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Old Front Line Podcast
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A First World War #podcast hosted by Military Historian, Paul Reed.
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Old Front Line Podcast @oldfrontline.bsky.social · Aug 1
Chinese Labour Corps & Shot at Dawn: Poperinghe in #WW1. The latest Old Front Line video now on YouTube.
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Chinese Labour Corps & Shot at Dawn: Poperinghe in WW1
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The Death of WW1 Poet Wilfred Owen - the latest video on the Old Front Line YouTube Channel:
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WW1 War Poet Wilfred Owen: where he fell in November 1918
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November 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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In the latest @oldfrontline.bsky.social we explore some lesser known battlefields on the Western Front, what happened to captured trenches, the rise of AI in military history of #WW1 & whether Great War generals were butchers or brilliant.

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Questions and Answers Episode 40
In this 40th Questions and Answers episode, we explore some of the lesser-known battlefields of the Western Front, uncovering places where traces of the First World War fig…
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November 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Thanks to all who joined me for an @oldfrontline.bsky.social Supporters Evening where we discussed the Official Images of the Battle of Messines in June 1917.
October 30, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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In the latest @oldfrontline.bsky.social we discuss:

- How big is the 'Zone Rouge' today?
- Was morphine use in the trenches ever misused?
- When did British and Canadian troops first get steel helmets?
- Which #WW1 slang terms are still in use today?

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Questions and Answers Episode 39
In this episode we ask what is the current size of the ‘Zone Rouge’ and are there plans to clear it? We then look at the use of morphine to treat pain and was this misused? We then look…
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November 1, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Very pleased that the BBC will be specially re-showing my first ever TV programme ‘Forgotten Battlefield’ made in 2001 by John Hayes Fisher about the work of The Diggers at Ypres. BBC4 6th November at 19.30:

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BBC Two - Meet the Ancestors, Series 5, The Forgotten Battlefield
Life on the World War I front line near Ypres is pieced together by archaeologists.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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In the latest @oldfrontline.bsky.social QnAs we look at:

- Was there only one “Hill 80”?
- How did armies supply millions of men in #WW1?
- Did regiments fight with multiple battalions at the front at once?
- Who were the “whippers-in” at the front line?

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Questions and Answers Episode 38
In this latest QnA episode, we tackle a fresh set of listener questions about the First World War, ranging from battlefield geography to the realities of supply and discipline at the front. We star…
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October 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Battle of Loos with Peter Doyle: in the latest @oldfrontline.bsky.social we are joined by @profpeterdoyle.bsky.social to discuss the offensive of September 1915.

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Battle of Loos with Peter Doyle
In a special episode we are joined by Professor Peter Doyle who delivered this talk on Loos at a Podcast Supporters Evening for the 110th Anniversary of the battle last month. Peter’s new edi…
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October 25, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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What I’m listening to this week. Started with:

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Remembering the Forgotten Front
Podcast Episode · The Old Front Line · 09/27/2025 · 1h 7m
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October 7, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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Remembering the Forgotten Front: in the latest @oldfrontline.bsky.social for the 110th Anniversary of the Battle of Loos we make an overview of the 'Forgotten Front' in Northern France and discover the history, landscape and stories of those who fought there.

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Remembering the Forgotten Front
What was the “Forgotten Front” of Northern France? In this episode, we explore the stretch of battlefield from Armentières on the Belgian border through La Bassée to the ground near Loos,…
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September 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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#Loos110: It's the 110th Anniversary of the Battle of Loos which took place #OTD in 1915. Discover more about the battle with this episode of @oldfrontline.bsky.social with a new one on the Forgotten Front coming this weekend.

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Loos 1915 in a Day
In this episode, we feature another Battlefield In A Day and visit the area around the Northern French coal-mining village of Loos-en-Gohelle where the Battle of Loos was fought in September-Octobe…
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September 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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Questions & Answers Episode 36: in the latest
@oldfrontline.bsky.social we answer questions about what happened to German forces at the end of the war, how the dead were buried, poison gas and the fate of all those War Horses at the close of the conflict.
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Questions and Answers Episode 36
In our first QnA Episode for Season 9 we look at what happened to the German forces when the guns went silent on 11th November 1918, discuss the use of poison gas and it’s legacy on the battl…
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September 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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In our first episode for Season 9 of @oldfrontline.bsky.social we walk the battlefield at Gommecourt, looking at the fighting here on 1st July 1916.

