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01 March 2014: Lurgan Courthouse, Co. Armagh Sat, 1 Mar 14 Lurgan Courthouse, now a bar and bistro in the town, once loomed over soldiersa? wives accused of drunk and disorderly behaviour.
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02 March 2014: Redmond's speech, Woodenbridge Sun, 2 Mar 14 In September 1914, MP John Redmond made an impromptu and divisive speech at Woodenbridge, Co Wicklow.
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03 March 2014: Bentra Airships, Whitehead Mon, 3 Mar 14 Bentra Golf Course in Whitehead is revealed as the site of an airship mooring station, crucial in the fight against the scourge of German U-Boats.
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04 March 2014: Somme Drum, Derry Tue, 4 Mar 14 In 1914, the Hamilton Flute Band from Londonderry joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Their bass drum, now housed in St Columb's Cathedral, sounded the beat for the marching soldiers and became a co
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05 March 2014: Drumalis House, Larne Wed, 5 Mar 14 Months before war was declared, Larnes grandly sedate Drumalis House was a centre for gunrunning in Edward Carsons bid to resist Home Rule.
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06 March 2014: Hely's Printers, Dublin Thu, 6 Mar 14 Hely's Printers in Dublin benefited from the booming business of recruitment posters.
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07 March 2014: Conlig Lead Mine, Co. Down Fri, 7 Mar 14 Conlig lead mine near Newtownards was a focal point for local paranoia about German spies.
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02 June 2014: Queens University, Belfast Mon, 2 Jun 14 Alive with youth and optimism today, the grounds of Queens University Belfast once housed a hospital for those injured in body and spirit.
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03 June 2014: Great Northern Railway, Dundalk Tue, 3 Jun 14 In 1913 the Great Northern Railway in Dundalk converted nine carriages into an ambulance train, bringing up to a hundred soldiers at a time to local hospitals.
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Welcome Thu, 19 Dec 13 Welcome to the new Podcast Series for World War One centenary.
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The Great War of Words, Episode 1 Tue, 4 Feb 14 Michael Portillo reveals how our understanding of the war has been distorted through a century of intellectualising, interpretation and misinterpretation. In this first episode Michael Portillo examines
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Woman's Hour: Changing Woman's Lives 05 Feb 14 Thu, 6 Feb 14 From BBC Radio 4: How the war shaped the lives of a generation of women. While women in their thousands volunteered for war service and the number of women employed went up by more than a m
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The Great War of Words, Episode 2 Tue, 11 Feb 14 From BBC Radio 4 Responsibility for the Great War has been a fierce battle for meaning ever since 1914. Michael Portillo examines how the history of the origins of the Great War and the issue of war gu
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Woman's Hour: Campaign for Nurses' War Memorial Mon, 17 Feb 14 From BBC Radio 4: During the First and Second World War at least 1700 nurses gave their lives in service, yet there is no official memorial to them. Jenni Murray talks to Yvonne McEwen, a
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Woman's Hour Women and the War - a young widow's story Mon, 24 Feb 14 How a night out to Manchesters Palace Theatre in 1914 was to change forever the lives of Kitty and her young husband Percy Morter. Looking back, Kitty describes the moment when mus
