Activity report for the Mentioned in Dispatches podcast, February 2017 to end of July 2021

Since February 2017 to end of July 2021, 220 episodes of the podcast have been broadcast and 413,890 downloads achieved.

The average number of downloads per programme is 1,881.

The activity over the last four years is shown below.

The number of downloads per show is set out below in decending order of popularity.

Episode #	Title	Release	Total
118	Ep118 – British, French and American Relations on the Western Front, 1914-1918 – Dr Chris Kempshall	10/06/2019	4904
115	Ep115 – English infantryman’s morale and the perception of crisis on the Western Front – Dr Alex Mayhew	20/05/2019	4576
84	Ep84 – The British Army on the Western Front in 1916 – Dr Spencer Jones	01/10/2018	3942
126	Ep126 – The First World War in Computer Games – Dr Chris Kempshall	05/08/2019	3858
117	Ep117 – Post War Mutinies in the British Army – Dr William Butler	03/06/2019	3812
95	Ep95 – The Rise of Sir William Robertson – Ross Beadle	17/12/2018	3698
116	Ep116 – The Connaught Rangers Mutiny in 1920 – Dr Mario Draper	27/05/2019	3604
82a	Ep82a – Extra Episode – The Capture of the Riqueval Bridge – Jim Tanner	24/09/2018	3592
131	Ep131 – The 51st Highland Division – Colin Campbell	30/09/2019	3537
119	Ep119 – The Chinese Labour Corps – Wenlan Peng	17/06/2019	3526
120	Ep120 – Popular responses to the outbreak of WW1 – Prof Catriona Pennell	24/06/2019	3456
80	Ep80 – The Landing in the Dawn – dissecting the Anzac Gallipoli legend – Dr James Hurst	03/09/2018	3383
74	Ep74 – The British Tommy in 1918 – Taff Gillingham	23/07/2018	3351
102	Ep102 – British Infantry Training during WW1 – Harry Sanderson	18/02/2019	3330
125	Ep125 – The 1914-5 Campaign in German SW Africa – Antonio Garcia	29/07/2019	3231
69	Ep69 – The German 1918 Spring Offensives – Dr Jonathan Boff	18/06/2018	3209
128	Ep128 – Serbia in the Great War – Dr Samuel Foster	09/09/2019	3204
99	Ep99 – The German Army in 1918 – Jack Sheldon	28/01/2019	3168
113	Ep113 – The Ulster Division during the German Spring Offensive – Michael Nugent	06/05/2019	3139
121	Ep121 – Communications and British Operations on the Western Front – Dr Brian Hall	01/07/2019	3117
112	Ep112 – Humour in British literature during the Great War – Dr Emily Anderson	29/04/2019	3099
83	Ep83 – Wilfred Owen – Dr Kate Kennedy	27/09/2018	3097
96	Ep96 – Lawrence of Arabia – Dr John Peaty	07/01/2019	3095
122	Ep122 – The Welsh Walter Mitty – Marietta Crichton Stuart	08/07/2019	3091
89	Ep89 – Civilian Volunteers during WW1 – Dr Sally White	05/11/2018	3026
114	Ep114 – Chaplains and religion on the Western Front – Dr Martin Purdy	13/05/2019	2989
124	Ep124 – Archibald Wavell – William Franklin	22/07/2019	2906
130	Ep130 – Sex on the Western Front – Dr Bruce Cherry	23/09/2019	2879
94	Ep94 – The Great War Pension Record Cards – David Tattersfield	10/12/2018	2852
98	Ep98 – Australian Corps Operations during the Hundred Days – Richard Stobo	21/01/2019	2846
107	Ep107 – The Berlin Philharmonic & London Symphony Orchestras in WW1 – Percy Leung	25/03/2019	2838
