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Despatches: Tales of Tyne Cot
Season 6 Episode 17
In our first podcast of 2024 we return to Flanders to look at some of the history behind the original burials at Tyne Cot Cemetery near Ypres, the la…
2 years, 1 month ago
Despatches: Christmas on the Somme
Season 6 Episode 16
In this special episode of Despatches we look at two Christmases on the Somme: 1915 and 1916. We do this through the experience of men from southern …
2 years, 2 months ago
Despatches: Battlefield Pilgrimages
Season 6 Episode 16
In this latest edition of Despatches we look at the phenomena of Battlefield Pilgrimages which began almost as soon as the Great War ended and contin…
2 years, 2 months ago
Somme: Schwaben Redoubt
Season 6 Episode 15
In our final main episode of 2023 we travel to the Somme battlefields and visit one of the most iconic parts of the 1916 landscape - the fields where…
2 years, 2 months ago
Despatches: Cemetery in the Sand Dunes
Season 6 Episode 14
Despatches goes on the road, and this episode was recorded on location in Flanders. We visit Coxyde Military Cemetery, a British and Commonwealth cem…
2 years, 2 months ago
Flanders: The CCS Cemeteries
Season 6 Episode 13
Bandaghem, Dozinghem and Mendinghem were three made-up names for British Casualty Clearing Stations locations in Flanders, reflecting their use for t…
2 years, 2 months ago
Despatches: WW1 Trench Museums
Season 6 Episode 12
In this latest episode of Despatches we think about First World War Trench Museums: a battlefield phenomena from the 1920s when thousands of 'pilgrim…
2 years, 2 months ago
Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery
Season 6 Episode 11
The Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery is the largest US War Cemetery in Europe with over 14,000 graves. We walk the battlefields here from Cunel to the…
2 years, 2 months ago
Despatches: The Butte de Warlencourt
Season 6 Episode 10
Welcome to Despatches, a new short-form podcast from The Old Front Line. These new shorter Pods will look at some specific aspects of the Great War a…
2 years, 3 months ago
War at Sea: HMS India
Season 6 Episode 9
In this episode we look at the War at Sea in the Great War for the first time and are joined by historian Rebecca Clarke to discuss her book on the f…
2 years, 3 months ago