tour group.
IMAGE | The Battle of the Somme, July - November 1916 Royal Engineers No.1 Printing Company. Troops waiting, some still asleep, in a support trench shortly before zero hour, Beaumont Hamel. - http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//37/media-37570/large.jpg - Collections of the Imperial War Museums, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30857538.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918.
In August 2018, students from across the United Kingdom joined students from France, the United States, Canada and Australia on the Western Front to commemorate the Battle of Amiens. This podcast series, recorded mostly during that battlefield tour, tell the story of the Battle of Amiens in the wider context of the First World War and the road to armistice.
In this podcast, we join the students on their visit to SUNKEN LANE and the HAWTHORN CRATER. It was in Sunken Lane that cameraman Geoffrey Malins filmed the Lancashire Fusiliers waiting to attach Beaumont Hamel on the morning of 1 July 1916, the first day of the Battle of the Somme, shortly before the explosion of the Hawthorn Ridge mine.
CONTRIBUTORS | Simon Bendry, Director, First World War Centenary Battlefield Tour Programme, UCL Institute of Education - Sir Hew Strachan, Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews.
IMAGE | Explosion of the Hawthorn Ridge mine at 7.20 am on 1 July 1916 - By Ernest Brooks - This is photograph Q 754 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums (collection no 1900-09), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=537224.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, 2ND LIEUTENANT STEWART MONTAGU CLEEVE recalls preparing for the artillery bombardment in June 1916 before the Battle of the Somme. Stewart Montagu Cleeve was born to a military family in Hampshire in 1894. He attended the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich before being commissioned into 36th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery.
SOURCES | Source: Forgotten Voices of the Somme, Joshua Levine, page 90 For biog, see obituary: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lt-col-montagu-cleeve-1478794.html
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Tijana Uludag-Whyte, Heartlands High School | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, CAPTAIN ROLAND PHILIPPS makes plans for life after the War. Roland Philipps was born in London in 1890 to an aristocratic family. He was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford before being commissioned into the Royal Fusiliers. He was a friend of Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout Movement, and by 1913 was Scouting Commissioner for East London. Philipps and Baden-Powell corresponded regularly about the future of the Scout Movement after the War.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Peter Walton | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, SERGEANT ALEXANDER PATERSON recalls being sent out to gather intelligence. Alexander Paterson enlisted in the Rifle Brigade on 8 September 1914, arriving in France in 1915. He was wounded in the later stages of the Somme Offensive and honourably discharged from the army in early 1917. He was awarded both the Distinguished Conduct Medal and the Military Medal for gallantry in action.
Source | IWM, Lives of the First World War - https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Sophia El-Salahi, The Charter School | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, we hear from PRIVATE DONALD MURRAY about preparations for the Battle of the Somme. Donald Murray was born in Bradford in 1893 into a working class family of six children. When Britain declared war in August 1914, he decided to join up. He and his fellow apprentices went straight to the recruiting office and enlisted as a group in the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. He arrived in France in May 1915, and his battalion went ‘over the top’ on the first day of the Somme.
SOURCE | IWM Audio Archive, Interview with Donald Murray, 1973.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Joel Williams-Modeste, St John's Gravesend | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, DR PETER CLAUGHTON, Honorary Research Fellow, UNIVERSITY of EXETER, talks about the demands made on the iron and steel industry during the First World War.
IMAGE | The Great War: Britain's Efforts and Ideals - The Furnace, George Clausen - Set of prints commissioned by the British government (Wellington House) in 1917 for use as propaganda.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, ROBERT NEWMAN, doctoral student, UNIVERSITY OF KENT, talks about forestry and the demand for timber during the First World War.
IMAGE | Agriculture in Britain during the First World War - Members of the Women's Land Army Forestry Corps drive a horse-drawn sleigh to transport wood during the First World War - Nicholls Horace - Wikimedia Commons media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//57…-57393/large.jpg This is photograph Q 30718 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, DR ROBB ROBINSON, Honorary Research Fellow, Maritime Historical Studies Centre, UNIVERSITY OF HULL, talks about the fishing industry during the First World War.
IMAGE | Minesweeping crew of the Buckie drifter Obtain (Jon Grobler), kindly provided by Dr Robb Robinson.
You can find an illustrated version of this podcast on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsi9QRORcKA
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, PROFESSOR KEITH GRIEVES, KINGSTON UNIVERSITY, talks about agriculture during the First World War.
IMAGE | Agriculture in Britain during the First World War A member of the Women's Land Army farming potatoes using horse-drawn machinery during the First World War - Nicholls Horace - Wikimedia Commons - http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//57/media-57379/large.jpg This is photograph Q 30655 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, ROY MacLEOD, Emeritus Professor of History, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, talks about the role of science during the First World War.
IMAGE | Diagram of soldier in a British box respirator - Wikimedia Commons - MacPherson, WG; Herringham, WP; Elliott, TR; Balfour, A - (1923). Medical Services: Diseases of the War: Including the Medical Aspects of Aviation and Gas Warfare and Gas Poisoning in Tanks and Mines. History of the Great War Based on Official Documents by Direction of the Historical Section of the Committee of Imperial Defence II. London: HMSO. OCLC 769752656. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, DR STUART HALLIFAX explores the role of local government in Essex, whose coastline made it vulnerable to German invasion.
IMAGE | Men of Essex First World War Recruitment Poster - Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Men_of_Essex_recruitment_poster_WWI.jpg
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918.
In August 2018, students from across the United Kingdom joined students from France, the United States, Canada and Australia on the Western Front to commemorate the Battle of Amiens. The following podcasts, recorded during that battlefield tour, tell the story of the Battle of Amiens in the wider context of the First World War and the road to armistice.
In this podcast, we join PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN on the first day of the battlefield tour for his morning briefing to the students before they visited the Somme battlefields to explore how lessons learned during the Battle of the Somme would influence the Battle of Amiens in 1918.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, the narrator, played by NICHOLAS ROWE, sets the scene.
IMAGE | Troops 'going over the top' at the start of the Battle of the Somme, Ivor Castle - Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Going_over_the_top_01.jpg#/media/File:Going_over_the_top_01.jpg
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, a father writes to his son as he leaves for the Front. PRIVATE TED AMBROSE was the first son of a working class family in the small village of Wallington in Hertfordshire. He enlisted in the Bedfordshire Regiment in 1915, and was just 18 when he left for the front the following February. His father wrote to him before he sailed for France,
SOURCE | Herts at War Collection.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Peter Walton | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home.
The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme.
In this podcast, we hear from a munitionette. MRS ADELA HALL had come to London to help with the war effort. By early 1916, she had started work at Perivale National Filling Factory in the London Borough of Lewisham. She later recalled what it was like to work there.