105	Ep105 – Researching British Officers in WW1 – Prof. Michael Durey	11/03/2019	2811
93	Ep93 – Willie Redmond MP – John Green	03/12/2018	2810
87	Ep87 – Conscientious Objectors in WW1 – Gerry Barton	22/10/2018	2780
106	Ep106 -The Impact of the First World War on Australian-British relations – Dr Jack Davies	18/03/2019	2758
108	Ep108 – Nobody of Any Importance – Phil Sutcliffe	01/04/2019	2738
104	Ep104 – The Salonika Front – Alan Wakefield	04/03/2019	2728
72	Ep72 – British POWs in Germany during WW1 – Dr Oliver Wilkinson	09/07/2018	2709
77	Ep77 – The Third Battle of the Aisne 1918 – David Blanchard	13/08/2018	2705
68	Ep68 – The British Manpower Crisis of 1918 – Dr Alison Hines	11/06/2018	2702
111	Ep111 – L/Cpl Wijnand “Vic” Hamman, 2nd South African Regt – Emile Coetzee	22/04/2019	2676
78	Ep78 – The Second British Army during the Liberation of Flanders in 1918 – Dr Dennis Williams	20/08/2018	2662
73	Ep73 – Learning to fight – Military innovation in the British Army in WW1 – Dr Aimee Fox	16/07/2018	2659
88	Ep88 – The 10th (Irish) Division – Dr Stephen Sandford	29/10/2018	2651
127	Ep127 – The 1914 Afrikaner Rebellion – Emile Coetzee	02/09/2019	2641
50	Ep50 – The London Regiment before the Great War – Charles Fair & Tom Thorpe	05/02/2018	2640
90	Ep90 – The Portuguese Expeditionary Force in WW1 – Miguel Freire	12/11/2018	2629
123	Ep123 – British veterans’ responses to Peace Day, 19 July 1919 – Mike Hally	15/07/2019	2626
91	Ep91 – The morale of the Italian army in WW1 – Dr Vanda Wilcox	19/11/2018	2582
110	Ep110 – British Territorials in India – Prof Peter Stanley	15/04/2019	2573
70	Ep70 – The Last Battle – Endgame on the Western Front 1918 – Peter Hart	25/06/2018	2566
101	Ep101 – The Treatment of Mentally Ill Irish Ex-servicemen After WW1 – Dr Michael Robinson	11/02/2019	2556
100	Ep100 – Reflections on the Great War Centenary and Historiography – Prof. Peter Simkins	04/02/2019	2542
136	Ep136 – Food in the trenches – Dr Rachel Duffett	04/11/2019	2504
103	Ep103 – The impact of military service for women who served in WW1 – Jane Clarke	25/02/2019	2492
109	Ep109 – Operation Delta – Dr Bill Stewart	08/04/2019	2472
92	Ep92 – Public School Great War Memorials – Sarah Wearne	26/11/2018	2448
85	Ep85 – Women of Aktion – female activists in the German 1918 Revolution – Prof. Ingrid	08/10/2018	2439
133	Ep133 – African American Servicemen during WW1 – Dr Amanda Nagel	14/10/2019	2426
97	Ep97 – Witnessing the End of the German Occupation of Brussels,1918 – Prof Tammy Proctor	14/01/2019	2422
79	Ep79 – Uppingham public school during WW1 – Tim Halstead	27/08/2018	2409
81	Ep81 – ‘Haig’s tower of strength’ – General Sir Edward Bulfin – John Powell	10/09/2018	2396
44	Ep44 – The Yanks are Coming! The AEF in WW1 – John Lee	04/12/2017	2380
71	Ep71 – From Docks and Sand – The 7th Battalion Liverpool Regiment in WW1 – Dr Adrian Gregson	02/07/2018	2366
62	Ep62 – King George V during the Great War – Alexandra Churchill	30/04/2018	2359
76	Ep76 – Canadian nurses’ Great War narratives – Andrea McKenzie	06/08/2018	2312
140	Ep140 – Who Killed Kitchener? – David Laws	02/12/2019	2301
75	Ep75 – Tubby Clayton – Dr Linda Parker	30/07/2018	2268
