We're already a few episodes into season nine, and thanks as always for your continued feedback.

It's always good to hear what you think of the podcast and indeed individual episodes.

I get quite a lot of emails every week and they're always fascinating.

You give me information about your trips to the battlefields and what you've seen and how

you've listened to particular episodes in the field, literally on those battlefields that the podcasts are about.

And it's great to have that kind of level of contact with you.

So please, please keep that going.

It was also good last weekend to be up in Buckinghamshire

at the We Have Ways Festival. Of course, it's a Second World

War festival. I kept hearing about the wrong war, as people would call it, this phrase which

I guess relates to conflicts that aren't World War II. But of course, one thing that you learn the more

you study any of these periods within that first half of the 20th century is how they always interconnect.

And we've had quite a few episodes here about how the First World War meets the second.

And in some respects, vice versa as well.

But what was great is to see people's enthusiasm for history at a festival

like that and also have an opportunity to talk to so many of you who listened to the old

Frontline podcast and I was very impressed to see three people who were wearing their old

front line t-shirts.

So, well, done on that.

Now, we do have a merch shop now due to popular demand.

People asked about this.

So a shop has been put online and you can order stuff and it will ship it to just about anywhere.

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