SOURCE | Imperial War Museum.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Sophia El-Salahi, The Charter School | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, DR EDWARD MADIGAN, Lecturer in Public History, ROYAL HOLLOWAY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, reflects on how the First World War was seen by many at the time as a profoundly moral war, and considers the role the churches played in creating that perception.
IMAGE | The Great Sacrifice, James Clark - Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Clark_-_The_Great_Sacrifice.jpg
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, GERRY RUBIN, Emeritus Professor of Law, UNIVERSITY OF KENT, considers the Defence of the Realm regulations, and other emergency legislation enacted during the First World War.
IMAGE | British First World War poster regarding the killing of war pigeons being an offence under Regulation 21A of the Defence of the Realm Act - Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shooting_Homing_Pigeons.png
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, HEATHER JONES, Professor in Modern and Contemporary European History, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, considers the monarchy and the creation of the British Home Front.
IMAGE | Queen Mary with her daughter Mary, the Princess Royal, during the First World War - Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Queen_Mary_and_Princess_Mary.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LloydGeorge.jpg
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, GEORGE PEDEN, Emeritus Professor of History, UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING, considers the growth of Cabinet Government during the First World War.
IMAGE | David Lloyd George - Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LloydGeorge.jpg
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, photo-journalist MICHAEL ST MAUR SHEIL talks about his photographic exhibition, FIELDS OF BATTLE, LANDS OF PEACE, and picks out some of the images that have a particular resonance for him.
IMAGES (IN ORDER OF REFERENCE) Ploegsteert Wood at dawn http://www.westernfrontphotography.com/main.php?g2_itemId=6027 The London Irish football, Loos https://www.maryevans.com/search.php Shell lying in mud http://www.westernfrontphotography.com/main.php?g2_itemId=6050 Somme - 'Iron' harvest http://www.westernfrontphotography.com/main.php?g2_itemId=2295 Ancre Marshes, Somme http://www.maryevans.com/search.php Battlefield grave memorial, Western Front http://www.maryevans.com/search.php Rabenbuhl Friedhof http://www.westernfrontphotography.com/main.php?g2_itemId=4296 Brooding soldier, Canadian Memorial, Vancouver Corner https://www.maryevans.com/search.php Tyne Cot Cemetery http://www.westernfrontphotography.com/main.php?g2_itemId=6059
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, CATRIONA PENNELL, Associate Professor of History, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER, considers the United Kingdom in 1914.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort.
In this podcast, Sir HEW STRACHAN, Professor of International Relations, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS, explains why he organised a conference on the British Home Front.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918.
FROM AMIENS TO ARMISTICE - A GENERAL REFLECTS is a docudrama based on the diaries of GENERAL LORD RAWLINSON, commander of the British Fourth Army at the Battle of Amiens, performed by NICHOLAS ROWE. With thanks to the CHURCHILL ARCHIVES CENTRE, Churchill College, University of Cambridge.
MUSIC | Land of Promise (Terry Devine-King) - Tipperary & In Remembrance (Patrick Hawes) licensed courtesy of audionetwork,
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp | Script Consultant - Professor Sir Hew Strachan.
DR CHRISTINA GOULTER, Senior Lecturer and Head of the AIR POWER STUDIES RESEARCH GROUP, KING'S COLLEGE LONDON and Co-Director of the SIR MICHAEL HOWARD CENTRE FOR THE HISTORY OF WAR, on why the use of air power in the 2011 Libyan Campaign can be considered a success, and the reasons for its not being adopted as a template for intervention in Syria.
RECORDED at the conference on THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AIR POWER, held on 8-9 May 2018 at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS.
IMAGE | Ministry of Defence | Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR AND STRATEGY, SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
AIR COMMODORE DR FRANS OSINGA, Chair in WAR STUDIES and Head of the Military Operational Art and Science Section, FACULTY OF MILITARY SCIENCES, NETHERLANDS DEFENCE ACADEMY, on the crucial importance of European air power capability in an era where Russian behaviour has, once again, made the risk of inter-state warfare acute.
RECORDED at the conference on THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AIR POWER, held on 8-9 May 2018 at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR AND STRATEGY, SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Retired French Air Force LT GENERAL BRUNO CLERMONT, Senior Adviser to the Chairman of DASSAULT AVIATION, on French air power capability and European collaboration.
RECORDED at the conference on THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AIR POWER, held on 8-9 May 2018 at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR AND STRATEGY, SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
PROFESSOR MICHAEL CLARKE, defence analyst and former Director of the ROYAL UNITED SERVICES INSTITUTE (RUSI), on the political limitations of air power, the impact of Brexit, and how quantum computing will radically change the character of war.
RECORDED at the conference on THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AIR POWER, held on 8-9 May 2018 at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR AND STRATEGY, SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918.
In THE BATTLE OF AMIENS AND ITS OUTCOME, SIR HEW STRACHAN, Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews, explores the lead-up to the Battle of Amiens, how commanders Haig, Rawlinson, and Foch were able to work together to deliver success, and how the Battle of Amiens triggered a series of interlocking victories for the Allies that brought to an end Germany's war in the West.
MUSIC | Summon the Cavalry (Paul Clarvis, Mike Lovatt) licensed courtesy of audionetwork | Last Post - LSgt Stuart Laing on a WW1 (1915) bugle.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918.
In THE BATTLE OF AMIENS AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR, SIR HEW STRACHAN, Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews, considers the Battle of Amiens in August 1918 in the context of the First World War as a whole, and how three commanders - Haig, Rawlinson, and Foch - all of whom had experienced failure as well as success in the earlier years of the War, were to come together at the Battle of Amiens to great effect.
MUSIC | Rouse (Steve Sidwell) licensed courtesy of audionetwork | Last Post - LSgt Stuart Laing on a WW1 (1915) bugle.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Retired US Air Force Colonel GARY BROWN, first senior legal counsel at US Cyber Command, on legal challenges arising from the use of modern air power, including drones, why the development of an international protocol governing the use of offensive cyber activity is a priority, and whether giant robots are the future.
RECORDED at the conference on THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AIR POWER, held on 8-9 May 2018 at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR AND STRATEGY, SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Retired US Air Force Major-General CHARLES DUNLAP, Professor at DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, on 'lawfare', the ways in which the law is being used by both sides to a conflict to accomplish military missions, and the challenges in prospect as autonomous weapons acquire the ability to 'learn'.
RECORDED at the conference on THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AIR POWER, held on 8-9 May 2018 at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR AND STRATEGY, SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
ULRIKE FRANKE, Policy Fellow at the EUROPEAN COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS (ECFR), on the increasing use of drones in military operations, and the importance of science fiction.
RECORDED at the conference on THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AIR POWER, held on 8-9 May 2018 at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR AND STRATEGY, SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
PHILIP SABIN, Professor of Strategic Studies in the WAR STUDIES DEPARTMENT, KING'S COLLEGE LONDON, on the importance of war gaming in modelling conflict - past, present, and future - and why its use is on the rise today.
