For our 100th episode, join us as we walk from the flatlands of Flanders,

the chalk downland of the Somme, the forests of Verdun,

and close to the mountains of the Vogue, where the Western Front came to an end.

Travel with us across the old front line it's hard to believe that this is the

hundredth episode of the old front line podcast wow what an achievement an achievement only really

possible with your support by listening to this podcast. The thousands of

you each week who listen in and download and then give your feedback by liking the podcast on one

of the platforms, by tweeting what you think of it to me on Twitter, by making comments on the

Facebook page or the podcast website.

All of this is greatly appreciated and it's incredible if I look back to when the podcast

began in March 2020 right at the beginning of the pandemic.

As I mentioned before, it had been my intention to launch some kind of podcast long

before that. And I thought to myself, whenever would I get the opportunity to sit down and think

about this and really put something out there? And if there is a benefit from that period,

this is certainly it, the chance to think about what a podcast would be, what it would be about, and more importantly, to tell some of the stories that we've told over the course of what is now nearly two years.

We're approaching nearly half a million downloads. And again, when I think about that, and this is the 100th episode, it is quite mind-blowing.

And the community that we've built up through this is really a great bonus that I could never have predicted.

Those of you who do interact, like I say, on social media or through the podcast website or support the podcast directly through Buy Me a Coffee or Patreon and the social evenings that we have, they're a really important part of it as well, the one that we had only just this last week with Simon Verdigum talking about battlefield archaeology, conflict archaeology, record numbers

of you attended that and we had a really interesting evening with some fascinating questions and

again the other thing that kind of staggers me when I look at the statistics of the podcast is just

what a multinational audience you all are.

You're literally from all over the world.

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