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The Old Front Line

Podcast Questions & Answers Ep 4

The Old Front Line

Paul Reed

Education, History, Tv & Film, Film History

4.8637 Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this latest Questions & Answers episode we look at how we read the landscape of the Great War, visiting the Sunken Lane at Beaumont Hamel and Talbot House, discuss that remains of RFC/RAF airfields, examine the survival rates of officers and ask what part weather played in the experience of the trenches. Got a question about this episode or any others? Drop your question into the Old Front Line Discord Server or email the podcast. Send us a text Support the show

Transcript

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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.

0:28.5

We're back with another questions and answer episode.

0:32.6

One of these bonus episodes where we answer your questions posed by previous podcasts or the ones that are out

0:39.9

currently now. And this particular Q&A episode officially brings us to the end of season six.

0:49.3

We've been going for quite a few months now and we've covered a lot of diverse subjects we've brought in dispatches

0:56.4

this season the shorter podcasts and also these Q&As so there'll be a short break between this

1:04.6

episode and the beginning of season seven so not long to wait until the old front line returns once more so let's get down to

1:16.1

the questions for this Q&A episode remember that you can ask these questions and the details are in

1:23.4

the show notes via two main routes one of those is via the old front line discord server and there's a link to that as I say in the show notes via two main routes. One of those is via the old front line Discord server

1:29.5

and there's a link to that as I say in the show notes or you can click the email link and send

1:34.6

a question in via email. And there's a lot come in, some really brilliant ones in the last

1:41.0

few days and we're going to get around to all of them over the course of the

1:46.2

coming weeks so question one is from stephen via email he says i love the q and a for me perhaps

1:54.6

like many of the great war novices i sometimes struggle to see or visualize where exactly the soldiers stood or where they were that can actually still be experienced today when I visit.

2:08.6

For example, the sunken lane at Beaumont-Hammel.

2:11.8

How exactly did they get there?

2:13.8

Where exactly were they in the photo?

2:16.5

Near the Scots Memorial or further down the lane,

2:19.3

and did they attack to the left or the right of the lane or up the lane or down it?

2:24.7

Also is the Tokh building in Popperinger the original,

2:28.6

and did so many soldiers visit that house that exists today, or was it rebuilt?

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