RECORDED at the conference on THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AIR POWER, held on 8-9 May 2018 at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR AND STRATEGY, SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Retired US Air Force LT GENERAL DAVID DEPTULA, principal air campaign planner for Operation Desert Storm (Gulf War, 1991) and now Dean of the MITCHELL INSTITUTE OF AEROSPACE STUDIES, on the evolution of the air power revolution, the impact of stealth and precision-targeting technology, and whether space will become the new theatre of conflict.
RECORDED at the conference on THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AIR POWER, held on 8-9 May 2018 at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR AND STRATEGY, SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
SIR LAWRENCE FREEDMAN, Emeritus Professor of War Studies, KING'S COLLEGE LONDON, on the use of air power from the First Gulf War to the present day, the importance of integrating air power into the broader political and strategic objective, and why our attempts at predicting the future are necessarily flawed.
RECORDED at the conference on THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AIR POWER, held on 8-9 May 2018 at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR AND STRATEGY, SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
PROFESSOR PHILLIPS O'BRIEN, Chair of Strategic Studies in the SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS, explains why we need to talk more about air power, the determinative force in warfare today.
RECORDED at the conference on THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AIR POWER, held on 8-9 May 2018 at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR AND STRATEGY, SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
MARTHA LUZ AMOROCHO DE UJUETA lost one son in the Club Nogal bombing, which left another son badly injured. She took part in the peace talks as a member of one of the Victims' Delegations. She talks to us from Bogotá about working for peace and reconciliation, and learning to forgive.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the CENTRE FOR PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
At the 1901 ARTS CLUB in London, actress and singer SARAH GABRIEL and director RICHARD WILLIAMS, accompanied by IAIN FARRINGTON on piano, chat about their show, DOROTHY PARKER TAKES A TRIP (OXFORD PLAYHOUSE - 27 MAY 2018).
Originally commissioned by the DARTINGTON FESTIVAL, the show explores the life of poet and writer DOROTHY PARKER. Famous for her caustic wit, DOROTHY PARKER is less well known for her support for the American civil rights movement. This was to be the source of a post-mortem feud with fellow writer, Lilian Hellman, who refused to collect DOROTHY PARKER'S ashes from the crematorium for years. With a nod to NOEL COWARD, SARAH and RICHARD reminisce about creating the show, the wildness and cultural ferment of New York in the roaring '20s, and the perils of using stunt ashes....
DOROTHY PARKER TAKES A TRIP is at the OXFORD PLAYHOUSE on 27 May 2018 (www. oxfordplayhouse.com)and is part of the ASHMOLEAN'S AMERICAN COOL FESTIVAL, celebrating American art and culture from the 1920s to 1940s, coinciding with the major exhibition America’s Cool Modernism: O'Keefe to Hopper.
SARAH GABRIEL | Soprano IAIN FARRINGTON | Piano RICHARD WILLIAMS | Director
WITH GRATEFUL THANKS TO the 1901 ARTS CLUB for allowing us to use their performance space for recording this podcast, and to the NOEL COWARD ESTATE for kindly granting us permission to use excerpts from I WENT TO A MARVELLOUS PARTY by NOEL COWARD, licensed courtesy of WARNER/CHAPPELL UK.
IMAGE CREDITS Sarah Gabriel and Richard Williams - Kate Mount | Iain Farrington - Iain Farrington | Algonquin Round Table - http://www.geocities.com/~jbenz/marxphot.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3660561
A CHROMERADIO PRODUCTION | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Sound recordist - Chris Sharp | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Dutch national TANJA NIJMEIJER fought with the FARC, and was a member of the FARC negotiating team during the peace talks with the Santos government. She reflects on why she joined the FARC, the peace process, and the challenges that lie ahead.
NOTE | This audio had to be recorded over a web connection as it was the only way of speaking direct to TANJA, who is in Bogotá.
IMAGE | By Boris Arenas - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48855168
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the CENTRE FOR PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
SERGIO JARAMILLO CARO, COLOMBIA'S AMBASSADOR TO BELGIUM and HEAD OF ITS MISSION TO THE EU, was HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR PEACE and a key member of the Colombian government's negotiating team during the successful peace talks with the FARC-EP. In conversation with DR RODDY BRETT, Director of the CENTRE FOR PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS, he reflects on the negotiations and their challenges.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the CENTRE FOR PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
IMAGE | By U.S. Department of State - https://www.flickr.com/photos/statephotos/9492700519/sizes/o/in/photostream/, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27680782
In this first podcast, DR RODDY BRETT, Director of the CENTRE FOR PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS, explores the history of COLOMBIA's internal armed conflict, and how the armed struggle with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the FARC-EP, was finally brought to an end in 2016 by the landmark peace agreement between the government of President Juan Manuel Santos and the former guerilla group.
On 27 May 2018, COLOMBIA goes to the polls to elect a new president. PRESIDENT JUAN MANUEL SANTOS is coming to the end of his second term and so out of the running. The big question is whether Santos' successor will support the ongoing peace process, which faces a number of challenges. Political opposition threatens the implementation of the complex series of peace accords, and the continuing conflict with the National Liberation Army (ELN) could undermine the fragile peace achieved to date.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the CENTRE FOR PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
ROGER McCALLUM served in both the ROYAL ULSTER CONSTABULARY (RUC), and its successor, the POLICE SERVICE OF NORTHERN IRELAND. He is now involved in various peace and reconciliation initiatives, and is a Trustee of the RUC GEORGE CROSS FOUNDATION.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the HANDA CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF TERRORISM AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | With thanks to QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST for its assistance in setting up the WITNESS interviews | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Former IRA prisoner MICHAEL CULBERT now runs COISTE, an organisation that looks after former IRA prisoners and their families. At the COISTE office in West Belfast, he and former British soldier LEE LAVIS reflect on their personal journeys from being on opposite sides during the conflict to working together now for peace.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the HANDA CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF TERRORISM AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | With thanks to QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST for its assistance in setting up the WITNESS interviews | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
A former member of the ULSTER DEFENCE ASSOCIATION (UDA), COLIN HALLIDAY spent time in the Maze Prison during the conflict. He now runs Lisburn’s People’s Support Project, originally set up as Lisburn Prisoners’ Support Project to help former prisoners from the UDA and its military wing, the Ulster Freedom Fighters, to reintegrate into society.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the HANDA CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF TERRORISM AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | With thanks to QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST for its assistance in setting up the WITNESS interviews | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
SHIRLEY MOODY’s husband was shot when he was 16, and he still lives with the legacy of those injuries today. Shirley coped with the aftermath, and the challenges of bringing up a family of sons and keeping them away from the paramilitary organisations during the Troubles.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the HANDA CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF TERRORISM AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | With thanks to QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST and WAVE for their assistance in setting up these interviews | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
PETER HEATHWOOD’s family came over to Ireland during the Plantation of Ulster in the early 1600s. Aged 26, Peter was shot and left paralysed in a case of mistaken identity. He now campaigns with WAVE for appropriate financial recognition of the needs of all those injured during the conflict.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the HANDA CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF TERRORISM AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | With thanks to QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST and WAVE for their assistance in setting up these interviews | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
April 2018 marks the 20th anniversary of the signing of the 'Good Friday' Agreement, the historic peace deal that ended nearly 30 years of conflict, a period known as the 'Troubles', in Northern Ireland.
