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🗓️ 30 September 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome to another trench chat, and I'm really pleased to welcome back Professor Peter Doyle, |
0:14.9 | a great friend of this podcast who supported it in the early stages when we began broadcasting episodes. |
0:21.6 | And a great friend of mine as well, who I've known for many, many years, geologist, historian, author. |
0:29.6 | He's been on numerous television programs, numerous podcasts, and I've also had the pleasure to work with him on quite a few archaeology projects as well. |
0:38.3 | So welcome back, Peter. Great to see you. |
0:40.3 | Great to be back. Thanks, Paul. |
0:42.3 | So I kind of saw on Twitter that you were delivering a paper at a conference on mine craters on the Somme. |
0:50.3 | And that immediately kind of piqued my interest because this podcast, a big chunk of it, |
0:55.7 | is about landscape and how that fits into the story and understanding of the First World War. |
1:00.8 | So I guess really kind of where did that start for you and I guess we'll discuss where that's led |
1:07.2 | you. |
1:08.1 | Well, I think I think you'll know where it started, Paul. |
1:10.7 | It probably started the same places as it did for you in that anybody that goes to the |
1:15.2 | summer and gets to that huge hole in the ground, the long-regor crater, cannot fail to be impressed, |
1:21.5 | horrified even by the scale of it, by the devastation that it wrought, by the nature of the tussles, the battles, the individual |
1:32.7 | tragedies and successes of the men who got to that point. So that is absolutely a major hole in |
1:39.9 | the ground. And if you've been to look at any craters in other situations i've been to meteor |
1:46.2 | crater in Arizona it's a it's a big hole in the ground it's created by a meteor it's in a fairly |
1:52.4 | dry part of the world and yet it's a big hole in the ground and yet i still couldn't help feeling |
1:57.9 | as i looked into that that it was not as impressive as lochar. So it all started with Loch Nagar and I think there's been a lot of work |
2:06.6 | done on Lock Nagar, a lot of interest with the rise and advent of the use of drones, you know, |
2:13.6 | we're able to see it in all its glory and to try and get some sense of what's going on with it. |
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