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A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918. In August 2018, students from across the United Kingdom joined students from France, the United States, Canada and Australia on the Western Front to commemorate the Battle of Amiens. This podcast series, recorded mostly during that battlefield tour, tell the story of the Battle of Amiens in the wider context of the First World War and the road to armistice. In this podcast, we join the students on their visit to a battlefield cemetery in CATERPILLAR VALLEY. Situated in the southern sector of the Somme battlefield, this was a part of the Front where there were Allied successes during the Somme offensive. CONTRIBUTORS | Simon Bendry, Director, First World War Centenary Battlefield Tour Programme, UCL Institute of Education - Sir Hew Strachan, Professor of International Relations, University of St Andrews. IMAGE | ChromeRadio PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.

Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort. In this podcast, novelist SEBASTIAN FAULKS, author of BIRDSONG, reflects on the First World War Centenary. IMAGE | From Weeping Window, Imperial War Museum, London - ChromeRadio. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.

A series of podcasts commissioned by UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME to mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS on 8 August 1918. In August 2018, students from across the United Kingdom joined students from France, the United States, Canada and Australia on the Western Front to commemorate the Battle of Amiens. This podcast series, recorded mostly during that battlefield tour, tell the story of the Battle of Amiens in the wider context of the First World War and the road to armistice. In this podcast, we mark the CENTENARY of the BATTLE OF AMIENS with a series of reflections from representatives of the Allied nations, recorded during the battlefield tour at the Château de Flixecourt and Amiens Cathedral. CONTRIBUTORS | THE RT HON JEREMY WRIGHT, MP, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport | DR ANDREW MURRISON, MP, Prime Minister's Special Representative for the Commemoration of the First World War Centenary | MONIQUE SEEFRIED, Commissioner, US WW1 Centennial Commission | THE HON SEAMUS O'REGAN MP, Minister of Veterans Affairs & Associate Minister of National Defence, Government of Canada | COLONEL SCOTT CLINGAN, Australian Defence Force Attaché for WW1 Western Front Commemorations | COLONEL ANTHONY EGAN, Defence Attaché, Australian Embassy, Paris | Members of the group representing FRANCE on the battlefield tour | BOB LEWIS, Director, British Council, France | MONSEIGNEUR OLIVIER LEBORGNE, Bishop of Amiens | REVEREND DR DAVID COULTER, Chaplain General to HM Land Forces | NICK PERRY, Permanent Secretary, Department of Justice, Northern Ireland. READINGS | Cadet PO1 Jenna McKay, ROYAL CANADIAN SEA CADET - Cadet Sergeant Heidi Kelly, ROYAL CANADIAN AIR CADET - Sergeant Quentin Davis, INFANTRY BRIGADE COMBAT TEAM, US ARMY - AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE CADET - Sydnee Thorne, DUKE OF YORK ROYAL MILITARY SCHOOL, DOVER. MUSIC | Land of Promise (Terry Devine-King) licensed courtesy of audionetwork | Music from the service in Notre Dame Cathedral, Amiens, on 8 August 2018 marking the Centenary of the Battle of Amiens - performers include an international military band led by the CENTRAL BAND OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE, and the National Youth Choir of Great Britain. IMAGE | Notre Dame Cathedral, Amiens - ChromeRadio PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for UCL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATION'S FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY EDUCATION PROGRAMME | Executive Producer - Simon Bendry | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.

Welcome to the BRITISH HOME FRONT IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR. This series was recorded at the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS in June 2018 to accompany a conference marking the contribution by the peoples of the British Isles to the national war effort. In this podcast, JENNY WALDMAN, Director of 14-18 NOW, reflects on the First World War Centenary. IMAGE | Weeping Window, Imperial War Museum, London - ChromeRadio. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS With thanks to JOHN CAWTHORN and the 1926 FOUNDATION for making this podcast series possible, and to the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and the SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT for supporting the Conference. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS | Music performed by the PIPES AND DRUMS of the ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS | Series Editor - Professor Sir Hew Strachan | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Chris Sharp.

Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home. The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme. In this podcast, LIEUTENANT CECIL LEWIS recalls flying over the Somme on the morning of 1 July 1916. Cecil Lewis was born in 1898. He joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1915. SOURCE | SAGITTARIUS RISING, Cecil Lewis (1936) PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Simon Bendry | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.

Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home. The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme. In this podcast, POLLY HAAS talks about her grandfather, LIEUTENANT CECIL LEWIS (PODCAST 10) and the Battle of the Somme. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.

Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home. The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme. In this podcast, PRIVATE JACK COUSINS recalls his experiences on the Somme. Jack Cousins was a farmer’s boy from Trowley Bottom near St Albans. He enlisted with the 7th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment in September 1914 along with 10 of his friends. PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Norman Goodman | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.

Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home. The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme. In this podcast, LIEUTENANT CHARLES SAUNDERS writes a last letter home before his battalion went 'over the top' on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Charles Saunders was born in Lowestoft in 1888. When war broke out, he was working for the Beccles branch of Barclays Bank. He enlisted in the Scots Greys before being commissioned into the 15th Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment. SOURCE | Clive Harris PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Peter Walton | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.

Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home. The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme. In this podcast, PRIVATE WILL MARSHALL remembers 'going over the top' on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. William Marshall was born in Burnley in 1893. He was working as a cotton weaver when he enlisted in the Accrington Pals on 17 September 1914. On 1 July 1916, his Battalion went ‘over the top’ opposite the village of Serre in the northern sector of the Somme. SOURCE | http://www.pals.org.uk/marshall.htm PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Norman Goodman | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.

Welcome to THE STORY OF THE SOMME podcast series, which tells the story of the Somme Offensive in the words of those fighting on the Western Front and their families back home. The series was commissioned by the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT and developed in partnership with the FIRST WORLD WAR CENTENARY BATTLEFIELD TOURS PROGRAMME and CHROMERADIO. It was first released to accompany the SOMME100 VIGIL at Westminster Abbey, held through the night of 30 June/1 July 2016 to mark the centenary of the opening of the Battle of the Somme. In this podcast, LANCE CORPORAL SIDNEY RICHARDS recalls the action at Gommecourt on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Sidney Richards was born in West Bromwich in 1895. Before the War, he had worked as a glass silverer and a clerk. He joined the 137th Brigade, Machine Gun Company and took part in the artillery bombardment before the men went ‘over the top’ on 1 July 1916. His account of the action at Gommecourt that morning was published in the Trinity Church Parish Magazine. SOURCE | Andrew Thornton PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio for the DEPARTMENT FOR DIGITAL, CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT | Producer - Catriona Oliphant | Narrator - Nicholas Rowe | Reader - Simon Bendry | The Last Post played by LSgt Stuart Laing, Welsh Guards on a First World War bugle.