Downloads for the Mentioned in Dispatches podcast – to end of March 2020

Since February 2017 to end of March 2020, 154 episodes of the podcast have been broadcast.

The podcast is available on a range of Apple and Android platforms through apps such as including iTunes, Acast and Castbox. Stitcher and TuneIn.

Between the launch of the podcast on 13 February, 2017 and the end of March 2020, podcast episodes have been downloaded 256,044 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 (31 March 2020), there have been 83,610 complete downloads and 172,434 partial downloads. The average number of downloads per programme is 1,735.

Monthly downloads are shown below from February 2017 to the end of March 2020.

The total number of downloads per month from February 2017 to the end of March 2020 is shown below. The episodes are listed by total downloads in order of popularity.

Episode #	Title	Release	Total
118	Ep118 – British, French and American Relations on the Western Front, 1914-1918 – Dr Chris Kempshall	10 June 2019	4010
115	Ep115 – English infantryman’s morale and the perception of crisis on the Western Front – Dr Alex Mayhew	20 May 2019	3551
84	Ep84 – The British Army on the Western Front in 1916 – Dr Spencer Jones	01 October 2018	3396
95	Ep95 – The Rise of Sir William Robertson – Ross Beadle	17 December 2018	3236
82a	Ep82a – Extra Episode – The Capture of the Riqueval Bridge – Jim Tanner	24 September 2018	3211
126	Ep126 – The First World War in Computer Games – Dr Chris Kempshall	05 August 2019	3173
80	Ep80 – The Landing in the Dawn – dissecting the Anzac Gallipoli legend – Dr James Hurst	03 September 2018	2927
74	Ep74 – The British Tommy in 1918 – Taff Gillingham	23 July 2018	2920
102	Ep102 – British Infantry Training during WW1 – Harry Sanderson	18 February 2019	2874
117	Ep117 – Post War Mutinies in the British Army – Dr William Butler	03 June 2019	2831
119	Ep119 – The Chinese Labour Corps – Wenlan Peng	17 June 2019	2822
116	Ep116 – The Connaught Rangers Mutiny in 1920 – Dr Mario Draper	27 May 2019	2731
69	Ep69 – The German 1918 Spring Offensives – Dr Jonathan Boff	18 June 2018	2708
99	Ep99 – The German Army in 1918 – Jack Sheldon	28 January 2019	2662
83	Ep83 – Wilfred Owen – Dr Kate Kennedy	27 September 2018	2621
89	Ep89 – Civilian Volunteers during WW1 – Dr Sally White	05 November 2018	2588
96	Ep96 – Lawrence of Arabia – Dr John Peaty	07 January 2019	2585
113	Ep113 – The Ulster Division during the German Spring Offensive – Michael Nugent	06 May 2019	2548
120	Ep120 – Popular responses to the outbreak of WW1 – Prof Catriona Pennell	24 June 2019	2538
125	Ep125 – The 1914-5 Campaign in German SW Africa – Antonio Garcia	29 July 2019	2507
128	Ep128 – Serbia in the Great War – Dr Samuel Foster	09 September 2019	2498
131	Ep131 – The 51st Highland Division – Colin Campbell	30 September 2019	2485
112	Ep112 – Humour in British literature during the Great War – Dr Emily Anderson	29 April 2019	2454
114	Ep114 – Chaplains and religion on the Western Front – Dr Martin Purdy	13 May 2019	2439
93	Ep93 – Willie Redmond MP – John Green	03 December 2018	2412
94	Ep94 – The Great War Pension Record Cards – David Tattersfield	10 December 2018	2388
121	Ep121 – Communications and British Operations on the Western Front – Dr Brian Hall	01 July 2019	2387
68	Ep68 – The British Manpower Crisis of 1918 – Dr Alison Hines	11 June 2018	2379
50	Ep50 – The London Regiment before the Great War – Charles Fair & Tom Thorpe	05 February 2018	2373
78	Ep78 – The Second British Army during the Liberation of Flanders in 1918 – Dr Dennis Williams	20 August 2018	2361
72	Ep72 – British POWs in Germany during WW1 – Dr Oliver Wilkinson	09 July 2018	2359
77	Ep77 – The Third Battle of the Aisne 1918 – David Blanchard	13 August 2018	2351
105	Ep105 – Researching British Officers in WW1 – Prof. Michael Durey	11 March 2019	2333
87	Ep87 – Conscientious Objectors in WW1 – Gerry Barton	22 October 2018	2326
98	Ep98 – Australian Corps Operations during the Hundred Days – Richard Stobo	21 January 2019	2314
