About this episode

This milestone edition features listener prompts exploring personal stories and broader battlefield themes in First World War history.

We are now 50 Q&As in, and the questions keep getting better, sharper, and more human! This milestone edition of The Old Front Line is built around four listener prompts that take us from the small, intimate scale of one soldier’s photograph to the vast, uneasy scale of a battlefield that never fully stops giving things back to the surface. We start with the stories that first hooked me on First World War history: individual men whose faces, medals, and graves became “beacons” I return t...

People in this episode

Host: Paul Reed

Topics covered

• First World War history
• listener questions
• battlefield stories
• photographs
• soldiers' experiences

Keywords

• First World War
• history
• Q&A
• soldiers
• battlefield
• photographs
• military history

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