Old Front Line

The Old Front Line

The Old Front Line is a WW1 podcast

with Military Historian Paul Reed.

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The Latest Podcast Episodes

Podcast Questions & Answers Ep 4

In this latest Questions & Answers episode we look at how we read the landscape of the Great War, visiting the Sunken Lane at Beaumont Hamel and Talbot House, discuss that remains of RFC/RAF airfields, examine the survival rates of officers and ask what part weather played in the experience of the trenches.

Battlefield Vlog: The British on the Aisne 1914 & 1918

In the latest Old Front Line Battlefield Vlog we travel to Northern-Eastern France and look at the British Army on the Aisne at the two ends of the war in 1914 and 1918. In 1914 the regular army or ‘Old Contemptibles’ fought here, and in 1918 a conscript Army stood in the path of the…

Podcast Questions & Answers Ep 3

In this latest Old Front Line Podcast Questions & Answers Episode we answer four questions from listeners asking what is the most memorable story of the Great War I’ve visited, what battlefield draws me back time and again, what did British troops think about Australians and Canadians, and what was the weaponry of ordinary soldiers…