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Minds at War - Der Krieg Tue, 8 Jul 14 In 1924, six years after the end of hostiliies, the painter Otto Dix, who had been a machine-gunner in the German Army, produced his 51 Der Krieg prints. Gruesome, hallucinatory, and terribly frank, these postca
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Minds at War - The Memorandum on the Neglect of Science Wed, 9 Jul 14 Professor David Edgerton reflects on a WW1 clarion-call from the British scientific establishment. In a letter to The Times in 1916, many of the great names of British science decl
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Minds at War - Thoughts for the Times on War and Death Mon, 14 Jul 14 The declaration of war in 1914 was initially met with jubilation by the people of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and, in Vienna, Sigmund Freud shared their mood. But, like his fellow-
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Minds at War - Le Feu Tue, 15 Jul 14 Completed in 1916, Le Feu was the first explicit account of conditions at the front. French soldier Henri Barbusse's novel proved a revelation to a French public sold a sentimental line by the press of the time. Y
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Minds at War - Battleship Potemkin Wed, 16 Jul 14 For Russians of director Sergei Eisenstein's generation, the experience of the First World War was overtaken by the revolution of 1917, which took Russia out of the war and plunged it into a bitter ci
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Minds at War - Fighting France Thu, 17 Jul 14 BBC Correspondent Lyse Doucet introduces novelist Edith Wharton's reportage from wartime France. Wharton, best known for The Age Of Innocence and The House of Mirth, was granted unique access to the Weste
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Minds at War - The Broken Wing Fri, 18 Jul 14 Santanu Das discusses Indian poet Sarojini Naidu's 1917 collection The Broken Wing. Born in Hyderabad in 1879, Naidu became known as the Nightingale of India for her work as a poet and also as an Indian i
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Minds at War - The Grieving Parents Sat, 19 Jul 14 Poet Ruth Padel reflects on German artist Kathe Kollwitz's memorial for her son, who died on the battlefields of the First World War in October 1914. The German painter, printmaker and sculptor creat
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How Britain Went to War Mon, 28 Jul 14 Leading Whitehall historian Peter Hennessy examines Britain's secret war planning and preparations before 1914. Drawing on official papers, sound archive, and interviews with historians, Hennessy discusses what
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WW1 At Home 13 - Sikh Soldiers Pilot Heroes Sun, 3 Aug 14 The valiant Sikh contribution, the drama of those first training flights above the meadows of Oxfordshire, and a bittersweet story of two families brought together by love and loss.
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Women's lives on the Home Front Mon, 4 Aug 14 Woman's Hour goes behind the scenes at new Radio 4 drama Home Front, as it begins its four-year run. Actor Harriet Walter talks about her cameo role as Emmeline Pankhurst, and we hear from the writers abo
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Veterans: From WW1 to Afghanistan Tue, 5 Aug 14 Radio 1's Greg James hears from British troops who served in Afghanistan as they contrast their experiences with those who fought in World War One. Mixing new interviews from Afghanistan veterans with a
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Heroes at War: Walter Tull Tue, 12 Aug 14 Ex-Northampton Town player Clarke Carlisle tells the story of Walter Tull, the first Afro-Caribbean outfield player in the top division of English football, and the first to be commissioned as an infantry off
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Heroes at War: Frederick Kelly Wed, 13 Aug 14 Two time Olympic gold medalist Steve Williams tells the story of Frederick Clegg Kelly, Olympic rowing champion and one of Britain's leading composers, who lost his life on the battlefield in WW1.
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Episode 1 - Forgotten Heroes, The Indian Army in the Great War Wed, 20 Aug 14 Sarfraz Manzoor tells the story of the 1.27m men from the Indian Army who fought valiantly in the Great War, through a series of the soldiers' letters written home from Wes
