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The Old Front Line

Podcast Questions & Answers Ep 3

The Old Front Line

Paul Reed

Education, History, Tv & Film, Film History

4.8637 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

In this latest Old Front Line Podcast Questions & Answers Episode we answer four questions from listeners asking what is the most memorable story of the Great War I've visited, what battlefield draws me back time and again, what did British troops think about Australians and Canadians, and what was the weaponry of ordinary soldiers and how did that change during the war? This is how the German Army rated British and Commonwealth Divisions in the Great War, taken from a 1916 report by the ...

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0:00.0

Welcome to a question and answer episode of the old front line podcast. In these bonus episodes, we'll answer the questions that you pose out of the episodes that we release each week. And don't forget to subscribe to the podcast via your favourite platform and do think about leaving us a review or a star rating. So let's get down to the podcast via your favourite platform and do think about leaving us a review or a star rating.

0:23.8

So let's get down to this week's questions.

0:28.9

So we're back with another question and answer episode.

0:33.8

These are proving really popular and it's really good to get your feedback.

0:39.6

I asked in the last one, which was shorter than the very first Q&A podcast that we did,

0:45.5

whether that was the right kind of length and the right kind of approach to doing these questions and answers,

0:52.0

and it seems to be what the majority of you want many people said

0:57.7

they like longer ones i kind of think in a good way that i can probably never please all of you but

1:04.0

i think this kind of works where it's about 20 30 minutes in length And we have around about four questions.

1:14.6

And some really, really good questions come in,

1:17.8

which I'm very, very grateful for and do keep sending them.

1:22.1

There's two ways to do it via email or via the old front line Discord server, which I know to some of you probably sounds a little bit frightening. It's a new bit of technology, but it's very easy to do. You can just go on there and you can post your question. Or if you don't fancy that, another bit of software to download, another app to have on your phone or your tablet, then you can use email. A couple of people suggested

1:45.7

possibly collating these questions and answers onto a webpage. I've had two or three suggestions

1:51.6

of that now. It's just a matter of time, really. And I hope these podcast episodes in their own right

1:57.4

kind of help to form a bit of an archive of these questions and answers.

2:03.0

So let's get down to this week's questions.

2:07.4

And our first question is from Grant C who posted this onto the Discord server.

2:13.3

Hi Paul, really enjoyed the first podcast relating to listeners' questions.

2:17.5

A great idea.

2:18.7

I do have a question for you, but you might not think it won for the podcast, though.

2:23.6

My interest has always been in the personal stories of those who served in the Great War,

2:28.1

as so many touching stories exist.

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