67	Ep67 – Kriegsgefangen in Skipton – Anne Buckley	04/06/2018	2242
65	Ep65 – Major Discoveries on the Western Front – David Tattersfield	21/05/2018	2230
66	Ep66 – The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu – Kenneth C. Davis	28/05/2018	2187
86	Ep86 – Dublin’s Great Wars, 1912-23 – Prof. Richard Grayson	15/10/2018	2157
150	Ep150 – War without End – Prof. Sir Hew Strachan	02/03/2020	2155
63	Ep63 – Blockade, economic warfare and the use of hunger during the Great War – Sir Hew Strachan	07/05/2018	2153
134	Ep134 – Bainsfather’s ‘Other ‘ole’ cartoon – Dr Helen Brooks & Dr Pip Gregory	21/10/2019	2145
48	Ep48 – The Hindenburg Line – Clive Harris	22/01/2018	2145
54	Ep54 – The Confessions of a Battlefield Tour Guide – Clive Harris	05/03/2018	2095
174	Ep174 – Ypres and its meaning through time – Prof Mark Connelly & Dr Stefan Goebel	07/09/2020	2085
64	Ep64 – The London Irish in the Great War – Richard O’Sullivan	14/05/2018	2066
61	Ep61 – D.H. Lawrence and the Great War – Dr Andrew Humphries	23/04/2018	2060
56	Ep56 – Resisting Conscription: the Appeals Tribunals in Middlesex – Carol Henderson	19/03/2018	2043
82	Ep82 – Force Feeding in WW1 – Dr Ian Miller	17/09/2018	2010
164	Ep164 – The First Gurkha Officer – Pratap Chhetri	08/06/2020	1995
173	Ep173 – The Chemists’ War 1914-18 – Dr Michael Freemantle	10/08/2020	1987
129	Ep129 – Sabaton’s Great War Album – Pär Sundström	16/09/2019	1980
138	Ep138 – The Indian Labour Corps in WW1 – Pratap Chhetri	18/11/2019	1975
58	Ep58 – Woodbine Willie – Dr Linda Parker	02/04/2018	1934
59	Ep59 – British Widows of the First World War – Andrea Hetherington	09/04/2018	1897
46	Ep46 – Photographing the Fallen – Jeremy Gordon-Smith	08/01/2018	1897
141	Ep141 – The Heugh Battery in the Great War – Diane Stephens	09/12/2019	1884
151	Ep151 – Desertion in the UK during WW1 – Andrea Hetherington	09/03/2020	1871
55	Ep55 – Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria – Dr Jonathan Boff	12/03/2018	1867
57	Ep57 – The Great War Contribution of the Punjabi village of Dulmial, Pakistan – Dr Irfan Malik	26/03/2018	1824
176	Ep176 – 1 million rounds from a Vickers’ gun in 12 hours: myth or truth? Dr Rich Willis & Richard Fisher	21/09/2020	1822
139	Ep139 – Bilsdale in the Great War – Susan Laffey	25/11/2019	1809
154	Ep154 – Rugbians at War – Dan Mclean	30/03/2020	1787
179	Ep179 – German POWs on Cannock Chase – Richard Pursehouse	12/10/2020	1760
142	Ep142 – The Battle of the Somme Film – Dr Toby Haggith	06/01/2020	1755
47	Ep47 – The Chinese Labour Corps – Dr Spenser Jones	15/01/2018	1754
51	Ep51 – The Wirral in the Great War – Stephen Roberts	12/02/2018	1751
148	Ep148 – The First and the Last of the Sheffield City Bn – John Cornwell	17/02/2020	1743
155	Ep155 – London during WW1 – Prof. Jerry White	06/04/2020	1739
158	Ep158- The German Zeppelin Offensive and Propaganda – David Marks	27/04/2020	1732
135	Ep135 – North East Coastal Communities during the Great War – Dr Michael Reeve	28/10/2019	1700
53	Ep53 – Nannies and the Great War – Louise Heren	26/02/2018	1699
41	Ep41 – The Canadians on the Somme – Dr William Stewart	13/11/2017	1688
