The Old Front Line
By Paul Reed
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Episodes: 270
Jul 7, 2025
Jens
Jul 22, 2020
Interesting podcast, brilliantly passionate.
Description
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.
| Episode | Date |
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Questions and Answers Episode 42
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Dec 13, 2025 |
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A Tale of Two Veterans
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Dec 06, 2025 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 41
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Nov 29, 2025 |
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Caring For The Silent Cities
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Nov 22, 2025 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 40
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Nov 15, 2025 |
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West of Arras: Behind The Lines
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Nov 08, 2025 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 39
|
Nov 01, 2025 |
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Battle of Loos with Peter Doyle
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Oct 25, 2025 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 38
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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Gunner Officer: Malcolm Vyvyan
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 37
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Oct 04, 2025 |
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Remembering the Forgotten Front
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Sep 27, 2025 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 36
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Sep 20, 2025 |
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Walking the Somme: Gommecourt
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Sep 13, 2025 |
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Bonus Episode: The Menin Gate at Night
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Sep 06, 2025 |
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Bonus Episode: A Siege Battery Gunner
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Aug 30, 2025 |
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Bonus Episode: A Divisional Memorial
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Aug 23, 2025 |
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RFC/RAF: Where They Flew & Fell
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Aug 16, 2025 |
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Questions & Answers: RFC/RAF Special
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Aug 09, 2025 |
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The Air War in WW1 - with Josh Levine
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Aug 02, 2025 |
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The Search for Mick Mannock with Andy Saunders
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Jul 26, 2025 |
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Above the Battlefield: Royal Flying Corps & RAF in WW1
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Jul 19, 2025 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 34
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Jul 12, 2025 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 33
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Jul 05, 2025 |
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Return to the Somme
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Jun 28, 2025 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 32
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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The MOD War Detectives
|
Jun 14, 2025 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 31
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Jun 07, 2025 |
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Live from The Arras Memorial
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May 31, 2025 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 30
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May 24, 2025 |
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Forgotten Memoirs of the Great War Part 1
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May 17, 2025 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 29
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May 10, 2025 |
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The Other Trench: with Philipp Cross
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May 03, 2025 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 28
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Apr 26, 2025 |
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Sambre Canal 1918: Lock No 1
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Apr 19, 2025 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 27
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Apr 12, 2025 |
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Ypres: The Menin Road
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Apr 05, 2025 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 26
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Mar 29, 2025 |
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Somme: Tara-Usna Hills
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 25
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Mar 15, 2025 |
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Live From Ypres: Bayernwald Trenches
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Mar 08, 2025 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 24
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Mar 01, 2025 |
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Walking Cambrai: Gouzeaucourt 1917
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Feb 22, 2025 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 23
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Feb 15, 2025 |
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WW1 on Film: Our World War
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Feb 08, 2025 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 22
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Feb 01, 2025 |
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Somme: Albert-Bapaume Road
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Jan 25, 2025 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 21
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Jan 18, 2025 |
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Walking the Somme: Mailly-Maillet
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Jan 11, 2025 |
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Questions and Answers Special: WW1 Ancestors
|
Dec 28, 2024 |
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Five Iconic Objects of Trench Warfare
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Dec 21, 2024 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 19
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Dec 14, 2024 |
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Walking Arras: Point du Jour
|
Dec 07, 2024 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 18
|
Nov 30, 2024 |
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Somme Winter Walk
|
Nov 23, 2024 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 17
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Nov 16, 2024 |
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WW1 on Film: Oh What A Lovely War!
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 16
|
Nov 02, 2024 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 15
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Oct 26, 2024 |
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Loos: A New WW1 Cemetery
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Oct 19, 2024 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 14
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Oct 12, 2024 |
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Five Weapons of WW1 Trench Warfare
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 13
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Sep 28, 2024 |
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A Bridge at Fismes
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Sep 21, 2024 |
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Questions and Answers Episode 12
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Sep 14, 2024 |
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The Unknown Warrior with John Nichol
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Sep 07, 2024 |
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Podcast Summer Special
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Aug 17, 2024 |
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Podcast Questions & Answers Ep 10
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Jul 27, 2024 |
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Return to Richebourg
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Jul 20, 2024 |
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Podcast Questions & Answers Ep 9
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Jul 13, 2024 |
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Somme 1916: Nab Valley
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Jul 06, 2024 |
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Podcast Questions & Answers Ep 8
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Jun 29, 2024 |
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Somme Books
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Jun 22, 2024 |
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Podcast Questions & Answers Ep 7
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Jun 15, 2024 |
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Gallipoli: The First D-Day?
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Jun 08, 2024 |
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Podcast Questions & Answers Ep 6
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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The War Underground
|
Jun 01, 2024 |
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Why was there Trench Warfare in WW1?
