The Old Front Line
Hosted by Paul Reed · Paul Reed
4.9from 494 ratings
- 314
- Episodes
- 133
- Transcribed
- 494
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 726K
- YouTube views
About The Old Front Line
Walk the battlefields of the First World War with Military Historian, Paul Reed. In these podcasts, Paul brings together over 40 years of studying the Great War, from the stories of veterans he interviewed, to when he spent more than a decade living on the Old Front Line in the heart of the Somme battlefields.
- Publisher
- Paul Reed
- Category
- education · history · tv & film
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 29 Mar 2020
- Latest episode
- 7 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
133 of 314 episodes have a transcript.
7 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
Trench Chat: Hawthorn Mine Crater
31 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Questions and Answers Episode 62
24 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Somme: Stump Road to Regina Trench
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Trench Chat: Hawthorn Mine Crater
Published 7 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] No, no. Just to add in, when you mentioned about the 1918, when it went back there, I am doing some research into what did go on in 1918 at Hawthorne. And there are, if you go to Hawthorne Ridge number one and you pass the first few headstones as you walk in, they are 1918 burials. […]
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- YouTube views
- 726,322
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 185 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 309 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 93 / 100
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- Quality
- 94
- Social presence
- 97
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 96
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