In SHAPING THE CONFLICT, DR KIERAN McCONAGHY, Lecturer at the HANDA CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF TERRORISM AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS, talks about growing up in County Armagh, making sense of different political narratives, and how the state's response to political violence shaped the Northern Irish conflict.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the HANDA CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF TERRORISM AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
In our second podcast, TOWARDS PEACE, DR TIM WILSON continues the history of the Northern Irish conflict, taking us from the end of the First World War, when the British government turned once again to the Irish question, through a turbulent 20th century that ended with the historic 'Good Friday' Agreement and began the peace process we know today.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the HANDA CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF TERRORISM AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to this month's podcast series on NORTHERN IRELAND, a collaboration between ChromeRadio and the HANDA CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF TERRORISM AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS.
April 2018 marks the 20th anniversary of the signing of the 'Good Friday' Agreement, the historic peace deal that ended nearly 30 years of conflict, a period known as the 'Troubles', in Northern Ireland.
In our first podcast, ROOTS, DR TIM WILSON, Director of the HANDA CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF TERRORISM AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS, takes us from the plantation of Ulster in the 17th century to the suspension of Home Rule during the First World War.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the HANDA CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF TERRORISM AND POLITICAL VIOLENCE, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
DR JASMINE GANI in conversation with physicist DR ALEXY KARENOWSKA, Fellow of MAGDALEN COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD and Director of Technology at the INSTITUTE FOR DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGY, on how 3D printing and machining technologies can help restore and replicate monuments damaged or destroyed during the conflict, such as Palmyra's triumphal arch, which was razed to the ground by ISIS in 2015.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR AND STRATEGY, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
In 2017, WORLD MONUMENTS FUND - with the support of the BRITISH COUNCIL, co-ordinating the CULTURAL PROTECTION FUND, and local partner, THE PETRA NATIONAL TRUST - launched its stonemasonry training programme at Mafraq in Jordan, 12 miles from the Syrian border.
We hear how Master Mason TONY STEEL, Assistant Trainer NOUR AL SHDAIFAT, and local manager BARA'A AL FALAH are training Syrians and Jordanians to become the craftspeople and conservators of the future.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: wmf.org.uk/Projects/stone-masonry-training-in-mafraq-jordan
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with WORLD MONUMENTS FUND | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
DR DARIA VOROBYEVA, CENTRE FOR SYRIAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS, on the impact of the conflict on Syria's refugees, focusing on Armenian Syrians.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR AND STRATEGY, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
DR HAIAN DUKHAN, Teaching Fellow in International Relations, UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER, on growing up in Palmyra and the role of Syria's tribes in the conflict.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR AND STRATEGY, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
DR JASMINE GANI, Associate Director of the CENTRE FOR SYRIAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS, in conversation with DR CHRIS PHILLIPS, Reader in International Relations, QUEEN MARY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON and an Associate Fellow, Middle East and North Africa Programme, CHATHAM HOUSE on how a civil conflict became an international proxy war, and the ongoing battle for Syria.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR AND STRATEGY, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to this month's podcast series, a collaboration between ChromeRadio and the INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR AND STRATEGY, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS.
The Syrian conflict has now entered its eighth year. What began as a series of peaceful protests in March 2011, has now become an international proxy war. Thousands of Syrians are fleeing Eastern Ghouta, currently under attack from regime forces supported by Russia, and Afrin, where NATO member Turkey is fighting the YPG, a Kurdish militia backed by fellow NATO member, the US.
DR JASMINE GANI, Lecturer in International Relations, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS, and Associate Director of the CENTRE FOR SYRIAN STUDIES explores Syria past and present, the role of the al-Assad family in shaping modern Syria, and how the actions of other states have often directed the country's domestic agenda.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF WAR AND STRATEGY, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
In the third podcast in our THESE ISLANDS series, PETER FIENNES, author of OAK AND ASH AND THORN, explores the ancient woods and new forests of Britain, and the threats they face today.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with THESE ISLANDS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
PANEL DISCUSSION | UNIVERSITE PARIS-SORBONNE | 25.11.17
PANEL: Professor Sir Hew Strachan(Chair) | Professor George-Henri Soutou | Professor Jennifer Keene
CONTEXT Peace negotiations were conducted alongside military conflict from the outset of WW1, but it was President Wilson’s attempt to arbitrate in December 1916 that initiated the serious push for peace. By then, the fighting on the Western Front had revealed the full horror of modern industrial warfare. However, Wilson discovered that to secure peace America would have to join the fight.
DISCUSSION SIR HEW STRACHAN (Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews), GEORGES-HENRI SOUTOU (Professor Emeritus, Paris-Sorbonne, Institut de France) and PROFESSOR JENNIFER KEENE (Chair, Department of History, Chapman University) on: (1) the Franco-American relationship prior to American entry into WW1; (2) America's entry into WW1 in April 1917, including the arrival of American troops in France, and their reception; and (3) the legacy of American engagement in France 1917-1918.
HOW THE PEACE MAKER TURNED BELLIGERENT On 7 May 1915, RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland. Among the dead were over 120 Americans. As news reports came in that evening, Colonel House, President Wilson’s right-hand man, was dining with US Ambassador Walter Page in London. “We shall be at war with Germany within a month”, declared House. In fact, some two years would elapse before America finally entered the War on April 6, 1917.
AUDIO CLIPS from ChromeRadio’s podcast drama, ENTER THE PEACE BROKER by Martyn Wade, will illustrate the panel discussion. Based on contemporary diaries, letters and newspaper reports, the drama brings alive America’s journey into WW1, a compelling story of duplicity and diplomatic intrigue. Made with the support of the ROTHERMERE FOUNDATION, the production includes a selection of WW1 songs arranged and performed by mezzo-soprano JESSICA WALKER with JAMES HOLMES on piano.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the UNIVERSITE PARIS-SORBONNE | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
PANEL DISCUSSION | NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL, KANSAS CITY | 2.11.17
PANEL: Lora Vogt (Moderator) | Professor Jay Sexton | Professor Jennifer Keene
CONTEXT Peace negotiations were conducted alongside military conflict from the outset of WW1, but it was President Wilson’s attempt to arbitrate in December 1916 that initiated the serious push for peace. By then, the fighting on the Western Front had revealed the full horror of modern industrial warfare. However, Wilson discovered that to secure peace America would have to join the fight.
