The huge skies and the vast open fields above the Somme village of Corsolette was where

Canada's anvil of sacrifice took place in 1916. In this 50th episode of the Old Frontline,

the talk is of tanks and teenage tommies and and once more the forgotten song.

Thanks for joining me on this 50th episode of the old front line. Wow, 50 episodes. It's quite

incredible to think that we've come this far. It's nearly a year since I started the podcast now

and I began it thinking that hopefully some people would

be interested in the ramblings of a battlefield guide with at that point no battlefields to

go and see except in his mind. But I'm staggered really and humbled by the huge number of people that now listen to the old Frontline podcast.

By the time we get to the end of our first year, we'll be close on, I think, 200,000 downloads, which is really quite amazing.

And I really do want to thank you all for your support in listening and downloading and commenting on Twitter and Facebook and for those of you too who support the podcasts either via Patreon or buy me a coffee it's really helped move things forward and also help me plan for the future and when i look to the future obviously

we're going to continue to do this on a regular basis and hopefully sometime later this year it will be

possible to get back to the battlefields of the great war and record some more episodes as i managed

to do with a fleeting glimpse out there last July, actually

on the grounds itself, which I think gives a bit more depth to it. And also revisit some of the

places that we've visited on previous podcasts and talk to some people on the ground as well. It'll be

great. For example, when the Commonwealth Wargraves Commission interns return to the battlefields and have a chance to talk to them. And also to talk to those who work and live on the battlefields as well. And hopefully during the course of making those episodes out on the grounds, meet some of you and meet some of the people who visit

and discover why they go to the Western Front and what it means to them. So there's lots of

episodes planned. We've still got a huge amount of the battlefields of the Great War to yet

visits in these podcasts. So we're not going to run out of subjects or ideas and we've dipped in and out

of history rather than just straight battlefields as well which will continue to do and one of the

things that i hope to explore once we again can get out onto the battlefields is to produce some

video versions visual versions of some of these podcasts, video podcasts, I suppose,

...