ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the transcript of four interviews with Eric Bogle, shot at four different locations and in response to the words and images contained in each of the four verses of 'No Man's Land'. The first was in Authuille Cemetary within metres of Willie McBride's grave; the second at the Thiepval Memorial, festooned with old black and white photographs left over from the 100th anniversary ceremony. The third at the AIF Burial Ground at Grass Lane, emotively and symbolically isolated by a wall that locks the past into the past and prevents the return to peace in the present. Finally at Gueudecourt, Picardy when there was time to reflect on the sentiments embedded in verse four. Bogle has gone to great lengths to emphasise that he did not sit down beside the grave of 'Willie McBride' in 1975 in order to write the song.
