Tracey Emin
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534 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 10 Jan
Tracey Emin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And when we got in close to the shore, we looked down in the clear water and you could see all your friends lying on the bottom of the sea.
We were all issued with a double ration of ammunition and of course if you got into the sea with a rifle and a double ration of ammunition you were so heavy you went straight to the bottom.
My cousin was wounded in the first day of the landing.
He was dumped on the deck of a cargo boat and he went septic.
He very nearly died.
He finished up having lost an arm and a stiff leg simply through neglect.
There were only two hospital ships for the landing.
The medical part of the show was really about as bad as it could be.
Anyway, I was on the beach the first time.
I was really under fire.
And it was just like a shower of rain coming into the sea.
Somehow it didn't frighten me.
I don't know why.
In fact, by the time Westy got ashore, the attack was already a catastrophic failure.
Gallipoli was an attempt by Britain and its allies to open up a second front in World War I by launching a surprise offensive against Germany's ally, the Turks.
Professor Carl Bridge of King's College London.
So the situation after the first couple of days is that the Australians and New Zealanders and the Allied forces have got a toehold in Gallipoli, but no more than that.
What were the conditions like?
We crawled on to Quinn's Post, which was a ghastly spot.
Hot, barren, and all sorts of holes and trenches.
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