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May 25, 2024 |
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Podcast Questions & Answers Ep 5
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May 22, 2024 |
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Newfoundland's Unknown Soldier
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May 18, 2024 |
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Podcast Questions & Answers Ep 4
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May 08, 2024 |
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Podcast Questions & Answers Ep 3
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May 01, 2024 |
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Etaples to Arras: A Journey
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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Podcast Questions & Answers Ep 2
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Despatches: Somme - Redan Ridge
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Apr 20, 2024 |
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Aftermath: The Myth of the Red Zone
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Apr 13, 2024 |
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Podcast Questions & Answers: Episode 1
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Despatches: A Weekend in Ypres
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Mar 30, 2024 |
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Beyond The Somme
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Mar 23, 2024 |
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Four Years of the Old Front Line
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Mar 16, 2024 |
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Despatches: By Train to Ypres
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Mar 09, 2024 |
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Despatches: Fort de Loncin 1914
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Mar 02, 2024 |
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Exhibiting The Great War
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Feb 24, 2024 |
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Despatches: Somme Trench Map
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Feb 17, 2024 |
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WW1 At Home: Shorncliffe Cemetery
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Feb 10, 2024 |
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Despatches: War Damage Postcards
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Feb 03, 2024 |
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Despatches: Wings Over Flanders
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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The Dead Man's Penny
|
Jan 20, 2024 |
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Letters From The Trenches
|
Jan 13, 2024 |
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Despatches: Tales of Tyne Cot
|
Jan 10, 2024 |
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Despatches: Christmas on the Somme
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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Despatches: Battlefield Pilgrimages
|
Dec 20, 2023 |
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Somme: Schwaben Redoubt
|
Dec 16, 2023 |
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Despatches: Cemetery in the Sand Dunes
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Flanders: The CCS Cemeteries
|
Dec 09, 2023 |
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Despatches: WW1 Trench Museums
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery
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Dec 02, 2023 |
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Despatches: The Butte de Warlencourt
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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War at Sea: HMS India
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Nov 25, 2023 |
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Walking Arras: Gavrelle
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Nov 18, 2023 |
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Memoirs: The Great War Remembered
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Nov 11, 2023 |
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Volunteers in WW1 with Richard Van Emden
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Nov 04, 2023 |
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Return of The Old Front Line
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Oct 28, 2023 |
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Podcasting About the Great War
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Oct 07, 2023 |
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Somme Mine Craters with Peter Doyle
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Sep 30, 2023 |
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Walking Arras: Hénin Hill
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Sep 23, 2023 |
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Charley's War
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Sep 16, 2023 |
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Season 5 Old Front Line Roundup
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Aug 26, 2023 |
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Somme: Contalmaison to Bazentin
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Aug 19, 2023 |
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Great War Music with Beverley Palin
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Aug 12, 2023 |
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Verdun In A Day
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Aug 05, 2023 |
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The Pillboxes of Flanders
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Jul 29, 2023 |
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Trench Chat: The Caretakers with Caitlin DeAngelis
|
Jul 15, 2023 |
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From Training to Trenches
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Jul 08, 2023 |
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First Day Of The Somme
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Jul 01, 2023 |
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The Monocled Mutineer: Fact or Fiction?
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Jun 24, 2023 |
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Gas! Gas! Gas!
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Jun 10, 2023 |
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Ypres Walks: Menin Gate to Ypres Town Cemetery
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Jun 03, 2023 |
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Somme Walks: Hawthorn Ridge to the Sunken Lane
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May 20, 2023 |
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Changing Landscapes: Canal du Nord
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May 13, 2023 |
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Somme Walks: Bois Français
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May 06, 2023 |
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Trench Chat: Black Poppies with Stephen Bourne
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Apr 22, 2023 |
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Springboks at Delville Wood
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Apr 15, 2023 |
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Forgotten Battlefield: The Reunion
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Apr 01, 2023 |
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Verdun: The Trench of Bayonets
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Mar 18, 2023 |
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The Hindenburg Line
|
Mar 04, 2023 |
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Ypres: The Immortal Salient
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Feb 25, 2023 |
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Trench Chat: Reclaiming The Salient with Roger Steward
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Feb 11, 2023 |
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Birds on the Western Front
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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WW1 Battlefield Pilgrimages: Trench Chat with Professor Mark Connelly
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Jan 21, 2023 |
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Doughboys in Flanders
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Jan 14, 2023 |
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The Art of War
|
Jan 07, 2023 |
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Winter on the Somme
|
Dec 24, 2022 |
|
Gallipoli: The Farm
|
Dec 17, 2022 |
|
Five Little-Known WW1 Memorials
|
Dec 10, 2022 |
|
How I Wrote my WW1 Battlefield Walking Books
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Nov 26, 2022 |
|
Trench Chat: America in WW1 with Mike Cunha
|
Nov 19, 2022 |
|
Remembrance: Five Little-Known Cemeteries of the Great War
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Nov 12, 2022 |
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Crawley War Memorial with Renny Richardson
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Oct 29, 2022 |
|
Henry Williamson's Books
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Oct 22, 2022 |
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Film Review: All Quiet on the Western Front
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Oct 08, 2022 |
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Loos 1915 In A Day
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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Return to the Silent Cities
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Sep 17, 2022 |
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Where WW1 Meets WW2
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Sep 03, 2022 |
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Somme: Villers-Bretonneux 1918
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Aug 13, 2022 |
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Forty Years on the Old Front Line
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Jul 30, 2022 |
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Behind The Lines at Ypres
|
Jul 16, 2022 |
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Great War Objects: Touching The Past
|
Jul 02, 2022 |
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Great War Veterans
|
Jun 18, 2022 |
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Vimy Ridge In A Day
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Jun 04, 2022 |
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Somme: Across the Pozières Ridge
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May 21, 2022 |
|
Arras In A Day
|
May 07, 2022 |
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Somme: La Boisselle to Contalmaison
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Apr 23, 2022 |
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Adjutant's Notebook: What Is A Division?
