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)
Somme Walks: Bois Français
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Trench Chat: Black Poppies with Stephen Bourne
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Springboks at Delville Wood
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Forgotten Battlefield: The Reunion
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Verdun: The Trench of Bayonets
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The Hindenburg Line
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Ypres: The Immortal Salient
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Trench Chat: Reclaiming The Salient with Roger Steward
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Birds on the Western Front
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WW1 Battlefield Pilgrimages: Trench Chat with Professor Mark Connelly
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Doughboys in Flanders
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The Art of War
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Winter on the Somme
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Gallipoli: The Farm
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Five Little-Known WW1 Memorials
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How I Wrote my WW1 Battlefield Walking Books
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Trench Chat: America in WW1 with Mike Cunha
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Remembrance: Five Little-Known Cemeteries of the Great War
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Crawley War Memorial with Renny Richardson
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Henry Williamson's Books
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Film Review: All Quiet on the Western Front
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Loos 1915 In A Day
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Return to the Silent Cities
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Where WW1 Meets WW2
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Somme: Villers-Bretonneux 1918
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Forty Years on the Old Front Line
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Behind The Lines at Ypres
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Great War Objects: Touching The Past
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Great War Veterans
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Vimy Ridge In A Day
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Somme: Across the Pozières Ridge
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Arras In A Day
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Somme: La Boisselle to Contalmaison
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Adjutant's Notebook: What Is A Division?
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The Somme In A Day
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Above The Battlefield: WW1 Aerial Photography
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Ypres In A Day
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Walking Arras: Feuchy Chapel
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Walking Ypres: Brandhoek
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The Bantams of Bourlon Wood
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100th Episode: Across The Old Front Line
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Henry Williamson's War
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Aisne: The Old Contemptibles at Soupir
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Tommy Tucker: Food in WW1
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Forgotten Front: The Cuinchy Brickstacks
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Poets on the Somme
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Unquiet Truce: The Men Who Died on Christmas Day 1914
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Trench Chat: Matt Dixon from Footsteps of the Fallen Podcast
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Vimy Ridge: The Crater Cemeteries
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Somme: Heilly Station Cemetery
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