A first-hand account of the signing of the armistice agreement at the end of the First World War was released on podcast today.

Commander Walter Theodore Bagot accompanied the British negotiating team to France in November 1918 as a German interpreter.

Click here to listen to the podcast.

His account starts as the British delegates arrive in France on November 7, to be taken to the Allied supreme commander, Marshal Ferdinand Foch’s train, which was the venue for the talks.

It goes on to cover the intense discussions which culminated in the two sides signing the document at 5am on November 11.

He described the bottle of port and biscuits that were produced following the agreement, and the celebrations on the streets of Paris.

“As soon as the outskirts of Paris had been reached, it was evident that everybody had heard the good news.

“Everybody was buying flags and decorating their houses with them and by lunchtime the people of Paris were marching about arm in arm crying ‘La Victoire! La Victoire!”‘, he wrote.

Born in Chiswick, west London, Commander Bagot joined the Royal Navy in 1900 and spent most of the war with Naval Intelligence.

His report has been made available as an audio clip by The National Archives as part of their season of Voices of the Armistice podcasts.