Questions and Answers Episode 60
In this episode of The Old Front Line Podcast, we answer another fascinating selection of listener questions that explore the realities of l...
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Walk the battlefields of the First World War with Military Historian, Paul Reed. In these podcasts, Paul brings together over 35 years of studying the Great War, from the stories of veterans...
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Somme: Mighty Thiepval
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing is the largest British war memorial in the world and one of the most powerful places where we remember...
Questions and Answers Episode 59
In this latest Old Front Line Q&A, we tackle four fascinating questions that take us from the opening moments of the Battle of the Somme to...
The Great War Around Us
We begin Season 10 of The Old Front Line with a journey into The Great War Around Us: the First World War history that can still be found in...
Bonus Episode: A Roll of Honour
For our final Bonus Episode before Season 10 begins in September, we look at a rare Roll of Honour for the Gravesend and Dartford area of Ke...
Bonus Episode: Mapping The Old Front Line
How do you find the hidden story of the First World War landscape? In this special bonus episode of The Old Front Line, we explore the fasci...
Questions and Answers Episode 58
In this episode of the Old Front Line Podcast, we answer another fascinating collection of listener questions that explore the people, place...
Somme: The Dawn Attack
In this episode of the Old Front Line Podcast, we explore one of the most successful British attacks of the Battle of the Somme: the Dawn At...
Questions and Answers Episode 57
In this Questions and Answers episode we head beneath the battlefields to explore the hidden world of First World War dugouts and bunkers, a...
Old Front Line 300th Episode
For our 300th Episode we reflect on six years of the Old Front Line Podcast and go back to where we started in March 2020 by retaking a virt...
Questions and Answers Episode 56
In this episode of the Old Front Line Podcast, we answer another fascinating selection of listener questions covering some of the most intri...
Somme South: Mametz to Montauban
In this episode of the Old Front Line Podcast, we continue our exploration of the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 1916 by examining the sout...
Somme Central: Ovillers to Fricourt
On the morning of 1st July 1916, as whistles blew along miles of the Somme front, the men of the III Corps and XV Corps rose from their tren...
Questions and Answers Episode 55
In this latest Questions & Answers episode of the Old Front Line podcast, we tackle another fascinating collection of listener questions tha...
Somme North: Serre to Thiepval
In the first of a three-part series marking the 110th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, we explore the fighting in the northern sector...
Questions and Answers Episode 54
For this episode of the Old Front Line podcast, we open the virtual mailbag once again for another Questions & Answers special covering some...
Thunder in the Mountains with Tom Isitt
In this special edition of the podcast we explore a lesser-known theatre of conflict from the First World War in Northern Italy with histori...
Questions and Answers Episode 53
In this wide-ranging listener Q&A episode of Old Front Line, we dive into some intriguing and human questions thrown up by the Great War. We...
St Eloi Craters 1916
Step into one of the most chaotic and little-known battles of the First World War in 1916 with this episode of The Old Front Line, as we exp...
Questions and Answers Episode 52
Step back from the battlefield and into the questions that bring the Great War to life in this special Q&A episode. Drawing on years of batt...