Mons: A Bridge At Nimy

The Old Front Line

Paul Reed

Education, History, Tv & Film, Film History

4.8 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In the final episode of Season 2, we look back at this season's podcasts and ahead to the future of The Old Front Line, and then travel to Belgium, to examine some of the opening shots of the war at the village of Nimy, near Mons, where the men of the 4th Royal Fusiliers fought in August 1914. Send us a text Support the show

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0:00.0	Today, fast trains thunder across the railway bridge at Nimmie, just outside the Belgian
0:10.4	city of Mons. But more than a century ago in August 1914, this was the place where the British
0:17.8	army went to war.
0:26.0	As this episode marks the end of season two of the podcast,
0:29.3	I wanted to have a season roundup, really,
0:31.7	to look back at some of the things that we've done and also look forward to some of the plans that I have for the podcast
0:35.6	as we move towards season three.
0:38.4	It's been a very enjoyable season for me, and I want to thank you all for your supports by
0:44.8	listening to and downloading the podcast. We've gone through some incredible milestones with
0:51.4	the podcast. On the 1st of July, we passed a quarter of a million downloads and since then which is only about six and a bit weeks away we've had another 40,000 downloads so by the time this episode goes out we'll be close on 300,000 and that to me is really quite incredible way beyond anything that I thought
1:13.0	when I first started this podcast last March. Over the course of this season, we've walked
1:19.7	the Western Front from Flanders to the Somme and as far down as the champagne. I've tried to
1:26.4	look at some diverse subjects. Recently we talked about as the champagne. I've tried to look at some diverse subjects.
1:28.9	Recently we talked about behind the lines, not on the front line itself, but the area behind
1:34.8	the front line, which was just as important to the history of the Great War.
1:38.5	And it was good to introduce books and battlefields into the podcast with a look at a particular area of the Somme through
1:46.6	the eyes of three Great War authors and that's something I'll return to in the upcoming season
1:52.9	of the old front line. One of our most popular episodes was the episode looking at the film
2:00.0	1917. Now this film seems to be something that you
2:05.4	either love or hate but what I wanted to do in that episode was to challenge some of the
2:10.5	myths surrounding it that the history and it was somehow wrong and it was really good to see
2:15.5	people's reaction to that so we'll probably look at doing that
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