The WFA website will be undergoing routine maintenance work from 12 noon on Monday 29th June. You may experience brief interruptions to the Registration and Member login features.

Podcasts

The Western Front Association's podcasts 'Mentioned in Dispatches' are an eclectic mix of relaxed discussions with all kinds of contributors: experts in their particular fields, authors, historians, performers, speakers, researches, museum archivists and curators which sometimes shine a light into areas of the first world war which are overlooked.

Ep 153 51B8nl1phol Sx329 Bo1204203200
23 March 2020
Podcast Guest: David Martin

Ep. 153 – The 66th (East Lancs) Division During the German Spring Offensive

Listen
Defending Trinity College I
16 March 2020
Podcast Guest: Dr Rory Sweetman

Ep. 152 – Defence of Trinity College during the Easter Rising

Listen
Screenshot 2020 07 23 At 132520
9 March 2020
Podcast Guest: Andrea Hetherington

Ep. 151 – Desertion in the UK during World War 1

Listen
Ep 150 Eight Col Sir Hew Strachan
2 March 2020
Podcast Guest: Prof. Sir Hew Strachan

Ep. 150 – War without End

Listen
Screenshot 2020 07 23 At 133021
24 February 2020
Podcast Guest: Vanessa Holburn

Ep. 149 – The Amritsar Massacre

Listen
Ep 148 17961
17 February 2020
Podcast Guest: John Cornwell

Ep. 148 – The First and the Last of the Sheffield City Battalion

Listen
Ep 147 1917 Feb May E Company No 4 Officer Cadet Battalion 21 Copy 2
10 February 2020
Podcast Guest: Charles Fair

Ep. 147 – Officer Cadet Battalions

Listen
YMCA.
3 February 2020
Podcast Guest: Kathryn White

Ep. 146 – The YMCA during WW1

Listen
Screenshot 2020 07 23 At 133932
27 January 2020
Podcast Guest: Alan Gow & Robert Jardine

Ep. 145 – Stories from the Bo’ness War Memorial

Listen
Ep 144 Poster For The British West Indies Regiment Showing A Small Portrait Of King George V 1915 Loc
20 January 2020
Podcast Guest: Tony T

Ep. 144 - British West Indies Regiment and the Taranto 1918 Mutiny

Listen
H3384 L376777666 Original
13 January 2020
Podcast Guest: Dr Ann-Marie Foster

Ep. 143 – Veterans, Families, Museums and Mementos of the FWW

Listen
Somme Film Ad
6 January 2020
Podcast Guest: Dr Toby Haggith

Ep. 142 – The Battle of the Somme Film

Listen
Heugh Battery Entrance Geograph 1608024 D676d49f By Andrew Curtis
16 December 2019
Podcast Guest: Diane Stephens

Ep. 141 – The Heugh Battery in the Great War

Listen
Ep 140 Cover Opopopopo
9 December 2019
Podcast Guest: David Laws

Ep. 140 – Who Killed Kitchener?

Listen
Ep 139 Cover
2 December 2019
Podcast Guest: Susan Laffey

Ep. 139 – Bilsdale in the Great War

Listen
IOLC
25 November 2019
Podcast Guest: Pratap Chhetri

Ep. 138 – The Indian Labour Corps in WW1

Listen
Ep 137 18491
18 November 2019
Podcast Guest: Prof. Gary Sheffield

Ep. 137 – The letters of Douglas Haig and Hugo De Pree

Listen
Ep 136 41V0fpohdll Sx310 Bo1204203200
11 November 2019
Podcast Guest: Dr Rachel Duffett

Ep. 136 – Food in the trenches

Listen
Rem Scar
4 November 2019
Podcast Guest: Dr Michael Reeve

Ep. 135 – North East Coastal Communities during the Great War

Listen
Images (8)
28 October 2019
Podcast Guest: Dr Helen Brooks & Dr Pip Gregory

Ep. 134 – Bainsfather’s ‘Other ‘ole’ cartoon

Listen