Winter on the Somme

The Old Front Line

Paul Reed

Education, History, Tv & Film, Film History

4.8 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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We look at three winters on the Somme front: from 1914 to 1916. We discuss Christmas Truces involving the French and Germans, and later when the British arrive, discuss the terrible sub-zero conditions of 1916, and look at the problem of Trench Foot, particularly amongst Australian troops faced with the harsh reality of Somme mud. Send us a text Support the show

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0:00.0	As Christmas approaches, we think of those men who lived in the ditches of the battlefields of the Great War, often in sub-zero temperatures.
0:13.4	What was it like to spend a winter on the som?
0:20.9	As Christmas approaches, this will be our last podcast of 2022 and our final episode of
0:29.7	Season 4 of the Old Front Line.
0:32.4	It's been a great year for the podcast.
0:34.9	We've gone from season 3, right through season four now with a whole
0:39.8	multitude of episodes. We went to bi-weekly episodes for a while, but as I think you might have
0:47.0	noticed in the last couple of months, what we've been doing is putting out a pretty much weekly
0:52.7	episode with a short gap and then another burst of several weekly episodes.
0:58.2	And I think that's probably how things will continue as we move on into next year.
1:03.7	From a listeners and listening point of view, I can't thank you enough really for all of the downloads, all of the listens that you've made to the podcast over the course of 2022.
1:16.3	Incredibly, we've had a total of over 313,000 downloads in the last 12 months.
1:22.8	And that really is quite staggering.
1:26.0	It's quite clear to me that the podcast has moved on to a very different level
1:31.1	in terms of the number of people that listen and the breadth and diversity of the listeners
1:37.4	in terms of their geographic location.
1:40.2	I think we reach well over 60 different countries now, which is just amazing.
1:46.2	And we're getting something like a thousand downloads a day.
1:49.9	So, as I say, I can't thank you enough, really, for your support in that.
1:55.2	You support the podcast just by listening, just by downloading, by tuning in to your weekly episode or however you
2:03.0	listen to it. And I very much appreciate that. The old front line podcast started during those
2:08.2	COVID years, which feel quite a long way off now. And we're coming into what is essentially
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