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The Brickstacks

63 min • 27 april 2025

Welcome to the latest episode!

Today, we walk the canal at Cuinchy, one of the forgotten battlefields of the Great War. Cuinchy was the site of the infamous brickstacks and the scene of bitter fighting throughout the entire war.

We walk the battlefield to discover the military history of what happened here, and hear the personal stories of the dead as we visit some of the nearby cemeteries.

The Brickstacks

Senaste avsnitt

Trench talk - Uniforms of the Great War with Taff Gillingham

Bois Grenier

Faithful unto death - the story of the Chinese Labour Corps

In the shadow of the Springboks - Delville Wood to Courcelette

The Brickstacks

Fromelles

We don't take umbrellas to war.

Neuve Chapelle

Hohenzollern

Trench Talk - Chris Sams and the Battle of Jutland

"I can't find the damned things!" - Ploegsteert to Le Gheer

Out of money and out of luck - life beyond the trenches

Feeding Tommy

Liquid fire

He is not missing, he is here.

I can't say my prayers on a stolen carpet..

The black lions of Cantigny

A potato and a propellor - Amiens at war

Here we fight, and here we die!

The black day of the German army

All roads lead to Ypres

A mile and a half of history - White House to Kitchener's Wood

Unseen and unwanted - a colonial soldier's war

The man they couldn't kill.

Palestine

Festubert - a walk round a battlefield

The Devil's breath

The farm cemeteries - Ypres

Trench Talk - Tom Isitt and the Italian Front

Fricourt

Special podcast update

Trench Talk - Roger Steward in conversation about Langemarck German Cemetery

Where it all began - Vimy

Beyond the front - Kemmel

Cambrai - one day on the battlefield

Cobbers - Australia on the Somme

Trench talk - Peter Doyle and the Princess Mary Christmas Box

Dud Corner - a journey through a cemetery

Trench Talk: Jules the Poilu - in conversation with Alexandre Lyons

The end of the line

The Foresters of Flanders

Bunkers and bards - Boesinghe to Ypres

The most dangerous man I ever knew.

Mazengarbe - a journey through a cemetery

Mount Sorrel

The Nivelle Offensive

Farming the front

Le Cateau - one day in August

Surrender be damned! The Battle of Frezenberg Ridge

The sculpting soldier

The lost cemetery

Fricourt to Flatiron

I died in hell....

The Astrologer of Flanders

Mr Tickler's Suicide Squad

Trench Talk: Dr Lindsey Fitzharris - The Facemaker

Le Touret - a journey through a cemetery

The sound of sadness - a journey round The Birdcage

Was I brave?

"Take one more step and I'll bloody shoot you!" - Aubers Ridge

Trench Talk: William Stroock - "Blackjack"

Conchies - the men who wouldn't fight

Gully Ravine

Here we fight and here we die!

Beyond the front - Epehy

God wears velvet........

One day in Artois

Footsteps in the city - six magnificent memorials

Trivial, Treatable, Terrible - medicine goes to War

Trench talk - Tim Godden illustrating the Great War

Croisilles - a journey through a cemetery

Suvla - catastrophe in the salt marsh

Carnoy - a story on the Somme

"No War today" - a soldier's view of the Christmas Truce

The Leipzig Redoubt

Trench Talk - Sarah Wearne: epitaphs of the Great War

Five years and five VCs

Turn left on Piccadilly - a day in the life of a British trench