Programme notes
"Even at the age of 94, he would wake up howling like a wounded animal." This week we received hundreds of comments on Eddie's blog, where you shared the stories of relatives killed during the Great War and your memories of those who came home. Read them here.
We could have filled a whole morning if we had tried to broadcast all of the great accounts we read. For the show we decided to concentrate on the men who returned from the front with physical and psychological scars. Should we have come at the story from another angle?
If you listen to the programme on the radio at 5.45am, we posed a simple question: Why? Early birds answered in droves (or flocks). Listeners were wide awake, we heard, because of work worries, money troubles, sick relatives, noisy neighbours and mating foxes. Would you like to hear more stories about iPM's dawn patrollers? Is there something going on at 5.45am we should cover?
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