Voices of the Great War

[Steve J]

Just caught up with this which is some of the interviews from the landmark The Great War series from the 1960's. Sobering watching but gripping at the same time. Highly recommended.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03y76xl/I_Was_There_The_Great_War_Interviews/

[Bernie]

It was excellent - many of them spoke with a quiet dignity

The most moving was the lass who lost her boyfriend during the war yet still so fresh half a century later

[burnaby64]

Thanks for the link. I remember when the BBC series came out, being 15 at the time of the fiftieth anniversary of the outbreak of the Great War. Our history teacher suggested we ask surviving grandfathers about their experiences and I got nothing at all from mine (one had been a machine-gunner in the tanks and the other had enlisted in the Royal Scots in the week of his 16th birthday---something I only found out last year from enlistment records in the archives of the local paper): both found it too hard to talk about, I imagine, and that makes you all the more grateful for those who found the courage to speak so movingly and with such dignity in this programme.

[Techno]

Are these the tapes from Forgotten Voices of the Great War ?
Got those on disc as 'freebies' from one of the papers about a year ago......They're very good...and thought provoking.
Cheers - Phil