Since February 2017 to end of September 2020, 178 episodes of the podcast have been broadcast.
The podcast is available on a range of Apple and Android platforms through apps such as iTunes, Acast, Spotify, Castbox. Stitcher and TuneIn.
Between the launch of the podcast on 13 February, 2017 and the end of September 2020, podcast episodes have been downloaded 318,310 times. These figures are made up of two elements:
• Complete downloads – a person listened to the whole of the podcast.
• Partial downloads (known as 206 hits) – a person only listened to a part of the podcast because their connection was disrupted or they chose not to listen.
To date (30 September 2020), there have been 115,227 complete downloads and 203,083 partial downloads. The average number of downloads per programme is 1,788. May 2020 saw the highest number of downloads at 15,104.
Monthly downloads are shown below from February 2017 to the end of September 2020.
The number of hits that have been received by each podcast episode by the end of September 2020 is listed below.
Release |
Title |
Total |
28/09/2020 |
Ep177 – Law and War in Australia during WW1 – Dr Catherine Bond |
448 |
21/09/2020 |
Ep176 – 1 million rounds from a Vickers’ gun in 12 hours: myth or truth? Dr Rich Willis & Richard Fisher |
899 |
14/09/2020 |
Ep175 – Australian POWs during WW1 – Dr Aaron Pegram |
742 |
07/09/2020 |
Ep174 – Ypres and its meaning through time – Prof Mark Connelly & Dr Stefan Goebel |
1280 |
10/08/2020 |
Ep173 – The Chemists’ War 1914-18 – Dr Michael Freemantle |
1440 |
03/08/2020 |
Ep172 – Sevenoaks in the Great War – Matthew Ball |
1079 |
27/07/2020 |
Ep171 – The 58th (London) Division – David Martin |
889 |
20/07/2020 |
Ep170 – Louis Botha, South African PM during WW1 – Prof. Ian Van Der Waag & Dr Tony Garcia |
965 |
13/07/2020 |
Ep169 – The Sandringham Company – Neil Storey |
1013 |
06/07/2020 |
Ep168 – Operation Alias – David Tattersfield |
895 |
29/06/2020 |
Ep167 – Women as Veterans in post-WW1 France and Britain – Prof. Alison Fell |
845 |
22/06/2020 |
Ep166 – Washington in the GW – Peter Welsh |
1163 |
15/06/2020 |
Ep165 – The Great War Centenary Battlefields programme – Simon Bendry |
836 |
08/06/2020 |
Ep164 – The First Gurkha Officer – Pratap Chhetri |
1559 |
01/06/2020 |
Ep163 – Tom Barry – British WW1 soldier to IRA leader – Gerry White |
1100 |
25/05/2020 |
Ep162 – Combat, identity and power in the Indian Army during WW1 – Prof. Kate Imy |
1174 |
18/05/2020 |
Ep161 – Civilian Internment in WW1 – Prof Matthew Stibbe |
1159 |
11/05/2020 |
Ep160 – The 2nd Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment in FWW – Nigel Atter |
1100 |
04/05/2020 |
Ep159 – The 2nd Inniskillings at Festubert, 1915 – Michael Nugent |
1186 |
27/04/2020 |
Ep158- The German Zeppelin Offensive and Propaganda – David Marks |
1270 |
20/04/2020 |
Ep157 – Responses of Irish Jesuits to the end of WW1 – Damien Burke |
1039 |
13/04/2020 |
Ep156 – The Indian Army in the GW – Dr Adam Prime |
1343 |
06/04/2020 |
Ep155 – London during WW1 – Prof. Jerry White |
1352 |
30/03/2020 |
Ep154 – Rugbians at War – Dan Mclean |
1419 |
23/03/2020 |
Ep153 – The 66th (East Lancs) Division During the German Spring Offensive – David Martin |
1101 |
16/03/2020 |
