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The Old Front Line
Paul Reed
Frequency: 1 episode/8d. Total Eps: 249
Walk the battlefields of the First World War with Military Historian, Paul Reed. In these podcasts, Paul brings together over 40 years of studying the Great War, from the stories of veterans he interviewed, to when he spent more than a decade living on the Old Front Line in the heart of the Somme battlefields.
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Podcast Summer Special
Season 7 · Episode 14
samedi 17 août 2024 • Duration 01:04:40
In a special summer edition of the podcast before it returns properly in September, we walk the battlefields near Passchendaele and have an extended Question and Answer session.
Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop your question into the Old Front Line Discord Server or email the podcast.
Podcast Questions & Answers Ep 10
Season 7 · Episode 13
samedi 27 juillet 2024 • Duration 33:14
In our tenth QnA Episode we look at subjects from Canada's Hundred Days in 1918 to the Missing of the Great War, ask how to begun studying the First World War given all that is available now, and discuss how sickness was as much of a problem to soldiers on the battlefield as wounds from shot and shell.
John Livesay - link to a copy of Canada's Hundred's Days on the Internet Archive.
Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop your question into the Old Front Line Discord Server or email the podcast.
The War Underground
Season 7 · Episode 4
samedi 1 juin 2024 • Duration 01:03:12
The War Underground in many ways defined the static nature of the First World War on the Western Front. We examine the history of military mining, discover Sir John Norton Griffiths and his attempt to recruit 10,000 "moles" to work beneath No Man's Land, and examine the pinnacle of mine warfare at Messines in 1917.
Simon Jones' website: Myths of Messines
Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop your question into the Old Front Line Discord Server or email the podcast.
Ypres In A Day
Season 3 · Episode 27
samedi 12 mars 2022 • Duration 59:14
In this episode, the first in a series of Battlefields in a Day, we explore one of the iconic British and Commonwealth battlefields of the Great War: Ypres, in Flanders. On our tour we take in some well known and famous locations, and travel off the beaten track, too.
Walking Arras: Feuchy Chapel
Season 3 · Episode 26
samedi 5 mars 2022 • Duration 56:56
Astride the Arras-Cambrai road a small wayside memorial commemorates a missing British officer. Out in the fields small Comrade's Cemeteries act like beacons to the fighting here in April 1917. What took place on this ground around Arras, near to Feuchy Chapel?
Walking Ypres: Brandhoek
Season 3 · Episode 25
samedi 26 février 2022 • Duration 01:03:21
Just astride the road between Poperinghe and Ypres, the hamlet of Brandhoek was a main site for the treatment of wounded soldiers. Here women serving as Army nurses got close to the realities of war, and the war cemeteries here today remind us that not everyone could be saved.
The Bantams of Bourlon Wood
Season 3 · Episode 24
samedi 19 février 2022 • Duration 56:19
Among the dark Oak trees of Bourlon Wood, the Bantam Battalions from England, Scotland and Wales experienced their baptism of fire. Who were The Bantams, and did all roads lead to Bourlon Wood in November 1917?
100th Episode: Across The Old Front Line
Season 3 · Episode 23
samedi 12 février 2022 • Duration 01:03:37
To commemorate one hundred episodes of the podcast we take a journey along the Western Front visiting four locations from Flanders to the Somme to Verdun to the Vosges. What does the landscape of the Great War mean to us?
Henry Williamson's War
Season 3 · Episode 22
samedi 5 février 2022 • Duration 01:03:51
In this episode we look at the writer Henry Williamson, best known for his nature writing and Tarka The Otter novel, but in the 1950s he began to publish 'A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight', some fifteen novels, five of which cover the Great War. We look at his life, his war, and his work as a writer, a forgotten author of the First World War.
The Henry Williamson Society website.
Aisne: The Old Contemptibles at Soupir
Season 3 · Episode 21
samedi 29 janvier 2022 • Duration 53:47
We visit the small village of Soupir on the Aisne where men of the British Expeditionary Force, known as The Old Contemptibles, fought in September 1914. We visit the British graves here and walk the battlefield to the Aisne heights where some of the first trenches were dug in the Great War.
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