BBC Radio Podcasts from World War One
USA: Isolationism
How World War One changed America's place in the world and its attitude to world affairs
Germany: The Waging of War
The tank, flame throwers and Zeppelins were like nothing that had been experienced before
Sarajevo: Nationalism
Exactly 100 years ago a shot rang out in Sarajevo which set the world on a path to war
Jordan: Redrawing the Middle East
Redrawing the Middle East and the legacy of WW1
Britain: The Psychology of War
What drove men to volunteer to fight during World War One? What drove them to the edge?
Australia: The Legend of Anzac
What role has the 'legend of Anzac' played in the hundred-year history of Australia?
Tanzania: Race and Colonial War
Audrey Brown chairs a discussion on the effects of World War One in Africa.
France: Heroism
Life in the trenches during WW1 called upon new reserves of endurance and courage.
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...
India: Imperialism
The war and aftermath had a huge effect on India and its role in the British Empire.
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...
Soldiers of the Empire 2/2 – The Fight in Fairyland
Santanu Das tells the story of the Indian Army on the Western Front, from in where the...
Soldiers of the Empire – Recruitment & Resistance
One and a half million Indian men were recruited from the villages and towns of India...
St Petersburg: Revolution
The Romanovs ruled Russia for centuries until World War One brought revolution and an...
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;...
Keep the Home Fires Burning
Don Black tells the fascinating story of Ivor Novello and the song that made his name.
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...
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...
WW1 At Home 16 - The Chilwell Explosion & a Wartime Entertainer
Kate Adie reports on the Nottinghamshire munitions factory disaster. Also - the trains...
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.
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 of...
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...
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, charts...
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 in a...
Heroes at War: Frederick Kelly
Two time Olympic gold medalist Steve Williams tells the story of Frederick "Clegg" and...
Heroes at War: Walter Tull
Ex-Northampton Town player Clarke Carlisle tells the story of Walter Tull, the first...
Veterans: From WW1 to Afghanistan
Radio 1's Greg James hears from British troops who served in Afghanistan as they their...
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...
WW1 At Home 13 - Sikh Soldiers & Pilot Heroes
The valiant Sikh contribution, the drama of those first training flights above the of...
How Britain Went to War
Leading Whitehall historian Peter Hennessy examines Britain's secret war planning and...
The War that Changed the World: Part Two
The tank, gas, flame throwers, Zeppelins - the weapons of World War One were like that...
Minds at War - The Grieving Parents
Poet Ruth Padel reflects on German artist Kathe Kollwitz's memorial for her son, who...
Minds at War - The Broken Wing
Santanu Das discusses Indian poet Sarojini Naidu's 1917 collection The Broken Wing.
Minds at War - Fighting France
BBC Correspondent Lyse Doucet introduces novelist Edith Wharton's reportage from...
Minds at War - Battleship Potemkin
For Russians of director Sergei Eisenstein's generation, the experience of the First a...
Minds at War - Le Feu
Completed in 1916, Le Feu was the first explicit account of conditions at the front.
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...
Minds at War - The Memorandum on the Neglect of Science
Professor David Edgerton reflects on a WW1 clarion-call from the British scientific...
Minds at War - Der Krieg
In 1924, six years after the end of hostiliies, the painter Otto Dix, who had been a...
Minds at War - Non-Combatants and Others
Rose Macaulay is perhaps best remembered for her final novel, The Towers of Trebizond,...
Minds at War - Paths of Glory
CRW Nevinson's painting Paths of Glory is a distant cry from the rallying recruitment...
Free Thinking - Oh What A Lovely Savas
'Oh what a lovely Savas' begins Rana Mitter in this edition of Free Thinking, using...
Free Thinking - Wood and Trees: War and Remembrance
From Paul Nash paintings of blasted tree stumps in the first world war to today's Paul...
Free Thinking - Balancing Power in WW1 and Now
The First World War shattered the power balance in Europe. As we confront an uncertain...
