Welcome to "Not So Quiet On The Western Front," the podcast that takes you beyond the trenches and dives deep into the untold stories and surprising truths of the First World War. Join us as we lift the lid on one of the most pivotal periods in human history, busting myths and unravelling the complexities of a conflict that shaped the course of the 20th century.
Host: Dan Hill & Dr. Spencer Jones
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Episode 150: Spies, Codes & Cables: The Zimmermann Telegram 1917
Episode 150
Monday, October 26, 2026 ⢠Duration 47:52
In January 1917, as war raged across the globe, only one key player remained neutral: Having swayed from pro- to anti-German throughout the course of the war, it was recognised by most that the United States' contribution could be crucial to deciding the war's outcome.
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Episode 149: WW1 Trench Raiding Weapons
Episode 149
Monday, October 19, 2026 ⢠Duration 53:23
Picture a soldier with a trench dagger tucked into his belt and a satchel full of grenades on his shoulder, carrying a spiked club in one hand and a revolver in the other: a man ready for a deadly encounter in the dark. The weapons of trench raiding are among the most unsettling objects left behind by the First World War, and today, we explore how these weapons were used and why the less fearsome equipment could be just as important.
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Episode 148: Courage Without Glory - The British Army in 1915
Episode 148
Monday, October 12, 2026 ⢠Duration 54:55
What happens when an army built for a short war finds itself fighting in a long one? In 1915, the British Army found out, and learned the answer the hard way. Short of guns, short of shells, and up against defences that no one had previously seen, the Army would experience a year of courage without glory.
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In this episode, a continuation of our Germany at War series, we take a deep dive into the fighting on the Western Front throughout the crucial year of 1915. From poison gas and pillboxes to elastic defence, we explore the tactics, technology, and brutal realities of the war and much more in this weekâs episode.
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Episode 146: The Great Escapes of Charles de Gaulle
Episode 146
Monday, September 28, 2026 ⢠Duration 59:02
Charles de Gaulle was wounded and captured at Verdun in March 1916, but this marked the beginning of a new phase of his First World War. Over the next two and a half years, he would dedicate himself to escaping captivity and rejoining the fight. This is the story of how the future president of France became one of the most notorious escape artists of the First World War.
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Episode 145: Charles de Gaulle in WWI: From Academy to Verdun
Episode 145
Monday, September 21, 2026 ⢠Duration 56:33
It is difficult to imagine Charles de Gaulle as a young man before the kĂŠpi, the presidency, and his famous silhouette. But in August 1914, he was a 23-year-old lieutenant about to be wounded and tested in the inferno of combat. Ultimately captured in the brutal fighting at Verdun, he would do all in his power to escape from captivity in Germany.
This is the story of Charles de Gaulle's First World War.
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Episode 144: Who Won the Battle of the Somme
Episode 144
Monday, September 14, 2026 ⢠Duration 52:06
1917 British patrols walked into Serre without firing a shot. The Germans had gone - withdrawn back to the Hindenburg Line, abandoning ground over which some one million men had been killed and wounded. Four months after the Battle of the Somme officially ended, the British were left masters of the field - but it was a field of shell holes, ruins and unburied corpses. Were they the victors? In this episode, we ask: Who really won the Battle of the Somme?
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Episode 143: The Ancre: The Final Major Battle of the Somme
Episode 143
Monday, September 7, 2026 ⢠Duration 59:06
On 13th of November 1916 the British Army attacked at Beaumont Hamel, Serre and Beaucourt - the ground of the first morning of the Somme. Four and a half months after the catastrophe of the first of July, the last battle of the campaign was fought across the same fields, still littered with the fallen from weeks earlier. What happened at the Battle of the Ancre - the final major battle of the Somme campaign - and why does it remain controversial?
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Episode 142: French Army on the Somme
Episode 142
Monday, August 31, 2026 ⢠Duration 50:34
Today in popular memory the Battle of the Somme is often seen as titanic struggle fought between Britain and her vast Empire an the military might of the German War Machine. But, whatâs far too often overlooked, and the subject of todayâs episode is the contribution of the French Army who fought tenaciously from the very first to the very last shots of the battle.
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Episode 141: Thiepval 1916: Storming the Impossible Ridge
Episode 141
Monday, August 24, 2026 ⢠Duration 55:59
By late September 1916, the British Army stood ready to attempt something it had failed to do on the war's bloodiest day: capture Thiepval. Once a village, now a fortified maze of underground cellars and interlinking tunnels, the position had repelled the 36th Ulster Division on 1 July and become a symbol of German resistance ever since. Two and a half months on, a very different British Army launched its assault at 12:35pm in broad daylight, now backed by concentrated artillery, dedicated counter-battery fire, and lessons paid for in blood. Was this the moment the British Army finally proved it had learned to fight the Somme, or would Thiepval's fall come at too high a cost to feel like victory at all?
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