DISCUSSION PROFESSORS JAY SEXTON (Kinder Institute Chair in Constitutional Democracy, University of Missouri) and JENNIFER KEENE (Chair, Department of History, Chapman University) on Wilson’s vision for peace and a new world order, US military preparedness in 1917, and domestic reactions to US entry into the War.
HOW THE PEACE MAKER TURNED BELLIGERENT On 7 May 1915, RMS Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland. Among the dead were over 120 Americans. As news reports came in that evening, Colonel House, President Wilson’s right-hand man, was dining with US Ambassador Walter Page in London. “We shall be at war with Germany within a month”, declared House. In fact, some two years would elapse before America finally entered the War on April 6, 1917.
AUDIO CLIPS from ChromeRadio’s podcast drama, ENTER THE PEACE BROKER by Martyn Wade, will illustrate the panel discussion. Based on contemporary diaries, letters and newspaper reports, the drama brings alive America’s journey into WW1, a compelling story of duplicity and diplomatic intrigue. Made with the support of the ROTHERMERE FOUNDATION, the production includes a selection of WW1 songs arranged and performed by mezzo-soprano JESSICA WALKER with JAMES HOLMES on piano.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
PANEL DISCUSSION | BRITISH LIBRARY, LONDON | 24.04.17
PANEL: Professor Sir Hew Strachan (Chair) | Professor Phillips O’Brien | Dr Alice Kelly
CONTEXT Throughout the First World War, peace negotiations were conducted alongside visceral military conflict. But in December 1916, with President Wilson’s attempt to arbitrate, the serious push for peace began.
DISCUSSION SIR HEW STRACHAN (Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews), PHILLIPS O'BRIEN (Professor of Strategic Studies, University of St Andrews), and DR ALICE KELLY (Rt Hon Vere Sidney Tudor Harmsworth Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the History of the United States and WW1) on the US vision for peace and a new world order, including:
(1) the US/British relationship, in particular, the contention that it was British propaganda that brought the US into the war in 1917, and the subsequent British missions to the US led by Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour and the press baron, Lord Northcliffe; (2) how President Wilson’s peace initiative shaped the remainder of the war and influenced the terms of the ultimate peace; and (3) the legacy of the US vision for peace and a new world order in WW1 across the long 20th century.
HOW THE PEACE BROKER TURNED BELLIGERENT On 1 May 1915, RMS Lusitania left New York bound for Liverpool. Aboard were 1,959 passengers and crew. Only 764 would survive the voyage. On 7 May 1915, as she rounded the south coast of Ireland, German U-boat 20 torpedoed and sank the pride of the Cunard Line in just 18 minutes. Among the dead were 123 Americans. That evening, as the news broke, Colonel Edward House, President Woodrow Wilson’s right-hand man, was dining with US Ambassador Walter Hines Page in London. ‘We shall be at war within a month’, House declared.
But Wilson, holding fast to his vision for peace, refused to be provoked and it was not until almost two years later, in April 1917, that the US finally entered the war. By then, Wilson’s attempt to arbitrate in December 1916 had failed and German provocation could no longer be ignored. Germany was waging unrestricted U-boat warfare and the Zimmerman telegram had exposed German attempts to foment war between Mexico and the US. If the US wanted to secure peace, it would have to enter the war. The peace broker had finally turned belligerent.
AUDIO CLIPS from ChromeRadio’s podcast drama, ENTER THE PEACE BROKER by Martyn Wade, will illustrate the panel discussion. Based on contemporary diaries, letters and newspaper reports, the drama brings alive America’s journey into WW1, a compelling story of duplicity and diplomatic intrigue. Made with the support of the ROTHERMERE FOUNDATION, the production includes a selection of WW1 songs arranged and performed by mezzo-soprano JESSICA WALKER with JAMES HOLMES on piano.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the ECCLES CENTRE FOR AMERICAN STUDIES at the BRITISH LIBRARY | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
In the fourth podcast in our THESE ISLANDS series, writer, broadcaster, and musician PHILIPPE AUCLAIR, speaks up for THE 3 MILLION: BRITAIN'S INVISIBLE MINORITY, reflecting on his time as a philosophy student in Paris, how his love of music and football brought him to London, and why he calls THESE ISLANDS home.
MUSIC: MY ENGLAND from THE WONDER OF IT ALL by LOUIS PHILIPPE.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with THESE ISLANDS | Music with thanks to PHILIPPE AUCLAIR, who kindly granted us permission to use his song, MY ENGLAND | Recorded at The Star of Kings, Kings Cross with thanks to our excellent hosts | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
In the second podcast in our THESE ISLANDS series, NIGEL BIGGAR, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Christ Church, University of Oxford, reflects on what the United Kingdom is good for.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with THESE ISLANDS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to this month's podcast series, a collaboration between ChromeRadio and THESE ISLANDS, about the United Kingdom, past and present, and how we can best forge a future that benefits everyone.
In our first podcast, UNITING, NOT DIVIDING, historian and author TOM HOLLAND - who grew up in Wiltshire - and ALI ANSARI, Professor of Iranian History at the University of St Andrews - who arrived in the UK following the Iranian Revolution - talk about the impetus behind THESE ISLANDS, and why they believe the United Kingdom is worth fighting for.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with THESE ISLANDS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
EPISODE 4 | WITNESS Pilots and intelligence officers on this year's strategy course at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies reflect on a recent study trip to Vietnam, their time in the US Air Force, call signs and the importance of teamwork.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIR AND SPACE STUDIES (SAASS), Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
In the final podcast in our THESE ISLANDS series, MICHAEL JARY, Senior Partner and co-founder of OC&C Strategy Consultants, reflects on Britain's standing on the world stage.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with THESE ISLANDS | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Military historian, DR RICHARD MULLER takes us on a tour of MONTGOMERY past and present.
Famous residents include JEFFERSON DAVIS, first President of the Confederacy during the Civil War, ROSA PARKS whose refusal to give up her seat triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and MARTIN LUTHER KING, who led the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights March. Just down the road from the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church where Martin Luther King preached was Chris' Hot Dogs, where fellow diners included ELVIS PRESLEY, and local resident, country music legend HANK WILLIAMS.
Montgomery also occupies an important place in the history of aviation. It was at nearby Maxwell Air Force Base that the WRIGHT BROTHERS established their flying school in 1910, and that the concept of strategic bombing was developed during the 1930s.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIR AND SPACE STUDIES (SAASS), Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to EPISODE 2 in our podcast series on THE STORY OF AIR POWER, which comes to you from Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama.