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Walking the Somme: Gommecourt
In our first episode of Season 9, we walk the northern part of the Somme battlefield from Foncquevillers out to the ground before Gommecourt, and examine the attack here by the 46th (North Midland)…
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September 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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The first Old Front Line #podcast Bulletin went out today - it’s a free newsletter published every two weeks. Subscribe for free here: mailchi.mp/cf62f401e843...
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August 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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The new Old Front Line #podcast Bulletin goes live next weekend! Stay in touch with what we do on the podcast in this bi-weekly newsletter. Subscribe for free here: mailchi.mp/cf62f401e843...
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August 11, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Did you know The Old Front Line #podcast now has an online shop? Check it out here: old-front-line-shop.fourthwall.com/en-gbp/colle...
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August 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Chinese Labour Corps & Shot at Dawn: Poperinghe in #WW1. The latest Old Front Line video now on YouTube.
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Chinese Labour Corps & Shot at Dawn: Poperinghe in WW1
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August 1, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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The Devonshires Held This Trench: the latest Old Front Line Video now on #YouTube: youtu.be/WOKVVBWy6C0?...
The Devonshires Held This Trench: The Story Behind a Somme Tragedy
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July 13, 2025 at 5:10 AM
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Above the Battlefield: Royal Flying Corps & RAF in WW1: in the start of a special Old Front Line #podcast War in the Air Month, we begin with an overview of the RFC & RAF on the Western Front in #WW1.

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Above the Battlefield: Royal Flying Corps & RAF in WW1
For the start of our War in the Air Month, we begin with a look at the real story of the ‘Twenty Minuters’, the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force in the First World War. We look at…
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July 19, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Air War Month starts this Saturday on the Old Front Line #podcast with an introductory episode followed by interviews with @1940andy.bsky.social & Josh Levine followed by a special QnA & an Episode looking at what we find of the RFC/RAF on the battlefields today. [click on image for schedule!]
July 15, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Tanks & Trenches: Canada Attacks at Courcelette September 1916. The latest Old Front Line #YouTube video is out now:
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Tanks & Trenches: Canada Attacks at Courcelette September 1916
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June 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Ypres Battlefield in Unseen Photos from the 1950s-60s. One of our latest videos over on the Old Front Line #YouTube Channel:

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Ypres Battlefields in Unseen Photos from the 1950s–60s
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June 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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In the latest Old Front Line #podcast we speak to the Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre Commemorations team - otherwise known as 'The MOD War Detectives' - who work to recover and identify the dead on the former battlefields of the Great War.
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The MOD War Detectives
In a Trench Chat special we speak to the Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre Commemorations team – otherwise known as ‘The MOD War Detectives’ – who work to recover and …
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June 14, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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The Arras Memorial to the Missing: the latest Old Front Line #YouTube video exploring some of the stories here is now online.
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The Arras Memorial to the Missing | WW1 Heroes Remembered
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May 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Forgotten Memoirs of the Great War Part 1: in this latest Old Front Line #podcast we begin a look at some of the lesser known memoirs of #WW1 starting with an account covering Gallipoli and the Somme.

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Forgotten Memoirs of the Great War Part 1
In this episode we start a look at some of the Forgotten Memoirs of the First World War, starting with Percy Croney’s ‘Soldiers Luck’ published in the mid-1960s. Croney was a 1914…
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May 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Sambre Canal 1918: Lock No. 1. In the latest Old Front Line #podcast, we look at this part of the final great battle on the Western Front.
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Sambre Canal 1918: Lock No 1
In this episode we travel to the last major battlefield of the Great War on the Western Front – the Sambre Canal. Here we follow the story of the infantry and the engineers who attacked the C…
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April 19, 2025 at 7:30 AM