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Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Soldiers, officers and military policemen give their perspective on how events unfolded during the mutiny in the British Army at Etaples in September 1917. Show more

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Dan Snow looks at the morale of men serving in WWI in 1914, from the relationship between officers and their troops, to rest period activities and steeling themselves for combat. Show more

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Dan Snow looks at the experiences of those who were fighting around Ypres in October and November 1914, using the archive collections of the Imperial War Museums and the BBC. Show more

Voices of the First World War

Episode 8: The Trenches 1914

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Dan Snow examines the experiences of soldiers in the rudimentary trenches of the first few months of the war, looking at what it was like to live in them for days at a time. Show more

Voices of the First World War

Episode 9: Prisoners of War

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Soldiers among the first to be taken prisoner describe their capture and the conditions they endured in German camps during the early stages of the war. Dan Snow presents. Show more

Voices of the First World War

From Beneath: Mines at Messines

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Survivors of the war describe the extraordinary feats of military engineering - and the deadly cost to German soldiers - involved in exploding huge mines at the Messines Ridge. Show more

Voices of the First World War

Omnibus 1915 Part Two

Duration: 57 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Dan Snow brings together the sound archive collections of the Imperial War Museums and the BBC to tell the story of World War I through the voices of those who were there. Show more

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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In interviews recorded by the BBC and the Imperial War Museums, men recall their devastating experiences in the wastelands of the Somme during Spring 1918. Show more

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Those who fought in the war recall the sense of impending collapse in 1918: the British desperately short of men on the front line, and the Germans bolstered but exhausted. Show more

Voices of the First World War

Episode 3: Outnumbered and Outgunned

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Dan Snow tells the story of the Great Retreat. Those who took part in the almost 200-mile journey across Belgium and France recall the experience. Show more

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Dan Snow hears the extraordinary experiences of those who took part in and witnessed the battles of the British and German navies during the first few months of the war. Show more

Voices of the First World War

Kut: Sand, Mud, Mirage

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

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Survivors of the First World War recall the siege of Kut-Al-Amara, which began in late 1915, drawing on the sound archives of the Imperial War Museums and the BBC. With Dan Snow. Show more