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World War One

by BBC Radio

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About the show

The events of the first truly global war and its devastating and far reaching impact.

Latest episodes

  • USA: Isolationism

    June 27, 2015 · 50 min

    How did WW1 change America's place in the world? Jonathan Dimbleby presents a public debate from the US Library of Congress in Washington

  • Germany: The Waging of War

    June 26, 2015 · 50 min

    How did technological and industrial development revolutionise World War One? The tank, gas, flame throwers, Zeppelins were like nothing that had been experienced before.

  • Sarajevo: Nationalism

    June 26, 2015 · 50 min

    A century ago a shot rang out in Sarajevo which set the world on a path to war. How did the peace made after WW1 influence the ethnic conflicts in the region during the 1990s?

  • Jordan: Redrawing the Middle East

    June 22, 2015 · 50 min

    How did World War One change the face of the Middle East? And, how did this seismic and controversial period shape the century to follow?

  • Britain: The Psychology of War

    April 30, 2015 · 50 min

    What drove men to volunteer to fight during World War One? What drove them to the edge of sanity when they got there?

  • Australia: The Legend of Anzac

    April 18, 2015 · 50 min

    Australia's experience of WW1 is like no other country's. What role has the 'legend of Anzac' played in the hundred-year history of Australia?

  • Tanzania: Race and Colonial War

    April 11, 2015 · 50 min

    Audrey Brown chairs a discussion on the effects of World War One in Africa. She hears the stories from African fighters, on both the German and British sides. And she speaks to Tanzanians who tell their family memories, like Oswald Masebo…

  • France: Heroism

    December 6, 2014 · 50 min

    Life in the trenches during World War One, amongst rats, mud, shelling, barbed wire and unprecedented numbers of dead, called upon new reserves of both endurance and courage. But what did the war do to the ancient idea of heroism?