Ep152 – Defence of Trinity College during the Easter Rising – Dr Rory Sweetman |
1084 |
09/03/2020 |
Ep151 – Desertion in the UK during WW1 – Andrea Hetherington |
1429 |
02/03/2020 |
Ep150 – War without End – Prof. Sir Hew Strachan |
1672 |
24/02/2020 |
Ep149 – The Amritsar Massacre – Vanessa Holburn |
1275 |
17/02/2020 |
Ep148 – The First and the Last of the Sheffield City Bn – John Cornwell |
1409 |
10/02/2020 |
Ep147 – Officer Cadet Battalions – Charles Fair |
1176 |
03/02/2020 |
Ep146 – The YMCA during WW1 – Kathryn White |
1039 |
27/01/2020 |
Ep145 – Stories from the Bo’ness War Memorial – Alan Gow & Robert Jardine |
1386 |
20/01/2020 |
Ep144 – British West Indies Regiment and the Taranto 1918 Mutiny – Tony T |
758 |
13/01/2020 |
Ep143 – Veterans, Families, Museums and Mementos of the FWW – Dr Ann-Marie Foster |
1030 |
06/01/2020 |
Ep142 – The Battle of the Somme Film – Dr Toby Haggith |
1422 |
09/12/2019 |
Ep141 – The Heugh Battery in the Great War – Diane Stephens |
1541 |
02/12/2019 |
Ep140 – Who Killed Kitchener? – David Laws |
1935 |
25/11/2019 |
Ep139 – Bilsdale in the Great War – Susan Laffey |
1567 |
18/11/2019 |
Ep138 – The Indian Labour Corps in WW1 – Pratap Chhetri |
1572 |
11/11/2019 |
Ep137 – The letters of Douglas Haig and Hugo De Pree – Prof. Gary Sheffield |
1275 |
04/11/2019 |
Ep136 – Food in the trenches – Dr Rachel Duffett |
2092 |
28/10/2019 |
Ep135 – North East Coastal Communities during the Great War – Dr Michael Reeve |
1367 |
21/10/2019 |
Ep134 – Bainsfather’s ‘Other ‘ole’ cartoon – Dr Helen Brooks & Dr Pip Gregory |
1820 |
14/10/2019 |
Ep133 – African American Servicemen during WW1 – Dr Amanda Nagel |
1992 |
07/10/2019 |
Ep132 – A Lord Lieutenant at War – Dr Richard Batten |
1339 |
30/09/2019 |
Ep131 – The 51st Highland Division – Colin Campbell |
3101 |
23/09/2019 |
Ep130 – Sex on the Western Front – Dr Bruce Cherry |
2470 |
16/09/2019 |
Ep129 – Sabaton’s Great War Album – Pär Sundström |
1759 |
09/09/2019 |
Ep128 – Serbia in the Great War – Dr Samuel Foster |
2848 |
02/09/2019 |
Ep127 – The 1914 Afrikaner Rebellion – Emile Coetzee |
2396 |
05/08/2019 |
Ep126 – The First World War in Computer Games – Dr Chris Kempshall |
3554 |
29/07/2019 |
Ep125 – The 1914-5 Campaign in German SW Africa – Antonio Garcia |
2905 |
22/07/2019 |
Ep124 – Archibald Wavell – William Franklin |
2640 |
15/07/2019 |
Ep123 – British veterans’ responses to Peace Day, 19 July 1919 – Mike Hally |
2361 |
08/07/2019 |
Ep122 – The Welsh Walter Mitty – Marietta Crichton Stuart |
2726 |
01/07/2019 |
Ep121 – Communications and British Operations on the Western Front – Dr Brian Hall |
2802 |
24/06/2019 |
Ep120 – Popular responses to the outbreak of WW1 – Prof Catriona Pennell |
2961 |
17/06/2019 |
Ep119 – The Chinese Labour Corps – Wenlan Peng |
3268 |
10/06/2019 |
Ep118 – British, French and American Relations on the Western Front, 1914-1918 – Dr Chris Kempshall |
4433 |
03/06/2019 |
Ep117 – Post War Mutinies in the British Army – Dr William Butler |
3348 |
27/05/2019 |
Ep116 – The Connaught Rangers Mutiny in 1920 – Dr Mario Draper |
3215 |
20/05/2019 |
Ep115 – English infantryman’s morale and the perception of crisis on the Western Front – Dr Alex Mayhew |
4224 |
13/05/2019 |
Ep114 – Chaplains and religion on the Western Front – Dr Martin Purdy |
