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.

Isonzo
23 May 2022
Podcast Guest: Joe Hoebe

Ep.256 - Fighting at the Battle of Isonzo on your computer

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Football's Great War
16 May 2022
Podcast Guest: Dr Alexander Jackson

Ep.255 – Association Football on the Home Front

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Peace Mug
9 May 2022
Podcast Guest: Giles Penman

Ep.254 – 1919 Peace Day Mugs & Medals

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The Kaiser During The Great War
2 May 2022
Podcast Guest: Prof Matt Fitzpatrick

Ep.253 – The Kaiser during the Great War

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Joy Porter Book
25 April 2022
Podcast Guest: Prof Joy Porter

Ep.252 – Frank Prewett and the Great War

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The Approaching Storm
18 April 2022
Podcast Guest: Dr Neil Lanctot

Ep.251 – Debating America’s response to the Great War

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Command On The Western Front
11 April 2022
Podcast Guest: Prof. Robin Prior

Ep.250a – Sir Henry Rawlinson

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The Western Front – Prof Nick Lloyd
11 April 2022
Podcast Guest: Prof Nick Lloyd

Ep.250b – The Western Front

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The Illustrated Chronicle During The First World War – Peter Welsh
4 April 2025
Podcast Guest: Peter Welsh

Ep.249 – The Illustrated Chronicle during the First World War

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Of No Earthly Use
28 March 2022
Podcast Guest: Dr Bill Mitchinson

Ep.248 – 2nd line Territorial Force Divisions in the First World War

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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 WW1

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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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