“The Somme: Secret Tunnel Wars” BBC Four, 9pm Monday 20 May 2013”

[J Banning]

For those of you whose interest was piqued by the programme and are on the Somme in the next two weeks please be advised we are working on site from 28 June - 15 July. See http://www.laboisselleproject.com/access-open-days/ for details.

JB

[BelgianExile]

Jeremy - does that include weekends (and if so what sort of times is the site open)? I'm in Arras next weekend but would love to come down to have a look.

Thanks.

[J Banning]

Yes, I have amended the webpage to give extra details as to times and weekend opening.

Best wishes,

Jeremy

[BelgianExile]

Fantastic - see you then.

[sjustice]

She Who Must Be Obeyed and I will be with you on Sunday 30th June

Cheers,

Simon

[Seadog]

Jeremy, I take it that no human remains have been found on or under the site yet.

Norman

[KIRKY]

Norman, check their news section re 2 french soldiers found.

Tony

[Seadog]

Thanks

[J Banning]

Not sure if this is the best thread to add this information to but thought GWF members may want to know. We (LBSG) have kindly been given a place on an upcoming Leger battlefield tour 'The Underground War - Tunnellers on the Western Front'. This four day tour worth more than £350 departs 31 October 2013 and will be guided by LBSG and GWF member Iain McHenry. In order to raise funds for ongoing work we are auctioning this on EBay. Details here: http://www.laboisselleproject.com/2013/09/30/battlefield-tour-the-underground-war-tunnellers-on-the-western-front/

The EBay link to the auction which expires on the evening of 7 October is here: 'The Underground War - Tunnellers on the Western Front'

Best wishes,

Jeremy

[keithmroberts]

For anyone who missed it, this great programme, entirely snow free is being shown again this evening. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01skvnh

Keith

[Coldstreamer]

thanks - sky has been set to record

[SilverFox100]

Thanks missed it first time around have set recorder. Mike

[Bart150]

Agreed, it was a good programme and better than the majority of BBC programmes about WW1.

Even so, I felt a bit dissatisfied that it didn’t properly tackle a couple of basic questions:

Why out of all the places on the British-held Western Front did they choose La Boisselle?

Was it reasonable to expect that the advantages to be gained from the mining project would outweigh the enormous costs?

I’m not particularly requesting people to answer those two questions now. I’m just putting forward the opinion that the programme would have been an even better one if it had done so.

[Special Artist]

Just to let you all know, this has now been released on DVD, and I have just bought it, but it seemed a little shorter than I remembered. Lo and behold, it is a full ten minutes shorter than the original, and seems to have been severely edited. I can understand the TV version being whittled down to fit a slot, but why butcher the dvd release?

[J Banning]

Sorry to resurrect this thread but I have just heard from the producer that this programme will be shown again at 10pm on Thursday 2 November on BBC Four: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01skvnh.

Just in case you missed it first, second and third time round. 

Cheers

Jeremy

 

Edited 31 October , 2017 by J Banning

[NigelS]

Repeated again tonight (1st November 2018) at 11.30pm on BBC4 (see https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/208712-the-machine-gun-skyes-band-of-brothers/?do=findComment&comment=2698887 for other Great War offerings also on BBC4 tonight)

 

NigelS