World War One

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World War One

World War One

Ersteller: BBC Radio

The events of the first truly global war and its devastating and far reaching impact.

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USA: Isolationism

USA: Isolationism

How did WW1 change America's place in the world? Jonathan Dimbleby presents a public debate from the US Library of Congress in Washington

2015-06-27 10:30:00 3001
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Germany: The Waging of War

Germany: The Waging of War

How did technological and industrial development revolutionise World War One? The tank, gas, flame throwers, Zeppelins were like nothing that had been...

2015-06-26 12:45:00 3004
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Sarajevo: Nationalism

Sarajevo: Nationalism

A century ago a shot rang out in Sarajevo which set the world on a path to war. How did the peace made after WW1 influence the ethnic conflicts in the...

2015-06-26 06:14:00 3005
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Jordan: Redrawing the Middle East

Jordan: Redrawing the Middle East

How did World War One change the face of the Middle East? And, how did this seismic and controversial period shape the century to follow?

2015-06-22 07:49:00 2993
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Britain: The Psychology of War

Britain: The Psychology of War

What drove men to volunteer to fight during World War One? What drove them to the edge of sanity when they got there?

2015-04-30 10:34:00 3005
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Australia: The Legend of Anzac

Australia: The Legend of Anzac

Australia's experience of WW1 is like no other country's. What role has the 'legend of Anzac' played in the hundred-year history of Australia?

2015-04-18 11:30:00 3001
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Tanzania: Race and Colonial War

Tanzania: Race and Colonial War

Audrey Brown chairs a discussion on the effects of World War One in Africa. She hears the stories from African fighters, on both the German and Britis...

2015-04-11 10:30:00 3003
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France: Heroism

France: Heroism

Life in the trenches during World War One, amongst rats, mud, shelling, barbed wire and unprecedented numbers of dead, called upon new reserves of bot...

2014-12-06 11:05:00 2999
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WW1 At Home 20 - The Baghdadi Jews & a Terrier on Zeppelin watch

WW1 At Home 20 - The Baghdadi Jews & a Terrier on Zeppelin watch

How Manchester’s Baghdadi Jews fought to be recognised as friends of
Britain and Jim the dog who helped keep the Kent coast safe.

2014-11-13 09:53:00 864
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India: Imperialism

India: Imperialism

Hugely influential in the outcome of the war, its aftermath had a huge effect on India and its role in the British Empire.

2014-11-08 11:05:00 3003
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WW1 At Home 19 - Tank Trials & Making Jam for the Frontline

WW1 At Home 19 - Tank Trials & Making Jam for the Frontline

The technical innovation that led to the birth of the tank, tales from the grandsons of the Guernsey soldier who travelled all over the
world a...

2014-10-23 06:20:00 924
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Soldiers of the Empire 2/2 – The Fight in Fairyland

Soldiers of the Empire 2/2 – The Fight in Fairyland

Santanu Das tells the story of the Indian Army on the Western Front, from disembarkation in Marseilles where the troops were greeted by excited crowds...

2014-10-22 03:00:00 1695
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Soldiers of the Empire – Recruitment & Resistance

Soldiers of the Empire – Recruitment & Resistance

One and a half million Indian men were recruited from the villages and towns of British India to serve the Empire in the First World War. Santanu Das...

2014-10-20 05:31:00 1670
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St Petersburg: Revolution

St Petersburg: Revolution

The Romanovs ruled Russia for centuries until World War One brought revolution and an abrupt end to their imperial reign. Allan Little explores the le...

2014-10-18 10:05:00 3000
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WW1 At Home 18 - R&R for American Volunteers & a Bristol Love Song

WW1 At Home 18 - R&R for American Volunteers & a Bristol Love Song

A place in the heart of London where the American soldiers got a little taste of home; a project mapping the lives of nearly 2000 men in Tynemouth, Ty...

2014-10-16 08:25:00 1014
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Keep the Home Fires Burning

Keep the Home Fires Burning

Don Black tells the fascinating story of Ivor Novello and the song that made his name. Keep The Home Fires Burning marks the centenary of a song that...

2014-10-11 10:30:00 3304
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WW1 At Home 17 - The Sikh Contribution & the Merseyside Ferries

WW1 At Home 17 - The Sikh Contribution & the Merseyside Ferries

The two Merseyside ferries who earned their 'Royal' title in a daring wartime raid, a Coventry memorial which marks the Sikhs role in World War One,...

2014-10-10 09:15:00 868
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Episode 3 - Forgotten Heroes, The Indian Army in the Great War

Episode 3 - Forgotten Heroes, The Indian Army in the Great War

In the third part of his documentary looking at the Asian contribution to WW1, Sarfraz Manzoor examines the effect of WW1 on India, nationally and loc...

2014-10-09 08:30:00 1742
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WW1 At Home 16 - The Chilwell Explosion & a Wartime Entertainer

WW1 At Home 16 - The Chilwell Explosion & a Wartime Entertainer

Kate Adie reports on the Nottinghamshire munitions factory disaster. Also - the ambulance trains of Lowth & forces sweetheart, Gertie Gitana, who beca...

2014-10-02 10:15:00 853
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WW1 At Home 15 - Pilot Hero Mick Mannock & Flora Sandes' Enlistment

WW1 At Home 15 - Pilot Hero Mick Mannock & Flora Sandes' Enlistment

Three WW1 characters. Flora Sandes, who enlisted and fought as a soldier in Serbia. Mick Mannock, the British 'Ace of Aces'; and 3 yr old Khaki George...

