WW1 Podcast with Paul Reed
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
At 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 the 1920s but stories of it circulated once more during the Great War Centenary. So what…
In a follow on film to our recent episode about the Battlefields of the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in September 1918, we explore the American Cemetery at Romagne and ask are the American dead from the Great War forgotten? This is the largest US War Cemetery in Europe with over 14,000 graves, and despite the size and…
In this latest Battlefield Vlog we explore the battlefields of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive of September 1918. Our journey takes us from Varennes and the Pennsylvania Memorial, to the high point of Montfaucon and the small bitterly contested village of Cunel. This was one of the bloodiest American engagements of…
In 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 ‘the Old Front Line’, how the opposing armies held the Western Front, and what kind of methods…
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