Chalke Talk

The podcast from the Chalke Valley History Festival
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141. THE WIPERS TIMES

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The Wipers Times was a newspaper for the troops that was written, edited and printed under extraordinary circumstances by a small group of British soldiers during the First World War. Wry, irreverent and topical, it was, in many ways, a precursor to Private Eye, of which Ian has been editor for many years. Here he discusses this brilliant life-enhancing wartime publication and the men who created it.



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