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Noise: A Human History: Shell Shock

Shell Shock

Noise: A Human History

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Noise: A Human History, Shell Shock

Soldiers in WW1 experienced a sonic onslaught. Prof Hendy considers life under bombardment

David Hendy visits Flanders, Belgium, to explore the sonic onslaught that was released at the Front during the First World War.

The rumble of artillery bombardment in Northern France could be heard as far away as Kent during the First World War. Up close in the trenches, soldiers experienced a sonic onslaught that continued night and day: howling shells, the machine gun's rattle, and the screams of injured men. 

Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex visits Flanders to relay echoes from the Front.

30-part series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive.

Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson. 
Producer: Matt Thompson

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