World War One – Part 3: 1915 – Stalemate, Gas, and a Global War In Part Three of our World War One series, we move into 1915 — the year the war stopped being a war of movement and became a brutal, grinding stalemate. With trench lines stretching from the North Sea to Switzerland, soldiers on the Western Front faced mud, machine guns, and a terrifying new weapon: poison gas. We break down the Second Battle of Ypres, where chlorine gas was unleashed for the first time on a large scale, and expl...
9 Feb 2026
World War 1 part 2 1914
In Part 2 of our First World War series, we dive into the opening year of the conflict — 1914. After the long-term causes set the stage and an assassination lit the fuse in Part 1, this episode follows how Europe’s great powers mobilised for war, how armies clashed in the first battles, and how the hope for a short conflict quickly faded into a much larger and bloodier reality. From the German invasion of Belgium to the early battles on the Western and Eastern Fronts, we break down the ...
26 Jan 2026
World War 1 Part 1 the causes
This is the first episode in a multipart series on the First World War. Over the next few episodes, we’ll be following the war from its origins, through the fighting itself, and finally to its world-changing consequences. But before the trenches, before the battles, and before the millions of casualties, we need to ask a simple question: Why did World War One happen at all? In this episode, we’re looking at the long-term causes that pushed Europe towards war — rising nationalism, imperial riv...
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