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Recent World War I Episodes
- Publication Date | Apr 24, 2024Duration | 00:22:38Publication Date | Apr 24, 2024Duration | 00:22:38In our latest Old Front Line Podcast Questions & Answers Episode we answer four questions from listeners covering subjects like the 'Learning Curve' on the Western Front to how to visit battlefields beyond the ...
- Publication Date | Apr 20, 2024Duration | 00:41:35Publication Date | Apr 20, 2024Duration | 00:41:35We travel to the familiar landscape of Picardy and visit one part of the 'Forgotten Somme' - the battlefields on the Redan Ridge. Here we see look at the fighting on 1st July 1916 and at the end of the battle i...
- Publication Date | Apr 13, 2024Duration | 00:55:19Publication Date | Apr 13, 2024Duration | 00:55:19At the end of the Great War, vast areas of France were left devastated by the fighting: this became the 'Zone Rouge' or the 'Red Zone'. Reconstruction and recovery of ground brought that Red Zone to an end in t...
- Publication Date | Apr 03, 2024Duration | 00:55:10Publication Date | Apr 03, 2024Duration | 00:55:10In 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 army saw itself in the Great War, why the podcast is called ...
- Publication Date | Mar 30, 2024Duration | 00:37:04Publication Date | Mar 30, 2024Duration | 00:37:04We'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 weekend all about, what plans have we got for more of these,...
- Publication Date | Mar 23, 2024Duration | 01:02:20Publication Date | Mar 23, 2024Duration | 01:02:20The 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 'Beyond the Somme' - what does that mean, and what do we fin...
- Publication Date | Mar 16, 2024Duration | 00:41:02Publication Date | Mar 16, 2024Duration | 00:41:02On 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 I see the landscape of the Great War, helped me find a langua...
- Publication Date | Mar 09, 2024Duration | 00:30:50Publication Date | Mar 09, 2024Duration | 00:30:50Railways 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 the battlefield for millions of men during the conflict. What...
- Publication Date | Mar 02, 2024Duration | 00:32:32Publication Date | Mar 02, 2024Duration | 00:32:32In 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, at Fort de Loncin the garrison of 550 men came under murderous...
- Publication Date | Feb 24, 2024Duration | 01:02:20Publication Date | Feb 24, 2024Duration | 01:02:20We 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 Imperial War Museum in London. At Ypres we see an exhibition about ...
