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Throughout the history of warfare, technology has changed rapidly. What hasn’t changed are the underlying emotions of the soldiers who must fight those wars. Soldiering On looks at the experiences in battle of two soldiers from the second World War and how their emotions can be seen as a template for soldiers through the ages. |
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This film, shot on location in London and Quebec, investigates the theory that General James Wolfe was sniped at Quebec by one of his own disgruntled men. It is presented by Wolfe’s descendent, journalist Andrew Wolfe-Burroughs. |
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In 2001 Paladin Communications released When the Forest Ran Red: Washington, Braddock and a Doomed Army. This groundbreaking film documentary chronicled the opening days of the French & Indian War, which in turn helped to set America on the road to revolution a generation later. The film has aired in major markets across the United States, earned five national awards, and been sold into secondary school systems and universities from coast to coast. Now Paladin has completed the sequel, George Washington’s First War: The Battles for Fort Duquesne. This 2003 documentary begins where Forest concluded, with the shocking defeat of Gen. Edward Braddock’s “invincible” British army in the Ohio country by a French-Indian allied force from Fort Duquesne. It is left to Braddock’s young aide, George Washington, to lead the retreat from the battlefield. For three years Washington matches wits with an enemy he calls “the most skilled in the world.” Finally the British government launches a new attack against the French stronghold of Fort Duquesne, with George Washington in the lead. Here Washington will face his greatest challenges of all. |
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This is the final and, some would argue, the finest film of Robert and Mary Matzen’s award-winning drama-documentary trilogy on the young Washington. It includes convincing live action sequences, tight direction, and relevant contributions by on-screen historians. Order and more information from Amazon US |
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This 'Director's Cut of the successful 2001 original film incorporates extra footage, and features a new interview with Stephen Brumwell. Order and more information from Amazon US |
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Smallpox is a forgotten enemy to many people now. But throughout the life span of humanity, it’s been an ever present threat. Since around 10,000 years ago, the disease passed from person to person in a chain, blazing a trail of destruction wherever it went. It killed almost one out of every three people it touched. And it marked those who survived with blindness, deformity and terrible scarring - from the horrific rash of fluid-filled pustules which was so typical of smallpox. But, though it may sound like a pestilence from the dark ages, the horrors of smallpox were with us until only a few decades ago. This radio documentary examined the history of human relations with the disease, from early records of epidemics across Europe, through it’s use as a ‘biological weapon’ in the eighteenth century, to the eradication effort of the 1970s that saw the smallpox virus confined to just two research laboratories. Made and broadcast in 1999, Pulling the Plug on Pox asked whether the eradication procedure should be carried through to its ultimate conclusion and the captive virus destroyed – or whether terrorist threats (then only a vague concern) demanded survival of the organism. |
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Howard Leader Programme, BBC Radio Lincolnshire - 45 minute feature broadcast on 13th June 2004.
This edition of the poular book programme was devoted to an interview with Stephen Brumwell, and a discussion of his 'White Devil' |
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