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World War One Episodes

  1. WW1 At 91热爆 9 - Wartime Drunkeness & a Belgian Refugee's Tale

    The wartime experiment that aimed to tackle drunkenness in Carlisle, the grandson of a...

  2. WW1 At 91热爆 8 - Conscientious Objectors

    The 'Winchester Whisperer' 鈥� the secret newspaper produced by the Conscientious of...

  3. WW1 At 91热爆 7 - The Hartlepool Bombardment & the Glasgow Rent Protests

    The first attack on British soil for centuries, the Govan woman who battled for a fair...

  4. WW1 At 91热爆 6 - Women's Football, Anti-German Riots & the Soldier's Song

    The Newcastle women's football champions who were unbeaten during the war, the Hull of...

  5. WW1 At 91热爆 5 - Brighton Pavilion: a Hospital for Indian Troops

    Over a million Indian soldiers fought alongside the British Army during WW1, and were...

  6. WW1 At 91热爆 4 - Nursing Heroines & Lost Treasure

    Kate Adie joins in a tribute to Elsie Knocker & Mairi Chisholm, famous nursing of the...

  7. WW1 At 91热爆 20 - The Baghdadi Jews & a Terrier on Zeppelin watch

    How Manchester鈥檚 Baghdadi Jews fought to be recognised as friends of Britain and Jim...

  8. WW1 At 91热爆 2 - Zeppelin Raids; Airship Patrols; Scouts on Standby

    How a Scarborough home was immortalised in WW1 propaganda, defending the Irish coast...

  9. WW1 At 91热爆 19 - Tank Trials & Making Jam for the Frontline

    The technical innovation that led to the birth of the tank, tales from the grandsons...

  10. WW1 At 91热爆 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;...

  11. WW1 At 91热爆 17 - The Sikh Contribution & the Merseyside Ferries

    The two Merseyside ferries who earned their 'Royal' title in a daring wartime raid, a...

  12. WW1 At 91热爆 16 - The Chilwell Explosion & a Wartime Entertainer

    Kate Adie reports on the Nottinghamshire munitions factory disaster. Also - the trains...

  13. WW1 At 91热爆 15 - Pilot Hero Mick Mannock & Flora Sandes' Enlistment

    Three WW1 characters. Flora Sandes, who enlisted and fought as a soldier in Serbia.

  14. WW1 At 91热爆 14 - A Captain's Execution & U-boat Defences

    The story of Captain Fryatt - a civilian naval officer executed by the Germans, and of...

  15. WW1 At 91热爆 13 - Sikh Soldiers & Pilot Heroes

    The valiant Sikh contribution, the drama of those first training flights above the of...

  16. WW1 At 91热爆 12 - The Football Icon and The War Poet

    The football coach and Derby County football icon stranded in Berlin during World War...

  17. WW1 At 91热爆 11 - The 'White Feather' Campaign & a Popular WW1 French Tipple

    The birth of the 'White Feather' campaign in Folkestone, the pill boxes built to repel...

  18. WW1 At 91热爆 10 - Medical Breakthroughs & the 'Chocolate Soldier'

    Medical innovation from a wartime surgeon, a soldier's satirical spin on World War and...

  19. WW1 At 91热爆 1 - Spies, Bravery & Acme Whistles

    Three WW1 home front stories: how German spies were executed at the Tower of London, &...

  20. Women's lives on the 91热爆 Front

    Woman's Hour goes behind the scenes at new Radio 4 drama 91热爆 Front, as it begins its...

  21. Woman's Hour: Changing Woman's Lives

    From 91热爆 Radio 4: How the war shaped the lives of a generation of women.co.uk/ww1.

  22. Woman's Hour: Campaign for Nurses' War Memorial

    From 91热爆 Radio 4: During the First and Second World War at least 1700 nurses gave in...

  23. Woman's Hour Women and the War - a young widow's story

    How a night out to Manchester鈥檚 Palace Theatre in 1914 was to change forever the of...

  24. Woman's Hour - Women and the War - A signaller's story

    In 1918, Annie May Martin was a telegraphist working in France. Her role with the Army...

  25. Veterans: From WW1 to Afghanistan

    Radio 1's Greg James hears from British troops who served in Afghanistan as they their...

  26. USA: Isolationism

    How World War One changed America's place in the world and its attitude to world affairs

  27. The War that Changed the World: Part Two

    The tank, gas, flame throwers, Zeppelins - the weapons of World War One were like that...

  28. 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...

  29. The Great War of Words, Episode 2

    From 91热爆 Radio 4 Responsibility for the Great War has been a fierce battle for meaning...

  30. The Great War of Words, Episode 1

    Michael Portillo reveals how our understanding of the war has been distorted through a...

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