COLONEL STEPHEN RENNER, Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, and military historian, DR THOMAS HUGHES discuss strategic bombing and the search for golden targets and silver bullets, the function of air power in irregular warfare, including the role of humanitarian airlift, and what the future holds given the increasing use of drone warfare.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIR AND SPACE STUDIES (SAASS), Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Welcome to our podcast series on THE STORY OF AIR POWER, which comes to you from Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama.
In EPISODE 1, military historian DR THOMAS HUGHES charts the rise of air power from its first deployment during WW1 - following the Wright Brothers' successful flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903 - to the use of drones in Afghanistan and Iraq today, and the ethical challenges that creates.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the SCHOOL OF ADVANCED AIR AND SPACE STUDIES (SAASS), Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, Alabama | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
EPISODE 1 | WHEN THE LUSITANIA WENT DOWN
On 2 April 1917, President Woodrow Wilson went to Congress to seek permission to declare war. He was met with tumultuous applause and on 6 April 1917 America finally entered the conflict.
A new drama from Martyn Wade - ENTER THE PEACE BROKER - brings America’s journey into war vividly alive. Based on first-hand accounts – diaries, letters and contemporary press coverage – it is a compelling story of duplicity and diplomatic intrigue, of colourful personalities engaged in great power politics, and of secret communications between Washington, London and Berlin set against the backdrop of war.
FEBRUARY 1915. Colonel House, President Wilson’s right-hand man, is aboard the Lusitania bound for Liverpool. His mission: to negotiate peace. But the voyage is a perilous one. German submarines are on the prowl in the Irish Sea.
CAST (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE)
LORD NORTHCLIFFE – Henry Goodman | COLONEL HOUSE – Nathan Osgood | COUNT VON BERNSTORFF – Chris Pavlo | WILLIAM HINES PAGE – William Hope | COUNTESS BLÜCHER – Jasmine Hyde
CREDITS
Script consultant - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Director - Elizabeth Rigbey | Sound design - David Chilton | Songs performed by Jessica Walker, with James Holmes on piano
A ChromeRadio Production 2017 | With thanks to the Rothermere Foundation
EPISODE 5 | JOHNNY, GET YOUR GUN INTRODUCTION BY PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN
By the time America joined the War in April 1917, Britain was on the verge of bankruptcy. President Wilson had finally accepted that the US would have to fight if it wanted to help shape the peace, but there was concern in Britain that he did not appreciate how critical the Allied position had become. Professor Sir Hew Strachan considers how the peacemaker turned belligerent and the War Missions despatched by Britain to the US to press its case.
PRESENTER Sir Hew Strachan is Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a Life Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford (2002-2015) and Director of the Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War (2003-2012). He is a Trustee of the Imperial War Museum, and a Commonwealth War Graves Commissioner.
CREDITS Music - James Holmes on piano | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Recorded at Essential Music | A ChromeRadio Production 2017 | With thanks to the Rothermere Foundation.
EPISODE 4 | IT'S A LONG WAY TO BERLIN INTRODUCTION BY PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN
The failure of the German peace initiative of December 1916 made it impossible for Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg to resist pressure from the army and the navy to adopt unrestricted U-boat warfare. On 31 January 1917, the Kaiser finally announced that Germany would sink all shipping, neutral as well as belligerent, without warning. Professor Sir Hew Strachan examines how German belligerence finally brought the US into the First World War.
PRESENTER
Sir Hew Strachan is Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a Life Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford (2002-2015) and Director of the Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War (2003-2012). He is a Trustee of the Imperial War Museum, and a Commonwealth War Graves Commissioner.
CREDITS
Music - James Holmes on piano | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Recorded at Essential Music | A ChromeRadio Production 2017 | With thanks to the Rothermere Foundation.
EPISODE 3 | I DIDN'T RAISE MY BOY TO BE A SOLDIER INTRODUCTION BY PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN
The efforts of President Wilson’s adviser, Colonel House, to use the neutrality of the United States to broker a peace in 1915 and early 1916 had little hope of success. But by the end of 1916, the prospects for peace had improved. Professor Sir Hew Strachan considers Germany’s and America’s competing peace initiatives of December 1916.
PRESENTER
Sir Hew Strachan is Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a Life Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford (2002-2015) and Director of the Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War (2003-2012). He is a Trustee of the Imperial War Museum, and a Commonwealth War Graves Commissioner.
CREDITS
Music - James Holmes on piano | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Recorded at Essential Music | A ChromeRadio Production 2017 | With thanks to the Rothermere Foundation.
EPISODE 3 | I DIDN’T RAISE MY BOY TO BE A SOLDIER
On 2 April 1917, President Woodrow Wilson went to Congress to seek permission to declare war. He was met with tumultuous applause and on 6 April 1917 America finally entered the conflict. A new drama from Martyn Wade - ENTER THE PEACE BROKER - brings America’s journey into war vividly alive. Based on first-hand accounts – diaries, letters and contemporary press coverage – it is a compelling story of duplicity and diplomatic intrigue, of colourful personalities engaged in great power politics, and of secret communications between Washington, London and Berlin set against the backdrop of war.
NOVEMBER 1916. President Wilson is recovering from the stress of the election campaign. In Britain, the Asquith coalition is about to fall. The push for peace intensifies and Wilson finds himself wrong-footed by a peace offer from Berlin. Is Germany in earnest or is it a cynical ploy?
CAST (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE)
KURT RIEZLER – Gunnar Cauthery | LORD NORTHCLIFFE – Henry Goodman | COLONEL HOUSE – Nathan Osgood | EDITH BOLLING – Laurel Lefkow | AJ BALFOUR – Tim Woodward | MARGOT ASQUITH – Sophie Thompson | FRANCES STEVENSON – Tuppence Middleton | COUNT VON BERNSTORFF – Chris Pavlo | WILLIAM HINES PAGE – William Hope
CREDITS
Script consultant - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Director - Elizabeth Rigbey | Sound design - David Chilton | Songs performed by Jessica Walker, with James Holmes on piano
A ChromeRadio Production 2017 | With thanks to the Rothermere Foundation
EPISODE 1 | WHEN THE LUSITANIA WENT DOWN INTRODUCTION BY PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN
The story of the First World War runs in parallel with another narrative – the story of how to define peace and how to make that peace relevant to a world profoundly changed by war. Professor Sir Hew Strachan explores how the pursuit of peace became another form of war.
PRESENTER
Sir Hew Strachan is Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a Life Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford (2002-2015) and Director of the Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War (2003-2012). He is a Trustee of the Imperial War Museum, and a Commonwealth War Graves Commissioner.
CREDITS
Music - James Holmes on piano | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Recorded at Essential Music | A ChromeRadio Production 2017 | With thanks to the Rothermere Foundation.
EPISODE 5 | JOHNNY, GET YOUR GUN
On 2 April 1917, President Woodrow Wilson went to Congress to seek permission to declare war. He was met with tumultuous applause and on 6 April 1917 America finally entered the conflict.
