Poets on the Somme

The Old Front Line

Paul Reed

Education, History, Tv & Film, Film History

4.8 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 8 January 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In this episode, we follow Great War poets Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon into the trenches near Fricourt at the 'Bois Français' during the months before the 1916 battle and learn about how the death of a much-beloved comrade affected them both. Send us a text Support the show

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0:00.0	A quiet wooded ridge in Piccaddy above the village of Freakor brings together two of the great literary giants of the First World War, Robert Graves and Seafried Sassoon. Was what happened to them here in 1915 and early 1916, really nothing of importance.
0:24.2	Welcome to the new year and welcome to the continuation of season three of the old front line podcast.
0:31.7	Last year was an incredible year with a huge number of episodes that went out and a massive amount of engagement from you all
0:39.8	and I really really appreciate this. The listening figures really are staggering to me at times
0:46.5	and it's not just that it's the interaction that we have through social media via email and the
0:53.0	podcast website.
0:55.1	And just before Christmas, I set you a little challenge to send me photographs of where
1:00.7	you listen to the podcast, whether that's out and about or in your own home or wherever it was.
1:07.7	And there's been a massive response to that, and I've retweeted them all on the old
1:13.2	front line podcast Twitter feed so you can find them all there quite a few of you've also sent me
1:19.0	things via email and it's been really interesting to see that and what a huge range of locations
1:25.2	that you listen to and what a massive diversity in terms of of locations that you listen to, and what a massive diversity in terms of countries
1:30.5	that people listen from. And I've seen photographs of the snow in Canada, of the red soil of
1:38.6	Oregon, of people listening on golf courses in California, and people out with their dogs that's a really common
1:46.9	theme is going out about doing a walk taking a dog out for a walk or perhaps the dog taking you
1:52.7	out for a walk and a lot of that and it's really nice to see this to see where it is that you listen
2:00.3	to what we do here on the old front line
2:02.7	and how you engage with it as well. And there's been some very nice comments there and I
2:06.9	really do appreciate those. As I've said, it has been an amazing year 2021. It's been a difficult
2:13.7	year for us all in and out of lockdowns, a lot of restrictions on travel. We haven't
2:18.7	got out to the battlefields in the way that we hope perhaps that we might do, but there has been
2:24.3	opportunities and I know many of you have been out there. And it was nice to receive one of the
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