2768 |
06/05/2019 |
Ep113 – The Ulster Division during the German Spring Offensive – Michael Nugent |
2922 |
29/04/2019 |
Ep112 – Humour in British literature during the Great War – Dr Emily Anderson |
2905 |
22/04/2019 |
Ep111 – L/Cpl Wijnand “Vic” Hamman, 2nd South African Regt – Emile Coetzee |
2431 |
15/04/2019 |
Ep110 – British Territorials in India – Prof Peter Stanley |
2404 |
08/04/2019 |
Ep109 – Operation Delta – Dr Bill Stewart |
2273 |
01/04/2019 |
Ep108 – Nobody of Any Importance – Phil Sutcliffe |
2544 |
25/03/2019 |
Ep107 – The Berlin Philharmonic & London Symphony Orchestras in WW1 – Percy Leung |
2599 |
18/03/2019 |
Ep106 -The Impact of the First World War on Australian-British relations – Dr Jack Davies |
2570 |
11/03/2019 |
Ep105 – Researching British Officers in WW1 – Prof. Michael Durey |
2582 |
04/03/2019 |
Ep104 – The Salonika Front – Alan Wakefield |
2493 |
25/02/2019 |
Ep103 – The impact of military service for women who served in WW1 – Jane Clarke |
2328 |
18/02/2019 |
Ep102 – British Infantry Training during WW1 – Harry Sanderson |
3122 |
11/02/2019 |
Ep101 – The Treatment of Mentally Ill Irish Ex-servicemen After WW1 – Dr Michael Robinson |
2352 |
04/02/2019 |
Ep100 – Reflections on the Great War Centenary and Historiography – Prof. Peter Simkins |
2315 |
28/01/2019 |
Ep99 – The German Army in 1918 – Jack Sheldon |
2902 |
21/01/2019 |
Ep98 – Australian Corps Operations during the Hundred Days – Richard Stobo |
2610 |
14/01/2019 |
Ep97 – Witnessing the End of the German Occupation of Brussels,1918 – Prof Tammy Proctor |
2215 |
07/01/2019 |
Ep96 – Lawrence of Arabia – Dr John Peaty |
2800 |
17/12/2018 |
Ep95 – The Rise of Sir William Robertson – Ross Beadle |
3483 |
10/12/2018 |
Ep94 – The Great War Pension Record Cards – David Tattersfield |
2615 |
03/12/2018 |
Ep93 – Willie Redmond MP – John Green |
2617 |
26/11/2018 |
Ep92 – Public School Great War Memorials – Sarah Wearne |
2287 |
19/11/2018 |
Ep91 – The morale of the Italian army in WW1 – Dr Vanda Wilcox |
2341 |
12/11/2018 |
Ep90 – The Portuguese Expeditionary Force in WW1 – Miguel Freire |
2460 |
05/11/2018 |
Ep89 – Civilian Volunteers during WW1 – Dr Sally White |
2806 |
29/10/2018 |
Ep88 – The 10th (Irish) Division – Dr Stephen Sandford |
2435 |
22/10/2018 |
Ep87 – Conscientious Objectors in WW1 – Gerry Barton |
2573 |
15/10/2018 |
Ep86 – Dublin’s Great Wars, 1912-23 – Prof. Richard Grayson |
1997 |
08/10/2018 |
Ep85 – Women of Aktion – female activists in the German 1918 Revolution – Prof. Ingrid |
2203 |
01/10/2018 |
Ep84 – The British Army on the Western Front in 1916 – Dr Spencer Jones |
3642 |
27/09/2018 |
Ep83 – Wilfred Owen – Dr Kate Kennedy |
2862 |
24/09/2018 |
Ep82a – Extra Episode – The Capture of the Riqueval Bridge – Jim Tanner |
3438 |
17/09/2018 |
Ep82 – Force Feeding in WW1 – Dr Ian Miller |
1755 |
10/09/2018 |
Ep81 – ‘Haig’s tower of strength’ – General Sir Edward Bulfin – John Powell |
2216 |
03/09/2018 |
Ep80 – The Landing in the Dawn – dissecting the Anzac Gallipoli legend – Dr James Hurst |
3160 |
27/08/2018 |
Ep79 – Uppingham public school during WW1 – Tim Halstead |
2193 |
20/08/2018 |
Ep78 – The Second British Army during the Liberation of Flanders in 1918 – Dr Dennis Williams |