A new drama from Martyn Wade - ENTER THE PEACE BROKER - brings America’s journey into war vividly alive. Based on first-hand accounts – diaries, letters and contemporary press coverage – it is a compelling story of duplicity and diplomatic intrigue, of colourful personalities engaged in great power politics, and of secret communications between Washington, London and Berlin set against the backdrop of war.
FEBRUARY 1917. President Wilson orders the arming of merchant ships as America drifts ever closer to war. On 2 April 1917, President Wilson addresses Congress and on 6 April America declares war on Germany. But has help come too late? Britain sends Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Washington to press the Allied cause.
CAST (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE)
LORD NORTHCLIFFE – Henry Goodman | KURT RIEZLER – Gunnar Cauthery | COLONEL HOUSE – Nathan Osgood | WILLIAM HINES PAGE – William Hope | EDITH WILSON – Laurel Lefkow | COUNT VON BERNSTORFF – Chris Pavlo | FRANCES STEVENSON – Tuppence Middleton | AJ BALFOUR – Tim Woodward
CREDITS
Script consultant - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Director - Elizabeth Rigbey | Sound design - David Chilton | Songs performed by Jessica Walker, with James Holmes on piano
A ChromeRadio Production 2017 | With thanks to the Rothermere Foundation
EPISODE 2 | THE HERO OF THE EUROPEAN WAR
On 2 April 1917, President Woodrow Wilson went to Congress to seek permission to declare war. He was met with tumultuous applause and on 6 April 1917 America finally entered the conflict.
A new drama from Martyn Wade - ENTER THE PEACE BROKER - brings America’s journey into war vividly alive. Based on first-hand accounts – diaries, letters and contemporary press coverage – it is a compelling story of duplicity and diplomatic intrigue, of colourful personalities engaged in great power politics, and of secret communications between Washington, London and Berlin set against the backdrop of war.
JUNE 1915. Anti-German feeling in America is running high following the sinking of the Lusitania. At the front, the Allies are not making the progress they had hoped for. But President Wilson refuses to be drawn into the conflict - he has an election at home to think about.
CAST (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE)
COUNT VON BERNSTORFF – Chris Pavlo | COLONEL HOUSE – Nathan Osgood | COUNTESS BLÜCHER – Jasmine Hyde | KURT RIEZLER – Gunnar Cauthery | LORD NORTHCLIFFE – Henry Goodman | MARGOT ASQUITH – Sophie Thompson | AJ BALFOUR – Tim Woodward | EDITH BOLLING – Laurel Lefkow | WILLIAM HINES PAGE – William Hope
CREDITS
Script consultant - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Director - Elizabeth Rigbey | Sound design - David Chilton | Songs performed by Jessica Walker, with James Holmes on piano
A ChromeRadio Production 2017 | With thanks to the Rothermere Foundation
EPISODE 2 | THE HERO OF THE EUROPEAN WAR INTRODUCTION BY PROFESSOR SIR HEW STRACHAN
Sir Edward Grey, the British Foreign Secretary, found himself treading a diplomatic tightrope: how ‘to secure the maximum of blockade that could be enforced without a rupture with the United States’? Professor Sir Hew Strachan reflects on the war at sea and the challenges of securing the right kind of peace.
PRESENTER
Sir Hew Strachan is Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, an Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and a Life Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He was formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War, University of Oxford (2002-2015) and Director of the Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War (2003-2012). He is a Trustee of the Imperial War Museum, and a Commonwealth War Graves Commissioner.
CREDITS
Music - James Holmes on piano | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Recorded at Essential Music | A ChromeRadio Production 2017 | With thanks to the Rothermere Foundation.
EPISODE 4 | IT’S A LONG WAY TO BERLIN
On 2 April 1917, President Woodrow Wilson went to Congress to seek permission to declare war. He was met with tumultuous applause and on 6 April 1917 America finally entered the conflict. A new drama from Martyn Wade - ENTER THE PEACE BROKER - brings America’s journey into war vividly alive. Based on first-hand accounts – diaries, letters and contemporary press coverage – it is a compelling story of duplicity and diplomatic intrigue, of colourful personalities engaged in great power politics, and of secret communications between Washington, London and Berlin set against the backdrop of war.
JANUARY 1917. Germany declares unrestricted U-boat warfare. President Wilson goes before the Senate to appeal to the world for ‘peace without victory’. But interception of a telegram from German Foreign Minister Zimmermann to the German Ambassador in Mexico City forces the peace broker President to reconsider his position.
CAST (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE)
KURT RIEZLER – Gunnar Cauthery | COUNT VON BERNSTORFF – Chris Pavlo | LORD NORTHCLIFFE – Henry Goodman | COLONEL HOUSE – Nathan Osgood | EDITH WILSON – Laurel Lefkow | WILLIAM HINES PAGE – William Hope | FRANCES STEVENSON – Tuppence Middleton | PRINCESS BLÜCHER – Jasmine Hyde | AJ BALFOUR – Tim Woodward
CREDITS
Script consultant - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Director - Elizabeth Rigbey | Sound design - David Chilton | Songs performed by Jessica Walker, with James Holmes on piano
A ChromeRadio Production 2017 | With thanks to the Rothermere Foundation
This month, we are in Vienna with American systems scientist JOHN CASTI, an expert on X-events. In EPISODE 4, the last podcast in the series, we learn how to anticipate, prepare for, and manage future X-events.
RECAP: in EPISODE 1, we entered the world of X-events. In EPISODE 2, we encountered Wittgenstein. measured complexity gaps, and kept a look out for plateaux morphing into mountain peaks. In EPISODE 3, we learned about resilience and the four 'As', survival Hundertwasser-style, and creative destruction.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with XEventDynamics LLC | Recorded on location in Vienna, October 2017 | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
This month, we are in Vienna with American systems scientist JOHN CASTI, an expert on X-events.
In EPISODE 1, we entered the world of X-events. In EPISODE 2, we encountered Wittgenstein. measured complexity gaps, and kept a look out for plateaux morphing into mountain peaks.
In EPISODE 3, we learn about resilience and the four 'As', survival Hundertwasser-style, and creative destruction.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with XEventDynamics LLC | Recorded on location in Vienna, October 2017 | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
This month, we are in Vienna with American systems scientist JOHN CASTI, an expert on X-events. In EPISODE 1, he introduced us to the world of X-events, with its shifting landscapes, complexity gaps, and random triggers.
In EPISODE 2, we encounter Wittgenstein and his passion for simplicity, learn how to measure complexity gaps, and understand how a comfortable plateau can morph into a perilous mountain peak!
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with XEventDynamics LLC | Recorded on location in Vienna, October 2017 | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Financial crises, disruptions to global communications systems, political upheavals, pandemics... Extreme - or 'X' - events are difficult to predict, high impact, and cause significant damage. How can we prepare for them, and can we survive them?
