Wilfred Owen’s infamously chilling poem, written about a gas attack in WW1, is still a stark reminder of the brutality of war over 100 years later. A small segment of Dulce et Decorum est reads,

“Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,

But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind,

Drunk with fatigue, deaf even to the hoots,

Of gas-shells dropping softly behind”…

Was the physical and mental trauma of such horrors enough to drive a young man to kill when he returned home from war?…

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This episode was researched and written by Rosanna Fitton.

Edited by Joel Porter at Dot Dot Dot Productions.

Illustrations and production direction also by Rosanna Fitton

Narration, script editing, additional audio editing and mixing by Benjamin Fitton.

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The Search by CJ0

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Loaves & Fish by Cody Martin

Fleet Street by Stephen Keech

Gravity by Caleb Etheridge

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Harvester by Wicked Cinema

Infiltration by Wicked Cinema

No Escape by Wicked Cinema

Throughout History by Wicked Cinema

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