2497 |
13/08/2018 |
Ep77 – The Third Battle of the Aisne 1918 – David Blanchard |
2519 |
06/08/2018 |
Ep76 – Canadian nurses’ Great War narratives – Andrea McKenzie |
2149 |
30/07/2018 |
Ep75 – Tubby Clayton – Dr Linda Parker |
2118 |
23/07/2018 |
Ep74 – The British Tommy in 1918 – Taff Gillingham |
3154 |
16/07/2018 |
Ep73 – Learning to fight – Military innovation in the British Army in WW1 – Dr Aimee Fox |
2508 |
09/07/2018 |
Ep72 – British POWs in Germany during WW1 – Dr Oliver Wilkinson |
2536 |
02/07/2018 |
Ep71 – From Docks and Sand – The 7th Battalion Liverpool Regiment in WW1 – Dr Adrian Gregson |
2206 |
25/06/2018 |
Ep70 – The Last Battle – Endgame on the Western Front 1918 – Peter Hart |
2337 |
18/06/2018 |
Ep69 – The German 1918 Spring Offensives – Dr Jonathan Boff |
2889 |
11/06/2018 |
Ep68 – The British Manpower Crisis of 1918 – Dr Alison Hines |
2558 |
04/06/2018 |
Ep67 – Kriegsgefangen in Skipton – Anne Buckley |
2117 |
28/05/2018 |
Ep66 – The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu – Kenneth C. Davis |
2015 |
21/05/2018 |
Ep65 – Major Discoveries on the Western Front – David Tattersfield |
2057 |
14/05/2018 |
Ep64 – The London Irish in the Great War – Richard O’Sullivan |
1938 |
07/05/2018 |
Ep63 – Blockade, economic warfare and the use of hunger during the Great War – Sir Hew Strachan |
1988 |
30/04/2018 |
Ep62 – King George V during the Great War – Alexandra Churchill |
2359 |
23/04/2018 |
Ep61 – D.H. Lawrence and the Great War – Dr Andrew Humphries |
1890 |
16/04/2018 |
Ep60 – Wherever the firing line extends – Ronan McGreevy |
1371 |
09/04/2018 |
Ep59 – British Widows of the First World War – Andrea Hetherington |
1727 |
02/04/2018 |
Ep58 – Woodbine Willie – Dr Linda Parker |
1786 |
26/03/2018 |
Ep57 – The Great War Contribution of the Punjabi village of Dulmial, Pakistan – Dr Irfan Malik |
1721 |
19/03/2018 |
Ep56 – Resisting Conscription: the Appeals Tribunals in Middlesex – Carol Henderson |
1913 |
12/03/2018 |
Ep55 – Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria – Dr Jonathan Boff |
1746 |
05/03/2018 |
Ep54 – The Confessions of a Battlefield Tour Guide – Clive Harris |
1914 |
26/02/2018 |
Ep53 – Nannies and the Great War – Louise Heren |
1551 |
19/02/2018 |
Ep52 – Cambridge Communities in the Great War – Joanna Costin |
1444 |
12/02/2018 |
Ep51 – The Wirral in the Great War – Stephen Roberts |
1621 |
05/02/2018 |
Ep50 – The London Regiment before the Great War – Charles Fair & Tom Thorpe |
2515 |
29/01/2018 |
Ep49 – The 48th Division, 1908-1918 – Dr K.W. Mitchinson |
1514 |
22/01/2018 |
Ep48 – The Hindenburg Line – Clive Harris |
1928 |
15/01/2018 |
Ep47 – The Chinese Labour Corps – Dr Spenser Jones |
1626 |
08/01/2018 |
Ep46 – Photographing the Fallen – Jeremy Gordon-Smith |
1733 |
11/12/2017 |
Ep45 – Dublin’s Great Wars: Parallel Stories 1912-1923 – Prof. Richard Grayson |
923 |
04/12/2017 |
Ep44 – The Yanks are Coming! The AEF in WW1 – John Lee |
2159 |
27/11/2017 |
Ep43 – The Half Shilling Curate – Sarah Reay |
1478 |
20/11/2017 |
Ep42 – What did you do in the Great War, Grandfather? – Charles Barrington |
414 |
13/11/2017 |
Ep41 – The Canadians on the Somme – Dr William Stewart |
1510 |
04/11/2017 |
Ep40 – Marjorie’s War – Charles Fair |
