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Podcast Questions & Answers: Episode 1
Season 6 Episode 30
In the first of our new 'your questions answered' episodes we answer six questions sent in by listeners to the podcast covering subjects like how the…
1 year, 9 months ago
Despatches: A Weekend in Ypres
Season 6 Episode 29
We've just had the first ever Old Front Line Podcast Supporter's meet-up on the battlefields of Flanders near the Belgian city of Ypres. What was the…
1 year, 9 months ago
Beyond The Somme
Season 6 Episode 28
The Great War on the Western Front was much more than Flanders and the Somme, and the experience of British and Commonwealth soldiers. When we travel…
1 year, 9 months ago
Four Years of the Old Front Line
Season 6 Episode 27
On our fourth anniversary of launching The Old Front Line, I look back over the episodes and discuss how the podcast has helped shape and define how …
1 year, 9 months ago
Despatches: By Train to Ypres
Season 6 Episode 26
Railways were an essential part of the Great War, and the line which ran from Northern France to Poperinghe and Ypres became the route in and out of …
1 year, 10 months ago
Despatches: Fort de Loncin 1914
Season 6 Episode 25
In August 1914 a force of more than 55,000 German soldiers descended on the Belgian city of Liege. Protected by a belt of steel and concrete forts, a…
1 year, 10 months ago
Exhibiting The Great War
Season 6 Episode 24
We look at two exhibitions in two key institutions that connect us to the history of the Great War: the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres and Imperi…
1 year, 10 months ago
Despatches: Somme Trench Map
Season 6 Episode 23
In this latest episode of Despatches, we examine an original Trench Map from the Battle of the Somme in 1916, showing the battlefield around the vill…
1 year, 10 months ago
WW1 At Home: Shorncliffe Cemetery
Season 6 Episode 22
Returning to the History of the First World War we find on our doorsteps, we visit Shorncliffe in Kent to record an episode onsite. Here during the G…
1 year, 11 months ago
Despatches: War Damage Postcards
Season 6 Episode 21
In this episode we look at so-called 'War Damage Postcards' published during the conflict and which depicts the smashed villages, towns and cities, a…
1 year, 11 months ago