Welcome to some more questions and answers here on the old front line.

These are questions submitted by you, the podcast, listeners,

and each month we select some of the best questions that have been submitted via email and the Discord server to answer here and hopefully give us all fresh perspectives

and new knowledge of this vast subject of the Great War.

So let's begin.

One of the things that I like about the question and answer episodes of the podcast

is that it gives us an opportunity to discuss some quite broad subjects when it comes to the history of the Great War.

And that's something that you seem to like too. Rather, as in the main episodes where we focus on one area or one layer of the First World War,

in these episodes we get to kind of dip into some subjects,

make us hopefully think about those subjects, learn from it,

and perhaps seek out more knowledge.

Because within the confines of an episode like this,

we can't possibly cover the subjects in depth,

but they've certainly made me think about future ideas for podcasts further down the line.

And those subjects that we're going to talk about this time are just as broad and also come from

quite a broad element of our audience, people from North America and Australia, as well as from

the UK. And it was quite interesting over the Christmas period to have a look at our podcast

statistics to see who listens to the podcast,

where they listen from. It's probably not a surprise that most of the audience is from the UK,

but there's a growing element of listeners from the United States and also from Australia and

New Zealand. And one thing that was particularly of interest to me is the age of our audience.

Now, I don't know exactly how some of these podcast platforms work out the age of listeners

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