1172 |
30/10/2017 |
Ep39 – The 8th Lincolns at Loos – Nigel Atter |
1335 |
23/10/2017 |
Ep38 – Spying for the Kaiser – Regina Diana and espionage in France – Dr Vivien Newman |
1357 |
16/10/2017 |
Ep37 – Dr Harold Gillies and plastic surgery during WW1 – Dr Andrew Bamji |
1424 |
09/10/2017 |
Ep36 – A subaltern on the Western Front – John Rigby-Jones |
1402 |
02/10/2017 |
Ep35 – The Doughboys, 1917-8 – Michael St Maur Sheil |
1309 |
25/09/2017 |
Ep34 – Shellshock in World War 1 – Dr Stefanie Linden |
1279 |
18/09/2017 |
Ep33 – The “Spanish Flu” Pandemic 1917-19 – Dr Jane Orr |
1459 |
11/09/2017 |
Ep32 – Brigadier General Frank Crozier – Charles Messenger |
1128 |
04/09/2017 |
Ep31 – Women in Britain and Europe during the Great War – Dr Vivien Newman |
1151 |
28/08/2017 |
Ep30 – Joseph Steward’s Platoon – Andy Robertshaw |
1075 |
21/08/2017 |
Ep29 – Commemoration of the Great War in Ireland – Dr Chris Manson |
819 |
15/08/2017 |
Ep28 – Military Recruitment in Ireland, 1916 – Dr William Butler |
794 |
07/08/2017 |
Ep27 – Black Watch volunteers in Dublin before the First World War – Ian Montgomery |
225 |
31/07/2017 |
Ep26 – Beyond the Somme – West Belfast’s Somme service in context – Prof Richard Grayson |
901 |
24/07/2017 |
Ep25 – Major General Nugent, the Ulster Division and their army commanders in 1916 – Nicholas Perry |
1006 |
18/07/2017 |
The First Battle of the Scarpe (Arras) April 1917 – Jim Smithson |
1131 |
10/07/2017 |
The Auxiliaries in Ireland’s War of Independence – Paul O’Brien |
955 |
08/07/2017 |
Donegall Pass Heroes of the Great War Project – Ron McMurray |
766 |
03/07/2017 |
Jutland and the Meaning of Victory – Prof Andrew Lambert |
1071 |
26/06/2017 |
Sniping in the Great War – Martin Pegler |
1013 |
19/06/2017 |
Animals in the Great War – Lucinda Moore |
921 |
12/06/2017 |
Passchendaele – Dr Nick Lloyd |
1222 |
07/06/2017 |
Psychological survival in the trenches – Dr Peter Hodgkinson |
1068 |
06/05/2017 |
The Myths of the Irish at Messines – Dr Tim Bowman |
863 |
29/05/2017 |
The Island of Ireland and the Great War in Flanders – Piet Chielens from In Flanders Fields Museum |
662 |
22/05/2017 |
General Fox Conner and the American Expeditionary Force in WW1 – Steven Rabalais |
953 |
15/05/2017 |
The Great War tea stall at Peterborough East Station |
780 |
08/05/2017 |
The Diary of a Belgian Priest – 1917 with the British in Ypres – Dominiek Dendooven |
835 |
01/05/2017 |
Winning with Laughter – Cartoonists in the Great War – Luci Gosling |
686 |
28/04/2017 |
Battlefield tourism on the Western Front – Dr Stephen Miles |
904 |
24/04/2017 |
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps – Dr Samantha Philo-Gill |
784 |
05/04/2017 |
The Great War’s influence on popular music – Dr Peter Grant |
721 |
05/04/2017 |
Irish Soldiers in 1917 – Philip Pratley |
994 |
05/04/2017 |
British Staff in 1917 – Dr Paul Harris |
839 |
05/04/2017 |
French tanks in 1917 – Dr Tim Gale |
661 |
01/03/2017 |
The Honourable Artillery Company in 1917 – Michael Orr |
775 |
13/02/2017 |
Stately Homes and Cartoons in WW1 |
735 |
13/02/2017 |
Mentioned in Dispatches Ep2 from the Western Front Association |
910 |
13/02/2017 |
Mentioned in Dispatches Ep.1 from the Western Front Association |
1057 |