Incredibly, this is our 40th question and answer episode, 40 episodes of Q&As staggering.

It's something that I started after a suggestion from a regular listener

who lives in Tumbridge Wells who spoke to a friend of mine and mentioned that in some of the other

podcasts that they listened to, unconnected to the First World War, they had regular Q&A sessions

and would that be something that I'd consider? And I wasn't really

sure how it would be received, but I was already getting a lot of questions which I was

answering by email and this is something that happens on battlefield doors, obviously not by email

because the people

are sitting in a coach with me, someone at the front asks a question and the answer probably

will be of interest to a wider audience. So I then get on the microphone and I talk to everyone.

And this is kind of the same thing, but to a much bigger audience through the podcast itself.

But the Q&A episodes have become incredibly popular.

Some of our highest peaking episodes in terms of listener figures have been Q&A episode.

So I think that what people like is having essentially four different elements of Great War

History in one episode.

A lot of diverse topics that probably wouldn't necessarily make an episode in their own right,

but it gives us a chance to talk about those subjects.

And I must say that the quality and diverse nature of the questions

that you've sent in are really what makes these episodes. So thank you for that. Thank you for

helping me reach this milestone of 40 Q&A episodes. And please, please keep those questions coming.

And this week as well has been a week in which the BBC on BBC 4 have repeated my very

first television programme that I made for mainstream television.

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