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Apr 02, 2022 |
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The Somme In A Day
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Mar 26, 2022 |
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Above The Battlefield: WW1 Aerial Photography
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Mar 19, 2022 |
|
Ypres In A Day
|
Mar 12, 2022 |
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Walking Arras: Feuchy Chapel
|
Mar 05, 2022 |
|
Walking Ypres: Brandhoek
|
Feb 26, 2022 |
|
The Bantams of Bourlon Wood
|
Feb 19, 2022 |
|
100th Episode: Across The Old Front Line
|
Feb 12, 2022 |
|
Henry Williamson's War
|
Feb 05, 2022 |
|
Aisne: The Old Contemptibles at Soupir
|
Jan 29, 2022 |
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Tommy Tucker: Food in WW1
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Jan 22, 2022 |
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Forgotten Front: The Cuinchy Brickstacks
|
Jan 15, 2022 |
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Poets on the Somme
|
Jan 08, 2022 |
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Unquiet Truce: The Men Who Died on Christmas Day 1914
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Dec 24, 2021 |
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Trench Chat: Matt Dixon from Footsteps of the Fallen Podcast
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Dec 18, 2021 |
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Vimy Ridge: The Crater Cemeteries
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Dec 11, 2021 |
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Somme: Heilly Station Cemetery
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Dec 04, 2021 |
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Ypres: Lille Gate to Bedford House
|
Nov 27, 2021 |
|
Back To The Front: Arras & The Somme
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Nov 20, 2021 |
|
A Time to Remember
|
Nov 13, 2021 |
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Back To The Front: Ypres
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Nov 06, 2021 |
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Somme: Journey Up The Line
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Oct 30, 2021 |
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Gallipoli Cemeteries
|
Oct 23, 2021 |
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Ypres: Across the Messines Ridge
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Oct 16, 2021 |
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WW1 at Home: Mells, Somerset
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Oct 09, 2021 |
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A Space Has Been Reserved
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Oct 02, 2021 |
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Sussex to the Somme: Lowther's Lambs
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Sep 25, 2021 |
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Somme105: The Battle of Flers-Courcelette
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Sep 18, 2021 |
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Shot At Dawn
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Sep 11, 2021 |
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Walking the Somme: The Devonshire Cemetery
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Sep 04, 2021 |
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Mons: A Bridge At Nimy
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Aug 21, 2021 |
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Behind The Lines: The Crimson Coast
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Aug 14, 2021 |
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Walking the Somme: Mouquet Farm
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Aug 07, 2021 |
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Third Ypres Remembered
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Jul 31, 2021 |
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The Loos Memorial
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Jul 24, 2021 |
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Somme 105: The Battle Continues
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Jul 17, 2021 |
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The Western Front: WW1 Trench Warfare
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Jul 10, 2021 |
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Walking Ypres: Wieltje to the Steenbeek River
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Jul 03, 2021 |
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Somme 105th Anniversary
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Jul 01, 2021 |
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Walking The Somme: High Wood
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Jun 26, 2021 |
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Walking Ypres: Plugstreet Wood
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Jun 19, 2021 |
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Trench Chat: Canadian Remembrance Tourism with Samantha Cowan
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Jun 12, 2021 |
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Walking Arras: The Pals at Oppy Wood
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Jun 05, 2021 |
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Walking The Somme: Albert
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May 29, 2021 |
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WW1 at Home: War Graves Week
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May 22, 2021 |
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Trench Chat: WW1 Machine Guns with Richard Fisher
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May 15, 2021 |
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Books & Battlefields: The Somme
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May 08, 2021 |
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Walking The Somme: Ancre Valley
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May 01, 2021 |
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Last Digger Action: Montbrehain 1918
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Apr 24, 2021 |
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1914: The Princess & The Christmas Box
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Apr 17, 2021 |
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Flanders: Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery
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Apr 10, 2021 |
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Walking Arras: Bullecourt
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Apr 03, 2021 |
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Ypres: Hill 60
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Mar 27, 2021 |
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The Champagne Battlefields
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Mar 20, 2021 |
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Ypres: The Menin Gate
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Mar 13, 2021 |
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Forgotten Front: The Footballers of Loos
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Mar 06, 2021 |
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Trench Chat: War Cemeteries & Landscape with Dr Tim Godden
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Feb 27, 2021 |
