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The Old Front Line

By: Paul Reed
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  • Walk the battlefields of the First World War with Military Historian, Paul Reed. In these podcasts, Paul brings together over 40 years of studying the Great War, from the stories of veterans he interviewed, to when he spent more than a decade living on the Old Front Line in the heart of the Somme battlefields.

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Episodes
  • Etaples to Arras: A Journey
    Apr 27 2024

    In a special edition of the podcast which marks the end of Season 6, this episode was recorded on The Old Front Line where we take a journey from the vast Etaples Military Cemetery, look at the Tank Gunnery School at Merriment, Douglas Haig and 'GHQ' at Montreuil, and then travel via a small village up to Arras and the Arras Memorial.

    Season 6 will continue with two more Question & Answers episodes and then after a short break the Podcast will return in early May.

    Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop your question into the Old Front Line Discord Server or email the podcast.

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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Podcast Questions & Answers Ep 2
    Apr 24 2024

    In 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 Somme.

    The Naval Flank of the Western Front project I mentioned was this one: Forgotten Wrecks of the First World War.

    Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop your question into the Old Front Line Discord Server or email the podcast.

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    23 mins
  • Despatches: Somme - Redan Ridge
    Apr 20 2024

    We 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 in November 1916, examine the story of a soldier 'Shot at Dawn' and discuss the writer H.H. Munro ('Saki') who fell here during the Battle of the Somme.

    Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop your question into the Old Front Line Discord Server or email the podcast.

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    42 mins

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