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A century since the Armistice, World War I looms larger than ever in the UK's cultural and historical imaginary. Known first as 'the Great War' and then 'the war to end all wars', it was fought in new ways with new technologies, with unprecedented psychological effects on its participants, and this led writers and artists - many of whom were combatants - to find new forms to describe it. This week, Juliet talks to Charlotte Jones (King's College London) about how the war has been represented from 1914 to the present, especially in poetry, memoir and literature, and why portrayals in film and TV cause so much anxiety for those who insist it be remembered as a heroic sacrifice rather than a senseless waste. SELECTED REFERENCES LAURENCE BINYON, 'For the Fallen' (1914) - https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57322/for-the-fallen Blackadder Goes Forth (TV series, 1989) - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/06/blackadder-michael-gove-historians-first-world-war Blast (journal, 1914-15) - https://spikemagaz