The Old Front Line
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 (290)
Podcast Questions & Answers Ep 4
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Podcast Questions & Answers Ep 3
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Etaples to Arras: A Journey
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Podcast Questions & Answers Ep 2
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Despatches: Somme - Redan Ridge
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Aftermath: The Myth of the Red Zone
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Podcast Questions & Answers: Episode 1
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Despatches: A Weekend in Ypres
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Beyond The Somme
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Four Years of the Old Front Line
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Despatches: By Train to Ypres
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Despatches: Fort de Loncin 1914
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Exhibiting The Great War
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Despatches: Somme Trench Map
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WW1 At Home: Shorncliffe Cemetery
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Despatches: War Damage Postcards
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Despatches: Wings Over Flanders
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The Dead Man's Penny
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Letters From The Trenches
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Despatches: Tales of Tyne Cot
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Despatches: Christmas on the Somme
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Despatches: Battlefield Pilgrimages
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Somme: Schwaben Redoubt
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Despatches: Cemetery in the Sand Dunes
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Flanders: The CCS Cemeteries
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Despatches: WW1 Trench Museums
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Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery
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Despatches: The Butte de Warlencourt
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War at Sea: HMS India
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Walking Arras: Gavrelle
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Memoirs: The Great War Remembered
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Volunteers in WW1 with Richard Van Emden
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Return of The Old Front Line
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Podcasting About the Great War
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Somme Mine Craters with Peter Doyle
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Walking Arras: Hénin Hill
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Charley's War
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Season 5 Old Front Line Roundup
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Somme: Contalmaison to Bazentin
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Great War Music with Beverley Palin
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Verdun In A Day
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The Pillboxes of Flanders
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Trench Chat: The Caretakers with Caitlin DeAngelis
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From Training to Trenches
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First Day Of The Somme
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The Monocled Mutineer: Fact or Fiction?
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Gas! Gas! Gas!
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Ypres Walks: Menin Gate to Ypres Town Cemetery
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Somme Walks: Hawthorn Ridge to the Sunken Lane
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Changing Landscapes: Canal du Nord
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