The Western Front Association's podcasts are an eclectic mix of themed interviews with experts in their particular fields which shine a light into areas of the first world war which are sometimes overlooked

Ep. 145 – Stories from the Bo’ness War Memorial – Alan Gow & Robert Jardine…
Alan Gow and Robert Jardine about their book (written with Richard Hannah) on the lives and war serv…
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Ep. 144 – British West Indies Regiment and the Taranto 1918 Mutiny – Tony T…
Tony T, Oral Historian and Producer from Sweet Patootee productions, talks about a historical docume…
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Ep. 143 – Veterans, Families, Museums and Mementos of the FWW – Dr Ann-Mari…
Dr Anne-Marie Foster, Lecturer, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s …
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Ep. 142 – The Battle of the Somme Film – Dr Toby Haggith
Dr Toby Haggith, Senior Curator, Department of Second World War and Mid-20th Century Conflict, Imper…
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Ep. 141 – The Heugh Battery in the Great War – Diane Stephens
Diane Stephens, Manager of the Heugh Battery Museum about the battery and its role in the First Worl…
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Ep. 140 – Who Killed Kitchener? – David Laws
Former cabinet minister and MP, David Laws talks about Kitchener: his sad youth growing up in Irelan…
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Ep. 139 – Bilsdale in the Great War – Susan Laffey
Sue Laffey talks about the research she and Ida Atkinson did into the community of Bilsdale, North Y…
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Ep. 138 – The Indian Labour Corps in WW1 – Pratap Chhetri
Pratrap Chhetri’s research and interest goes beyond the statistics to take in tribal culture, memori…
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Ep. 137 – The letters of Douglas Haig and Hugo De Pree – Prof. Gary Sheffie…
Professor Gary Sheffield, Professor of War Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, talks about a…
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Ep. 136 – Food in the Trenches – Dr Rachel Duffett
Dr Rachel Duffett, Research Officer, Department of Sociology at the University of Essex, talks about…
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Ep. 135 – North East Coastal Communities during the Great War – Dr Michael …
Dr Michael Reeve, Academic Skills Tutor and History Lecturer at Leeds Beckett University, talks abou…
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Ep. 134 – Bainsfather’s ‘Other ‘ole’ cartoon – Dr Helen Brooks & Dr Pip Gre…
On this week’s Dispatches podcast, Dr Helen Brooks, Reader in Theatre and Cultural History, School o…
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