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The Western Front Association's podcasts 'Mentioned in Dispatches' with Dr Tom Thorpe 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. 133 – African American Servicemen during WW1 – Dr Amanda Nagel

Amanda Nagel PhD, Assistant Professor of Military History at the School of Advanced Military Stud...

Ep. 132 – A Lord Lieutenant at War – Dr Richard Batten

Dr Richard Batten, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, talks about a collection...

Ep. 131 – The 51st Highland Division – Colin Campbell

Colin Campbell about his book on the 51st Highland Division during the Great War that has been re...

Ep. 130 – Sex on the Western Front – Dr Bruce Cherry

Dr Bruce Cherry talks about his book on the sex life of the Tommy on the Western Front, They Didn...

Ep. 129 – Sabaton’s Great War Album – Pär Sundström

Pär Sundström, bass player in the Swedish heavy metal band Sabaton, talks about their new album,...

Ep. 128 – Serbia in the Great War – Dr Samuel Foster

Dr Samuel Foster, Visiting Academic in the School of History, University of East Anglia, talks ab...

Ep. 127 – The 1914 Afrikaner Rebellion – Emile Coetzee

Emile Coetzee, from North West University in South Africa, talks about the 1914 Afrikaner Rebelli...

Ep. 126 – The First World War in Computer Games – Dr Chris Kempshall

In this fascinating podcast Dr Chris Kempshall shares two of his enthusiasms: history and compute...

Ep. 125 – The 1914-5 Campaign in German SW Africa – Antonio Garcia

Antonio Garcia talks about his recent book on the South African campaign against German South Wes...

Ep. 124 – Archibald Wavell – William Franklin

William Franklin talks about the First World War career of Archibald Wavell....

Ep. 123 – British veterans’ responses to Peace Day, 19 July 1919 – Mike...

Mike Hally, PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh, discusses his research into veterans’ r...

Ep. 122 – The Welsh Walter Mitty – Marietta Crichton Stuart

Marietta Crichton Stuart talks about Percy Shuttlewood who served in her grandfather’s battalion...