2014-09-24 05:22:00 877
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WW1 At Home 14 - A Captain's Execution & U-boat Defences

WW1 At Home 14 - A Captain's Execution & U-boat Defences

The story of Captain Fryatt - a civilian naval officer executed by the Germans, and the Royal Navy tactic of deploying 'Q ships'. These resembled Brit...

2014-09-17 05:30:00 789
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The War That Changed The World: Istanbul - Modernity and Secularism

The War That Changed The World: Istanbul - Modernity and Secularism

Turkey emerged from the First World War as a new republic, with a secular and modern identity, attempting to break from its Ottoman past. How has this...

2014-09-08 04:28:00 3002
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Episode 2 - Forgotten Heroes, The Indian Army in the Great War

Episode 2 - Forgotten Heroes, The Indian Army in the Great War

In the second part of his documentary looking at the Asian contribution to WW1, Sarfraz Manzoor charts the experiences of soldiers and labourers in Me...

2014-08-21 08:30:00 1742
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Episode 1 - Forgotten Heroes, The Indian Army in the Great War

Episode 1 - Forgotten Heroes, The Indian Army in the Great War

Sarfraz Manzoor tells the story of the 1.27m men from the Indian Army who fought valiantly in the Great War, through a series of the soldiers' letters...

2014-08-20 08:30:00 1742
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Heroes at War: Frederick Kelly

Heroes at War: Frederick Kelly

Two time Olympic gold medalist Steve Williams tells the story of Frederick "Clegg" Kelly, Olympic rowing champion and one of Britain's leading compose...

2014-08-13 08:30:00 2884
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Heroes at War: Walter Tull

Heroes at War: Walter Tull

Ex-Northampton Town player Clarke Carlisle tells the story of Walter Tull, the first Afro-Caribbean outfield player in the top division of English foo...

2014-08-12 08:30:00 2839
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Veterans: From WW1 to Afghanistan

Veterans: From WW1 to Afghanistan

Radio 1's Greg James hears from British troops who served in Afghanistan as they contrast their experiences with those who fought in World War One. Mi...

2014-08-05 08:30:00 3578
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Women's lives on the Home Front

Women's lives on the Home Front

Woman's Hour goes behind the scenes at new Radio 4 drama Home Front, as it begins its four-year run. Actor Harriet Walter talks about her cameo role a...

2014-08-04 08:30:00 1111
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WW1 At Home 13 - Sikh Soldiers & Pilot Heroes

WW1 At Home 13 - Sikh Soldiers & Pilot Heroes

The valiant Sikh contribution, the drama of those first training flights above the meadows of Oxfordshire, and a bittersweet story of two families bro...

2014-08-03 07:10:00 809
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How Britain Went to War

How Britain Went to War

Leading Whitehall historian Peter Hennessy examines Britain's secret war planning and preparations before 1914. Drawing on official papers, sound arch...

2014-07-28 08:30:00 3406
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The War that Changed the World: Part Two

The War that Changed the World: Part Two

The tank, gas, flame throwers, Zeppelins - the weapons of World War One were like nothing that had been experienced before. At a special event with th...

2014-07-19 10:06:00 3002
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Minds at War - The Grieving Parents

Minds at War - The Grieving Parents

Poet Ruth Padel reflects on German artist Kathe Kollwitz's memorial for her son, who died on the battlefields of the First World War in October 1914....

2014-07-19 08:30:00 818
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Minds at War - The Broken Wing

Minds at War - The Broken Wing

Santanu Das discusses Indian poet Sarojini Naidu's 1917 collection The Broken Wing. Born in Hyderabad in 1879, Naidu became known as "the Nightingale...

2014-07-18 08:30:00 828
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Minds at War - Fighting France

Minds at War - Fighting France

BBC Correspondent Lyse Doucet introduces novelist Edith Wharton's reportage from wartime France. Wharton, best known for The Age Of Innocence and The...

2014-07-17 08:30:00 843
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Minds at War - Battleship Potemkin

Minds at War - Battleship Potemkin

For Russians of director Sergei Eisenstein's generation, the experience of the First World War was overtaken by the revolution of 1917, which took Rus...

2014-07-16 08:30:00 821
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Minds at War - Le Feu

Minds at War - Le Feu

Completed in 1916, Le Feu was the first explicit account of conditions at the front. French soldier Henri Barbusse's novel proved a revelation to a Fr...

2014-07-15 08:30:00 826
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Minds at War - Thoughts for the Times on War and Death

Minds at War - Thoughts for the Times on War and Death

The declaration of war in 1914 was initially met with jubilation by the people of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and, in Vienna, Sigmund Freud shared the...

2014-07-14 08:30:00 815
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Minds at War - The Memorandum on the Neglect of Science

Minds at War - The Memorandum on the Neglect of Science

Professor David Edgerton reflects on a WW1 clarion-call from the British scientific establishment. In a letter to The Times in 1916, many of the great...

2014-07-09 08:30:00 829
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Minds at War - Der Krieg

Minds at War - Der Krieg

In 1924, six years after the end of hostiliies, the painter Otto Dix, who had been a machine-gunner in the German Army, produced his 51 Der Krieg prin...

2014-07-08 08:30:00 830
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Minds at War - Non-Combatants and Others

Minds at War - Non-Combatants and Others

Rose Macaulay is perhaps best remembered for her final novel, The Towers of Trebizond, but her biographer, Sarah LeFanu, has long believed that her ea...

2014-07-07 08:30:00 756
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