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Somme: Courcelette to Regina Trench
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Feb 20, 2021 |
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Ypres: Hell Fire Corner
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Feb 13, 2021 |
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Somme: Ginchy to LesBoeufs
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Feb 06, 2021 |
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The Vimy Memorial
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Jan 30, 2021 |
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Trench Chat: Battlefield Tourism & Landscape with Amy Harrison
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Jan 23, 2021 |
|
The Film 1917 Uncovered
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Jan 16, 2021 |
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Walking Cambrai: Havrincourt
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Jan 09, 2021 |
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Walking The Somme: Authuille to Thiepval
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Jan 02, 2021 |
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Peace in No Man's Land: The Christmas Truce of 1914
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Dec 19, 2020 |
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Walking Ypres: Polygon Wood
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Dec 12, 2020 |
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Trench Chat: Remembrance in France with Mathilde Bernardet
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Dec 05, 2020 |
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Forgotten Battlefields: The Indian Corps at Neuve-Chapelle
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Nov 28, 2020 |
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Trench Chat: The Old Contemptibles with Andrew Thornton
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Nov 21, 2020 |
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Walking Ypres: Langemarck German Cemetery
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Nov 14, 2020 |
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Remembrance: Unknown Warriors
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Nov 11, 2020 |
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The Day the Guns Fell Silent: Armistice 1918
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Nov 07, 2020 |
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Britain’s Forgotten Black Army in WW1
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Oct 31, 2020 |
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Trench Chat: Great War Huts with Taff Gillingham
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Oct 24, 2020 |
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Somme: The Colonel's Field
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Oct 17, 2020 |
|
The Silent Cities
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Oct 10, 2020 |
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Trench Chat: The Missing with John Broom
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Oct 03, 2020 |
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The Missing of the Great War
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Sep 26, 2020 |
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Somme: Pozières to Martinpuich
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Sep 19, 2020 |
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Ypres: Hitler's War at Croonaert Wood
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Sep 12, 2020 |
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Trench Chat: WW1 Geology with Peter Doyle
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Sep 05, 2020 |
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Somme: Courcelette to ADANAC Cemetery
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Aug 29, 2020 |
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Ypres: A Walk to the Front Line
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Aug 22, 2020 |
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Walking The Somme: Fricourt
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Aug 15, 2020 |
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Flanders: Tyne Cot Cemetery
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Aug 08, 2020 |
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Return to the Old Front Line
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Aug 01, 2020 |
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Trench Chat: Veterans with Richard Van Emden
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Jul 25, 2020 |
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They Called It Passchendaele
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Jul 18, 2020 |
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Trench Chat: The Somme with Tim Thurlow
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Jul 11, 2020 |
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Somme: Newfoundland Park
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Jul 04, 2020 |
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Somme Anniversary
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Jul 01, 2020 |
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Walking Ypres: Sanctuary Wood
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Jun 27, 2020 |
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Walking The Somme: Pals at Serre
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Jun 20, 2020 |
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Walking Ypres: Kemmel Hill
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Jun 13, 2020 |
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Walking The Somme: Mametz Wood
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Jun 06, 2020 |
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Verdun: Fleury to Douaumont
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May 30, 2020 |
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Forgotten Battlefields: The Lone Tree, Loos
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May 23, 2020 |
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Walking The Somme: Guillemont Road
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May 16, 2020 |
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Walking Ypres: The Messines Ridge
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May 09, 2020 |
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Walking The Somme: A Tale of Two Dugouts
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May 02, 2020 |
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Walking Gallipoli: W Beach
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Apr 25, 2020 |
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Forgotten Battlefields: The Boar's Head 1916
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Apr 19, 2020 |
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Walking the Somme: Hawthorn Ridge
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Apr 12, 2020 |
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Arras Anniversary Special: Arras Veterans
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Apr 09, 2020 |
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Ypres Battlefield Archaeology & Essex Farm
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Apr 03, 2020 |
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A Walk Through Pozières
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Mar 29, 2020 |