We travel to Vienna to meet American systems scientist JOHN CASTI, an expert on X-events, to find out more. Over coffee and cake in Café Landtmann, we enter a world of shifting landscapes, complexity gaps, and random triggers. Watch that precipice!
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with XEventDynamics LLC | Recorded on location in Vienna, October 2017 | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Dmitri Trenin, Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, on understanding Russia under Vladimir Putin.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with The Monthly Barometer and Anadeo, Chamonix | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
RONNIE CHAN, Chairman of Hang Lung Properties, on understanding China, including how doing business in China and Russia compares, and China-US relations.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with The Monthly Barometer and Anadeo, Chamonix | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Jean-Pierre Lehmann, Professor Emeritus at IMD in Switzerland and Visiting Professor at Hong Kong University, on understanding Asia, and the importance of being intellectually curious. [Postscript: very sadly, Professor Lehmann died on 21 December 2017, a few weeks after this podcast was released.]
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with The Monthly Barometer and Anadeo, Chamonix | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Paris-based Fionnuala O'Conor, Founder and CEO of Wevolve, on how growing up in Northern Ireland during the Troubles caused her to reflect on traditional power structures, and why today, as power shifts away from the nation state, we need new leadership models and ways of working.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with The Monthly Barometer and Anadeo, Chamonix | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
John Antonakis, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Université de Lausanne, on the key predictive factors in political leadership elections.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with The Monthly Barometer and Anadeo, Chamonix | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Former South African diplomat, Séan Cleary, on the challenges political leaders face when seeking consensus in multi-state dialogue, and how focusing on what a country can contribute and involving civil society in the process, as happened in South Africa in 1991 with the National Peace Accord, may be the future of global governance.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with The Monthly Barometer and Anadeo, Chamonix | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
John Lyons, Chief Executive of Cyber Essentials Direct, on the dark web and how businesses can lead the way in making the web a safer place for all.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with The Monthly Barometer and Anadeo, Chamonix | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Former BBC World News presenter, Nik Gowing, on findings from his 'Think the Unthinkable' project, and how the conformity that gets people to the top leaves them ill-equipped to understand the enormity of change and disruption under way in today's world.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with The Monthly Barometer and Anadeo, Chamonix | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Ravi Chaudhry, Chairman of CeNext Consulting, on the importance of responsible leadership, what it requires, and what happens to leaders who fail to change.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with The Monthly Barometer and Anadeo, Chamonix | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Blaise Agresti, former head of the Pelotons de gendarmerie de haute montagne (PGHM) in Chamonix, on his new venture, Mountain Path, and how he is using his experience of mountain rescue to teach companies what makes a successful leader.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with The Monthly Barometer and Anadeo, Chamonix | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Thierry Malleret, co-founder of The Monthly Barometer, on the Get-Together, the annual gathering of leaders from business, politics, and academia in Chamonix, in the heart of the French Alps, and why the home of mountaineering provides the ideal setting.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with The Monthly Barometer and Anadeo, Chamonix | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Singapore-based executive coach Rob Bier, Partner in Trellis Asia and Managing Partner, 6:30 Partners, on what leadership means, and the key quality leaders today require to address the global challenges of the 21st century.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with The Monthly Barometer and Anadeo, Chamonix | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Dr Katy Hayward moved to Northern Ireland in 1995. She reflects on the changes she has witnessed, and the impact of Brexit.
German postgraduate student Dominik Hamm arrived in Belfast in autumn 2016, shortly after the EU referendum. He talks about what Brexit could mean for him.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with Queen's University, Belfast | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Professor Glenn Patterson, writer and Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre, heads south for the border. He visits Omeath and Newry to find out how those living along the border see the future post-Brexit.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with Queen's University, Belfast | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Colin Harvey, Professor of Human Rights Law, on the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill 2017-19 and the key concerns the Bill raises as currently drafted.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with Queen's University, Belfast | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Professors Colin Harvey and Lee McGowan discuss the implications of Brexit for the Good Friday Agreement, the Common Travel Area, and the future of Northern Ireland as well as of the United Kingdom as a whole.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with Queen's University, Belfast | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
David Phinnemore, Professor of European Politics at Queen's University, Belfast, outlines the particular challenges Brexit presents for Northern Ireland, and thoughts on areas to explore in terms of possible solutions.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with Queen's University, Belfast | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
AMENEH MEHVAR, an international relations postgraduate at the University of St Andrews, talks about growing up during the Iran-Iraq War, studying abroad, and how the country has changed. Today, Iranians want evolution, not revolution. HUGO CORDEN-LLOYD, a post-graduate in Iranian studies at the University of St Andrews, talks about the time he spent in Tehran learning Persian, and how that has influenced the way he now sees Iran.
MUSIC | Dr Saeed Talajooy with Dr Parmis Mozafari on santoor (dulcimer) and daf (frame drum).
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the Institute for the Study of War and Strategy, University of St Andrews | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
DR SAEED TALAJOOY, Lecturer in Middle Eastern Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of St Andrews, explores the cultural legacy of three of Iran’s great capital cities – Hamadan, Isfahan, and Tehran.
He is accompanied by DR PARMIS MOZAFARI, Research Fellow at the Institute of Iranian Studies, University of St Andrews, on santoor (dulcimer) and daf (frame drum).
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the Institute for the Study of War and Strategy, University of St Andrews | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Iran’s foreign policy is driven by two opposing dynamics: the perception of itself as a re-emerging great power and its sense of siege. PROFESSOR ALI ANSARI and DR JASMINE GANI, Associate Director of the Centre for Syrian Studies at the University of St Andrews, discuss Iranian foreign policy in the Middle East, particularly in Syria, the outlook for the region and the implications for Iranian domestic politics.
MUSIC | Dr Parmis Mozafari on santoor.
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the Institute for the Study of War and Strategy, University of St Andrews | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.
Iran - better known in the West as Persia until the overthrow of the last Shah in 1979 - has a complex relationship with the West. ALI ANSARI, Professor of Iranian History at the University of St Andrews, explores the central role played by the Persians in the foundation of the West, the many cultural links between the two civilisations, and how the 1906 and 1979 revolutions have shaped modern Iran.
CONTENTS: Persia or Iran (1.53)| History and Myth (4.32)| Arab Muslim Conquests (8.02)| Omar Khayyam (10.13)| Ferdowsi and the Shahnameh (12.28)| Mongol Conquest (15.07)| Rise of the Safavids (17.54)| Emergence of Europe (19.20)| Rise and Fall of the Pahlavi Dynasty (23.18)| Revolution - 1906 and 1979 (26.00)| Last Word (28.05).
MUSIC | Dr Saeed Talajooy with Dr Parmis Mozafari on santoor (dulcimer) and daf (frame drum).
PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio in partnership with the Institute for the Study of War and Strategy, University of St Andrews | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.