In this episode, we celebrate the 31st anniversary of Cake's debut album, 'Motorcade of Generosity,' with lead singer John McCrae. Motorcade introduced the worl ...

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row.' In 1915, Lt-Col John McCrae, a Canadian army surgeon working in the field in France in the First World War, wrote his famously ...

It all began with Walther Nernst, a German chemist. He was born in 1864 in Poland, which was part of Prussia at the time. Nernst was a smart boy, mechanically minded – the type who always ...

English Canadian men eagerly to sign up. John McCrae had just graduated from medical school but was preoccupied with thoughts of the distant battle. "Ever since this business began," he wrote to ...

In Flanders Field is a famous poem. Written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae. John McCrae was a Canadian field surgeon. He wrote the poem after his friend was killed in battle. He wrote a famous ...

The significance of the poppy as a lasting memorial symbol to the fallen was realised by the Canadian surgeon John McCrae in his poem In Flanders Fields. The poppy came to represent the ...

Fascinating story of woman who made Remembrance Day Poppy Appeal the ­force it is ...