Podcasts de belgium

This is why you go on walking tours (well, it’s one reason, a helluva good reason)

No need to beat around the bush with this one. Finding out about Tania’s Cafe is worth the...

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Ireland, Belgium, Iceland Preview

Ep 120 International football returns for the final time this year. We preview Ireland with...

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Ireland, Belgium & Iceland Review

Ep 122 We look back on the recent International window, with wins against Ireland and Iceland and...

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Ypres: Hell Fire Corner

Along the old Roman Road between Ypres and Menin was a road junction that became the main route...

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Trench Chat: Battlefield Tourism & Landscape with Amy Harrison

In this episode, we are joined by Military Historian Amy Harrison to discuss her work as a...

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Peace in No Man's Land: The Christmas Truce of 1914

On a cold winter's day in December 1914, the men of both sides emerged from their trenches. Not...

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Walking Ypres: Polygon Wood

Amidst the dark trees of Polygon Wood near Ypres, bunkers and old shell craters tell the story...

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Walking Ypres: Langemarck German Cemetery

We return to Flanders and walk the battlefields near the village of Langemarck across to...

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Remembrance: Unknown Warriors

Today is Armistice Day; a century ago in 1920, the body of the Unknown Warrior was laid to rest...

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The Day the Guns Fell Silent: Armistice 1918

As Remembrance Sunday approaches we look at the final day of the Great War on the Western Front....

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The Silent Cities

Rudyard Kipling called the cemeteries of the Great War 'Silent Cities', these vast cities of...

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Trench Chat: The Missing with John Broom

In this latest Trench Chat we talk to historian and author John Broom about his new book...

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The Missing of the Great War

The war poet Siegfried Sassoon referred to the Missing of the First World War as 'nameless...

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Ypres: A Walk to the Front Line

In this episode, we follow a route to the front line used by soldiers during the Great War....

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Flanders: Tyne Cot Cemetery

In this episode, we explore Tyne Cot Cemetery and Memorial. Tyne Cot, the largest British and...

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Return to the Old Front Line

This weeks episode was recorded a few weeks ago whilst on the battlefields of Flanders, and in...

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They Called It Passchendaele

What does Passchendaele mean to us, more than a century later? In this episode, we walk an...

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Walking Ypres: Sanctuary Wood

In this episode we walk from the Menin Road, along Maple Avenue to Sanctuary Wood British...

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Walking Ypres: Kemmel Hill

In this episode we walk from the village of Locre (now Loker) to Kemmel Hill in Flanders. Along...

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Ypres: Hill 60

Once the haunt of lovers, these gentle slopes on a Flanders landscape became Hill 60 to the...

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