185	Ep185 – Anzacs on the WF – Dr Meleah Hampton	23/11/2020	1686
145	Ep145 – Stories from the Bo’ness War Memorial – Alan Gow & Robert Jardine	27/01/2020	1672
37	Ep37 – Dr Harold Gillies and plastic surgery during WW1 – Dr Andrew Bamji	16/10/2017	1668
156	Ep156 – The Indian Army in the GW – Dr Adam Prime	13/04/2020	1665
33	Ep33 – The “Spanish Flu” Pandemic 1917-19 – Dr Jane Orr	18/09/2017	1664
49	Ep49 – The 48th Division, 1908-1918 – Dr K.W. Mitchinson	29/01/2018	1637
132	Ep132 – A Lord Lieutenant at War – Dr Richard Batten	07/10/2019	1633
169	Ep169 – The Sandringham Company – Neil Storey	13/07/2020	1624
149	Ep149 – The Amritsar Massacre – Vanessa Holburn	24/02/2020	1615
43	Ep43 – The Half Shilling Curate – Sarah Reay	27/11/2017	1609
172	Ep172 – Sevenoaks in the Great War – Matthew Ball	03/08/2020	1604
191	Ep191 -The German occupation of France in WW1 – Dr James Connolly	18/01/2021	1589
52	Ep52 – Cambridge Communities in the Great War – Joanna Costin	19/02/2018	1586
147	Ep147 – Officer Cadet Battalions – Charles Fair	10/02/2020	1585
159	Ep159 – The 2nd Inniskillings at Festubert, 1915 – Michael Nugent	04/05/2020	1562
162	Ep162 – Combat, identity and power in the Indian Army during WW1 – Prof. Kate Imy	25/05/2020	1548
38	Ep38 – Spying for the Kaiser – Regina Diana and espionage in France – Dr Vivien Newman	23/10/2017	1548
137	Ep137 – The letters of Douglas Haig and Hugo De Pree – Prof. Gary Sheffield	11/11/2019	1545
161	Ep161 – Civilian Internment in WW1 – Prof Matthew Stibbe	18/05/2020	1540
60	Ep60 – Wherever the firing line extends – Ronan McGreevy	16/04/2018	1529
163	Ep163 – Tom Barry – British WW1 soldier to IRA leader – Gerry White	01/06/2020	1527
1	Mentioned in Dispatches Ep.1 from the Western Front Association	13/02/2017	1523
36	Ep36 – A subaltern on the Western Front – John Rigby-Jones	09/10/2017	1522
166	Ep166 – Washington in the GW – Peter Welsh	22/06/2020	1521
35	Ep35 – The Doughboys, 1917-8 – Michael St Maur Sheil	02/10/2017	1504
178	Ep178 – Irish recruitment in the GW – Dr Tim Bowman, Dr Michael Wheatley & Dr William Butler	05/10/2020	1490
18	Passchendaele – Dr Nick Lloyd	12/06/2017	1482
39	Ep39 – The 8th Lincolns at Loos – Nigel Atter	30/10/2017	1474
34	Ep34 – Shellshock in World War 1 – Dr Stefanie Linden	25/09/2017	1471
21	Jutland and the Meaning of Victory – Prof Andrew Lambert	03/07/2017	1468
170	Ep170 – Louis Botha, South African PM during WW1 – Prof. Ian Van Der Waag & Dr Tony Garcia	20/07/2020	1457
203	Ep203 – The Russian Army in WW1 – Prof. Roger Reese	12/04/2021	1427
183	Ep183 – The unknown story of the Unknown Warrior – David Scott	09/11/2020	1427
181	Ep181 – The Nivelle Offensive of 1917 – Dr David Murphy	26/10/2020	1418
198	Ep198 – Churchill and the Dardenelles – Prof. Chris Bell	08/03/2021	1408
160	Ep160 – The 2nd Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment in FWW – Nigel Atter	11/05/2020	1406
157	Ep157 – Responses of Irish Jesuits to the end of WW1 – Damien Burke	20/04/2020	1406
211	Ep211 – Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson – Dr John Spencer	07/06/2021	1393
