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Programme Four - YPRES

The rolling countryside of Northern Belgium has a secret. Beneath the farmlands lie graveyards, the final resting place of the fallen of the First World War.

Here, a group of archaeologists, forensic experts and historians excavate the past, a shovelful at a time, to preserve the memories of the shattered lives that ended here.

In the autumn of 1914 the Belgian farmland was a hotbed of fighting. The Allies were desperate to control the land between the Western Front and the French coast, to keep the Germans away from the English Channel. It was a battle to control the high ground, the Northern Belgian town of Ypres.

At Ypres, the team discover evidence of the first trenches of The Great War—mere scrapes of earth that would evolve into complex and sinewy lines of trenches that if placed in a single line would encircle the Earth.

In the process, the team unearths human remains. With the help of a forensic anthropologist and a button from a uniform, the team concludes that they have discovered the partial remains of three German soldiers from the 213 Reserve Regiment, who fought and died at Ypres which saw the birth of WW1trench warfare.

Retracing on foot and by train the very steps these soldiers took in the Autumn of 1914 from training camp to the Front, members of the team uncover a massacre of civilians in a small Belgian town. Their journey takes them back to Ypres, to the very place these soldiers died—victimizers turned victims.

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