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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.

Gas Drill. Indian Army
21 March 2022
Podcast Guest: Dr Gavin Rand

Ep. 247 – The Punjab Record Project

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Centre For Experimental Military Archaeology And The Great War – Andy Robertshaw
14 March 2022
Podcast Guest: Andy Robertshaw

Ep. 246 – Centre for Experimental Military Archaeology and the Great War

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Antrim
7 March 2022
Podcast Guest: Brian Feeney

Ep. 245 – Antrim and the Irish Revolution, 1912 – 23

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Sabaton
4 March 2022
Podcast Guest: Joakim Brodén

Ep244a – The War to End all Wars

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A Legacy Of WW1 – Hindenburg, Ludendorff And Hitler – Alex Clifford
28 February 2022
Podcast Guest: Alex Clifford

Ep. 244 – A legacy of WW1 – Hindenburg, Ludendorff and Hitler

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Bad Characters
21 February 2022
Podcast Guest: Prof Peter Stanley

Ep. 243 – Discipline in the AIF in World War 1

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The Receiving Room
14 February 2022
Podcast Guest: Frances Hurd

Ep. 242 - Sex, Violence and Alcohol: some after-effects of the Great War

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Skylarcs
7 February 2022
Podcast Guest: Simon Verdegem

Ep. 241 - Lost But Not forgotten. The Archaeological Recovery of First World War Casualties

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Two Stretcher Bearers
31 January 2022
Podcast Guest: Dr Emily Mayhew

Ep. 240 - Stretcher Bearers on the Western Front

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Roscommon
24 January 2022
Podcast Guest: Dr John Burke

Ep. 239 - Roscommon During the Great War and After

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Betrayed Ally
17 January 2022
Podcast Guest: Frances Wood

Ep. 238 – China and the Great War

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Missing But Not Forgotten
10 January 2022
Podcast Guest: Pam & Ken Linge

Ep. 237 - Missing But Not Forgotten: Men of the Thiepval Memorial

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Battle Of Flers–Courcelette.
3 January 2022
Podcast Guest: Richard Hendry

Ep. 236 - The 47th Division at High Wood, 1916

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Teachers At The Front
13 December 2021
Podcast Guest: Dr Barry Blades

Ep. 235 - Teachers During the Great War

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Men Under Fire
6 December 2021
Podcast Guest: Dr Jiri Hutečka

Ep. 234 - Czech Soldiers in the First World War

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A Moonlight Massacre
29 November 2021
Podcast Guest: Dr Michael LoCicero

Ep. 233 - Moonlight Massacre at 3rd Ypres

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CWG
22 November 2021
Podcast Guest: Dr George Hay

Ep. 232 - The CWGC Non-Commemoration Report on Inequalities of Commemoration

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Yugoslavia
15 November 2021
Podcast Guest: Dr Samuel Foster

Ep. 231 - Yugoslavia in the British imagination during the First World War

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Stacking The Coffins
8 November 2021
Podcast Guest: Dr Ida Milne

Ep. 230 - 'Staking the coffins' – the 1918 flu Epidemic in Ireland

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Jan Smuts
1 November 2021
Podcast Guest: David Katz

Ep. 229 - Jan Smuts and the German East African Campaign

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