182	Ep182 – Indian Empire at War – George Morton Jack	02/11/2020	1392
153	Ep153 – The 66th (East Lancs) Division During the German Spring Offensive – David Martin	23/03/2020	1375
168	Ep168 – Operation Alias – David Tattersfield	06/07/2020	1365
180	Ep180 – 9th Royal Scots in the GW – Neill Gilhooley	19/10/2020	1354
24	The First Battle of the Scarpe (Arras) April 1917 – Jim Smithson	18/07/2017	1343
146	Ep146 – The YMCA during WW1 – Kathryn White	03/02/2020	1336
152	Ep152 – Defence of Trinity College during the Easter Rising – Dr Rory Sweetman	16/03/2020	1334
187	Ep187 – The Police during WW1 – Dr Mary Fraser	07/12/2020	1333
175	Ep175 – Australian POWs during WW1 – Dr Aaron Pegram	14/09/2020	1329
171	Ep171 – The 58th (London) Division – David Martin	27/07/2020	1313
32	Ep32 – Brigadier General Frank Crozier – Charles Messenger	11/09/2017	1311
188	Ep188 – Military Identities of British conscripts – Joshua Bilton	14/12/2020	1308
31	Ep31 – Women in Britain and Europe during the Great War – Dr Vivien Newman	04/09/2017	1299
40	Ep40 – Marjorie’s War – Charles Fair	04/11/2017	1297
17	Psychological survival in the trenches – Dr Peter Hodgkinson	07/06/2017	1286
217	Ep217 – The Great War in the Argonne Forest – Richard Merry	19/07/2021	1282
143	Ep143 – Veterans, Families, Museums and Mementos of the FWW – Dr Ann-Marie Foster	13/01/2020	1281
177	Ep177 – Law and War in Australia during WW1 – Dr Catherine Bond	28/09/2020	1251
167	Ep167 – Women as Veterans in post-WW1 France and Britain – Prof. Alison Fell	29/06/2020	1237
165	Ep165 – The Great War Centenary Battlefields programme – Simon Bendry	15/06/2020	1237
20	Sniping in the Great War – Martin Pegler	26/06/2017	1226
190	Ep190 – Sir John Monash – Dr Aaron Pegram	11/01/2021	1206
195	Ep195 – County Kildare, 1912-1923 – Dr Seamus Cullen	15/02/2021	1205
208	Ep208 – Kitchener – Man not Myth – Dr Anne Samson	17/05/2021	1204
197	Ep197 – The 1918 German Revolution – Prof. Robert Gerwarth	01/03/2021	1204
30	Ep30 – Joseph Steward’s Platoon – Andy Robertshaw	28/08/2017	1200
2	Mentioned in Dispatches Ep2 from the Western Front Association	13/02/2017	1195
194	Ep194 – Chemical Warfare – Simon Jones	08/02/2021	1190
7	Irish Soldiers in 1917 – Philip Pratley	05/04/2017	1181
189	Ep189 – Limbless veterans after WW1 – Louise Bell	04/01/2021	1180
210	Ep210 – Major General Oliver Nugent – Nicholas Perry	31/05/2021	1154
201	Ep201 – Jan Smuts – Prof. Ian Van Der Waag & Dr Tony Garcia	29/03/2021	1143
25	Ep25 – Major General Nugent, the Ulster Division and their army commanders in 1916 – Nicholas Perry	24/07/2017	1143
196	Ep196 – Men of the AEF’s ‘lost battalion’ – Dr Edward Lengel	22/02/2021	1142
186	Ep186 – Folkestone harbour in WW1 – Peter Anderson	30/11/2020	1124
10	Battlefield tourism on the Western Front – Dr Stephen Miles	28/04/2017	1123
206	Ep206 – The North Irish Horse – Phillip Tardif	03/05/2021	1112
207	Ep207 – The General Staff – Dr Paul Harris	10/05/2021	1110
14	General Fox Conner and the American Expeditionary Force in WW1 – Steven Rabalais	22/05/2017	1091
23	The Auxiliaries in Ireland’s War of Independence – Paul O’Brien	10/07/2017	1083