Free Thinking - The Thirty-Nine Steps
John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps first appeared in Blackwoods Magazine in August on...
Gavrilo Princip's Footprint
On the sunny morning of June 28 1914, Gavrilo Princip shot dead the Archduke Ferdinand...
Sound of Cinema - The First World War
Matthew Sweet looks at music for films set against the background of WW1, including La...
Nationalism The War That Changed the World
An epic exploration of the legacy of World War One begins with this panel and audience...
Music Matters - The Legacy of WW1 in Music
How did composers such as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Alban Berg and Maurice Ravel react...
Month of Madness - London
Professor Christopher Clark unpicks the complex sequence of events that led to WW1.
Month of Madness - The French in St Petersburg
Christopher Clark continues to unpick the complex sequence of events during the 1914...
Month of Madness - Berlin
Christopher Clark unpicks the complex sequence of events during the 'July Crisis' of 1914.
Month of Madness - Vienna
Christopher Clark continues to unpick the complex sequence of events leading to WW1.
Month of Madness - Sarajevo
Prof Christopher Clark unpicks the complex sequence of events that led to the First...
WW1 At Home 12 - The Football Icon and The War Poet
The football coach and Derby County football icon stranded in Berlin during World War...
WW1 At Home 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...
WW1 At Home 10 - Medical Breakthroughs & the 'Chocolate Soldier'
Medical innovation from a wartime surgeon, a soldier's satirical spin on World War and...
WW1 At Home 9 - Wartime Drunkeness & a Belgian Refugee's Tale
The wartime experiment that aimed to tackle drunkenness in Carlisle, the grandson of a...
WW1 At Home 8 - Conscientious Objectors
The 'Winchester Whisperer' – the secret newspaper produced by the Conscientious of...
WW1 At Home 7 - The Hartlepool Bombardment & the Glasgow Rent Protests
The first attack on British soil for centuries, the Govan woman who battled for a fair...
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...
WW1 At Home 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...
WW1 At Home 5 - Brighton Pavilion: a Hospital for Indian Troops
Over a million Indian soldiers fought alongside the British Army during WW1, and were...
WW1 At Home 4 - Nursing Heroines & Lost Treasure
Kate Adie joins in a tribute to Elsie Knocker & Mairi Chisholm, famous nursing of the...
At Home 3 - The Spy on the Forth; Lizzie the Elephant; a Gardener Goes to War
How a German spy raised suspicions in Edinburgh; letters home show how a gardener from...
WW1 At Home 2 - Zeppelin Raids; Airship Patrols; Scouts on Standby
How a Scarborough home was immortalised in WW1 propaganda, defending the Irish coast...
WW1 At Home 1 - Spies, Bravery & Acme Whistles
Three WW1 home front stories: how German spies were executed at the Tower of London, &...
The Cultural Front - Ep3: Kandinsky, Khaki & Kisses
For Radio 4, Francine Stock explores how artists responded to the outbreak of war on...
The Cultural Front - Ep2 : Popular Culture
For Radio 4, Francine Stock explores the music and images of popular culture in Russia...
The Cultural Front - Ep1 : Words for Battle
Francine Stock begins her exploration of the culture of the Great War in 1914 with the...
Woman's Hour Women and the War - a young widow's story
How a night out to Manchester’s Palace Theatre in 1914 was to change forever the of...
Woman's Hour: Campaign for Nurses' War Memorial
From BBC Radio 4: During the First and Second World War at least 1700 nurses gave in...
The Great War of Words, Episode 2
From BBC Radio 4 Responsibility for the Great War has been a fierce battle for meaning...
Woman's Hour: Changing Woman's Lives
From BBC Radio 4: How the war shaped the lives of a generation of women.co.uk/ww1.
The Great War of Words, Episode 1
Michael Portillo reveals how our understanding of the war has been distorted through a...