About this episode

This episode features a Q&A about the battlefields of the Western Front and their legacy after World War One.

In this special Q&A episode of the Old Front Line podcast, recorded on location at Hooge, near Ypres, we answer questions about the battlefields of the Western Front and the legacy of the First World War. We begin by exploring what happened to the woods and forests on the Western Front during World War One. Were they completely destroyed by shellfire? Did they naturally grow back after the war, or were they replanted? And more than a century later, have these landscapes ever truly recover...

People in this episode

Host: Paul Reed

Topics covered

• battlefields
• Western Front
• First World War
• landscape recovery
• Q&A

Keywords

• battlefields
• Western Front
• First World War
• landscape recovery
• Hooge
• Ypres
• Q&A

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Hooge, Ypres, Western Front

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