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  1. Visions of World War One on Ö÷²¥´óÐã One Wales

    Kim Howells

    Presenter, Visions of World War One

    Visions of World War One on Ö÷²¥´óÐã One Wales

    Former MP Kim Howells is presenting Visions of World War One on Ö÷²¥´óÐã One Wales tonight (Monday 11 July) the programme considers how Welsh artists portrayed World War One, from the morale raising prints of 1914 to the poignant memorials that still stand in towns and villages across Wales.

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  2. The centenary of Hartlepool Bombardment – how we covered the stories of 100 years ago

    Dan Thorpe

    Editor, Ö÷²¥´óÐã Tees

    The centenary of Hartlepool Bombardment – how we covered the stories of 100 years ago

    Dan Thorpe gives an insight into how Ö÷²¥´óÐã Tees worked with the community to commemorate the centenary of the Hartlepool Bombardment

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  3. Tunics for Goalposts: Football on the front line in WW1

    Mike Ingham

    Presenter, 5 live

    Mike Ingham reveals how his 5 live special investigating the Christmas truce led to a much wider brief, paying tribute to the footballers who lost their lives in the First World War.

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  4. Footballers United: Online WW1 drama

    Tim Plyming

    Executive Producer

    Today sees the launch of our second online drama pilot for iWonder as part of the Ö÷²¥´óÐã’s World One Season, called Footballers United.

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  5. The face of World War I

    David Holdsworth

    Controller of English Regions

    David Holdsworth, Controller, Ö÷²¥´óÐã English Regions, shares the background to a giant mosaic unveiled outside Broadcasting House last week ahead of Remembrance Sunday.

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  6. Building understanding about the conflict which gave birth to modern remembrance

    Adrian Van Klaveren

    Controller, World War One Centenary

    Adrian Van Klaveren outlines the Ö÷²¥´óÐã's remembrance programming and considers the Ö÷²¥´óÐã's role in remembrance more broadly as we commemorate 100 years since the Great War.

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  7. A summer with the World War One at Ö÷²¥´óÐã tour

    Moray London

    Executive Producer, Ö÷²¥´óÐã London

    Last weekend the Ö÷²¥´óÐã’s World War One at Ö÷²¥´óÐã tour came to end in the Midlands with some 20,000 people attending Ö÷²¥´óÐã Learning’s flagship event held in the centre of Nottingham, working alongside the City Council and their Fields of Battle exhibition. A further 6000 people attended the final events of the summer in Derby. Executive Producer Moray London looks back on the tour. 

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  8. Our World War gets interactive

    Tim Plyming

    Executive Producer

    Tim Plyming introduces an exciting new interactive pilot to tie in with major new Ö÷²¥´óÐã Three drama Our World War, which seeks to answer the question: "What would it have felt like to have fought in WW1?"

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  9. Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio Lincolnshire's local WW1 drama: Leaving Ö÷²¥´óÐã

    Michael Hortin

    Senior Broadcast Journalist

    Ö÷²¥´óÐã Radio Lincolnshire is marking the centenary of the outbreak of World War One with a special series of performances dramatising the life of a local family.

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  10. August 4th World War One Remembered on the Ö÷²¥´óÐã

    Adrian Van Klaveren

    Controller, World War One Centenary

    Adrian Van-Klaveren introduces programming commemorating the centenary of the start of World War One.

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