192	Ep192 – ‘The Fighting Irish’ – The US 69th Infantry Regiment in WW1- Stephen L. Harris	25/01/2021	1077
19	Animals in the Great War – Lucinda Moore	19/06/2017	1072
45	Ep45 – Dublin’s Great Wars: Parallel Stories 1912-1923 – Prof. Richard Grayson	11/12/2017	1054
16	The Myths of the Irish at Messines – Dr Tim Bowman	06/05/2017	1054
6	British Staff in 1917 – Dr Paul Harris	05/04/2017	1053
213	Ep213 – General Sir Herbert Lawrence – Dr Paul Harris	21/06/2021	1052
212	Ep212 – Lt Col John Sherwood Kelly VC – Philip Bujak	14/06/2021	1050
26	Ep26 – Beyond the Somme – West Belfast’s Somme service in context – Prof Richard Grayson	31/07/2017	1048
193	Ep193 – Belgian refugees in Glasgow – Keiran Taylor	01/02/2021	1036
200	Ep200 – Logistics during the Messines-Third Ypres Campaign – Rob Thompson	22/03/2021	1034
29	Ep29 – Commemoration of the Great War in Ireland – Dr Chris Manson	21/08/2017	1025
12	The Diary of a Belgian Priest – 1917 with the British in Ypres – Dominiek Dendooven	08/05/2017	1017
215	Ep215 – The Assam Rifles in the FWW – Pratap Chhetri	05/07/2021	1013
214	Ep214 – The Anglo-Jewish Experience of the Great War	28/06/2021	996
199	Ep199 – New York’s Silk Stocking Regiment and the Breaking of the Hindenburg Line – Stephen L. Harris	15/03/2021	995
4	The Honourable Artillery Company in 1917 – Michael Orr	01/03/2017	991
3	Stately Homes and Cartoons in WW1	13/02/2017	965
209	Ep209 – Ep209 – Irish Women during the GW – Dr Fionnuala Walsh	24/05/2021	957
28	Ep28 – Military Recruitment in Ireland, 1916 – Dr William Butler	15/08/2017	935
9	Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps – Dr Samantha Philo-Gill	24/04/2017	934
207a	Ep207a – CWGC War Graves Week 2021 – Simon Bendry	16/05/2021	930
202	Ep202 – General Sir Cecil Pereira – Dr Spencer Jones	05/04/2021	926
216	Ep216 – Equipment and clothes of the RFC – Mark Hillier	12/07/2021	917
205	Ep205 -The Harlem Hellfighters in WW1 – Steven L. Harris	26/04/2021	912
13	The Great War tea stall at Peterborough East Station	15/05/2017	912
22	Donegall Pass Heroes of the Great War Project – Ron McMurray	08/07/2017	906
204	Ep204 – The Endell Street Hospital – Wendy Moore	19/04/2021	903
15	The Island of Ireland and the Great War in Flanders – Piet Chielens from In Flanders Fields Museum	29/05/2017	879
8	The Great War’s influence on popular music – Dr Peter Grant	05/04/2017	856
5	French tanks in 1917 – Dr Tim Gale	05/04/2017	827
11	Winning with Laughter – Cartoonists in the Great War – Luci Gosling	01/05/2017	813
184	Ep184 – Irish servicewomen during WW1 – Dr Barbara Walsh	16/11/2020	809
144	Ep144 – British West Indies Regiment and the Taranto 1918 Mutiny – Tony T	20/01/2020	758
218	Ep218 – Hertfordshire in the GW – Dan Hill & Paul Johnson	26/07/2021	755
42	Ep42 – What did you do in the Great War, Grandfather? – Charles Barrington	20/11/2017	496
27	Ep27 – Black Watch volunteers in Dublin before the First World War – Ian Montgomery	07/08/2017	305

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Activity report for the Mentioned in Dispatches podcast, February 2017 to end of July 2021