A sugestão desta semana é "Cavalo de Guerra" de Michael Morpurgo.

LER É O MELHOR REMEDIO

Join the COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION (CWGC) team for 48 hours in IEPER, exploring some of the famous as well as lesser known cemeteries and memorials, and discovering the history behind them.

CONTRIBUTORS
Simon Bendry | Head of Education & Engagement, CWGC
Megan Maltby | Public Engagement Manager, CWGC
Lynelle Howson | Historian, CWGC 

MUSIC | The Last Post, recorded on location in Ieper during the daily Last Post Ceremony.

IMAGE | Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial to the Missing - ©Jan D'Hondt, Ateljé D

WITNESSES IN THE LANDSCAPE is a collaboration between the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Visit Flanders, Westtoer and Westhoek Regional Tourist Board.

PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio (https://chromemedia.co.uk/) for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission | Producer & scriptwriter - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp

FURTHER INFORMATION
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) | https://www.cwgc.org/
CWGC UNESCO World Heritage Sites | https://rb.gy/6oi4se
Commonwealth War Graves Foundation - Keeping their stories alive | https://foundation.cwgc.org/
Visit Flanders | https://rb.gy/kv0tul
Westtoer - Build Your Own Flanders Pilgrimage | https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/westtoer-build-your-own-flanders-pilgrimage/
Westhoek Regional Tourist Board - Discover Flanders Fields | https://www.toerismewesthoek.be/en
In Flanders Field Museum | https://www.inflandersfields.be/en

The Last Post

WITNESSES IN THE LANDSCAPE 02 | 48 HOURS IN IEPER

Students Harry and Livvy are going on a school trip to Belgium to visit some of the First World War cemeteries around Ieper.  In WHAT'S IN A NAME, they find out how some of the cemeteries and memorials acquired their names, and discover how many of their family were involved in the fighting around Ypres, as it was then called.

CAST 
MOTHER - Jilly Bond https://www.jillybond.co.uk/
LIVVY - Olivia Bendry
HARRY - Harry Martin

READINGS | In Flanders Fields, John McCrae; Scenes at the Arch, James Dunn for The Daily Mail, 1927 

MUSIC | The Last Post, recorded on location in Ieper during the daily Last Post Ceremony - ChromeRadio | Pack up your Troubles in an Old Kit Bag and Smile, Smile, Smile by George & Felix Powell - Performed by Jessica Walker, with James Holmes on piano -  ℗ChromeRadio | Keep the Home Fires Burning by Ivor Novello - James Holmes (piano) - ℗ChromeRadio | The Flowers of the Forest - The Battle of Somme - Performed by Queen's Royal Pipers - Licensed courtesy of ARC Music.

BATTLEFIELD SOUNDSCAPE: authentic First World War munitions recorded by ℗Jonathan Ruffle (https://www.gbfilms.com/)

IMAGE | Perth Cemetery (China Wall) - ©Jan D'Hondt, Ateljé D

WITNESSES IN THE LANDSCAPE is a collaboration between the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Visit Flanders, Westtoer and Westhoek Regional Tourist Board.

PRODUCTION | ChromeRadio (https://chromemedia.co.uk/) for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission | Producer & scriptwriter - Catriona Oliphant | Post-production & sound design - Catriona Oliphant & Chris Sharp

FURTHER INFORMATION
Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) | https://www.cwgc.org/
CWGC UNESCO World Heritage Sites | https://rb.gy/6oi4se
Commonwealth War Graves Foundation - Keeping their stories alive | https://foundation.cwgc.org/
Visit Flanders | https://rb.gy/kv0tul
Westtoer - Build Your Own Flanders Pilgrimage | https://www.cwgc.org/visit-us/westtoer-build-your-own-flanders-pilgrimage/
Westhoek Regional Tourist Board - Discover Flanders Fields | https://www.toerismewesthoek.be/en
In Flanders Field Museum | https://www.inflandersfields.be/en

The Last Post; Pack up your Troubles in an Old Kit Bag; Keep the Home Fires Burning; The Flowers of the Forest

WITNESSES IN THE LANDSCAPE 01 | WHAT'S IN A NAME?

We honour and care for the 1.7 million men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First and Second World Wars, ensuring they will never be forgotten. Funded by six Member Governments, our work began with building, and now maintaining, cemeteries at 23,000 locations all over the world.

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