107	Ep107 – The Berlin Philharmonic & London Symphony Orchestras in WW1 – Percy Leung	25 March 2019	2308
73	Ep73 – Learning to fight – Military innovation in the British Army in WW1 – Dr Aimee Fox	16 July 2018	2292
108	Ep108 – Nobody of Any Importance – Phil Sutcliffe	01 April 2019	2288
122	Ep122 – The Welsh Walter Mitty – Marietta Crichton Stuart	08 July 2019	2279
106	Ep106 -The Impact of the First World War on Australian-British relations – Dr Jack Davies	18 March 2019	2254
90	Ep90 – The Portuguese Expeditionary Force in WW1 – Miguel Freire	12 November 2018	2251
88	Ep88 – The 10th (Irish) Division – Dr Stephen Sandford	29 October 2018	2222
104	Ep104 – The Salonika Front – Alan Wakefield	04 March 2019	2218
62	Ep62 – King George V during the Great War – Alexandra Churchill	30 April 2018	2183
70	Ep70 – The Last Battle – Endgame on the Western Front 1918 – Peter Hart	25 June 2018	2164
91	Ep91 – The morale of the Italian army in WW1 – Dr Vanda Wilcox	19 November 2018	2156
110	Ep110 – British Territorials in India – Prof Peter Stanley	15 April 2019	2130
124	Ep124 – Archibald Wavell – William Franklin	22 July 2019	2123
127	Ep127 – The 1914 Afrikaner Rebellion – Emile Coetzee	02 September 2019	2118
101	Ep101 – The Treatment of Mentally Ill Irish Ex-servicemen After WW1 – Dr Michael Robinson	11 February 2019	2116
100	Ep100 – Reflections on the Great War Centenary and Historiography – Prof. Peter Simkins	04 February 2019	2108
81	Ep81 – ‘Haig’s tower of strength’ – General Sir Edward Bulfin – John Powell	10 September 2018	2088
92	Ep92 – Public School Great War Memorials – Sarah Wearne	26 November 2018	2087
111	Ep111 – L/Cpl Wijnand “Vic” Hamman, 2nd South African Regt – Emile Coetzee	22 April 2019	2077
103	Ep103 – The impact of military service for women who served in WW1 – Jane Clarke	25 February 2019	2072
130	Ep130 – Sex on the Western Front – Dr Bruce Cherry	23 September 2019	2067
71	Ep71 – From Docks and Sand – The 7th Battalion Liverpool Regiment in WW1 – Dr Adrian Gregson	02 July 2018	2058
123	Ep123 – British veterans’ responses to Peace Day, 19 July 1919 – Mike Hally	15 July 2019	2047
109	Ep109 – Operation Delta – Dr Bill Stewart	08 April 2019	2032
79	Ep79 – Uppingham public school during WW1 – Tim Halstead	27 August 2018	2031
44	Ep44 – The Yanks are Coming! The AEF in WW1 – John Lee	04 December 2017	2016
85	Ep85 – Women of Aktion – female activists in the German 1918 Revolution – Prof. Ingrid	08 October 2018	1990
76	Ep76 – Canadian nurses’ Great War narratives – Andrea McKenzie	06 August 2018	1983
97	Ep97 – Witnessing the End of the German Occupation of Brussels,1918 – Prof Tammy Proctor	14 January 2019	1975
75	Ep75 – Tubby Clayton – Dr Linda Parker	30 July 2018	1971
67	Ep67 – Kriegsgefangen in Skipton – Anne Buckley	04 June 2018	1946
65	Ep65 – Major Discoveries on the Western Front – David Tattersfield	21 May 2018	1888
66	Ep66 – The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu – Kenneth C. Davis	28 May 2018	1867
63	Ep63 – Blockade, economic warfare and the use of hunger during the Great War – Sir Hew Strachan	07 May 2018	1838
86	Ep86 – Dublin’s Great Wars, 1912-23 – Prof. Richard Grayson	15 October 2018	1815
64	Ep64 – The London Irish in the Great War – Richard O’Sullivan	14 May 2018	1804
48	Ep48 – The Hindenburg Line – Clive Harris	22 January 2018	1769
56	Ep56 – Resisting Conscription: the Appeals Tribunals in Middlesex – Carol Henderson	19 March 2018	1757
54	Ep54 – The Confessions of a Battlefield Tour Guide – Clive Harris	05 March 2018	1757
61	Ep61 – D.H. Lawrence and the Great War – Dr Andrew Humphries	23 April 2018	1747
136	Ep136 – Food in the trenches – Dr Rachel Duffett	04 November 2019	1660
58	Ep58 – Woodbine Willie – Dr Linda Parker	02 April 2018	1638
59	Ep59 – British Widows of the First World War – Andrea Hetherington	09 April 2018	1610
82	Ep82 – Force Feeding in WW1 – Dr Ian Miller	17 September 2018	1596
55	Ep55 – Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria – Dr Jonathan Boff	12 March 2018	1592
46	Ep46 – Photographing the Fallen – Jeremy Gordon-Smith	08 January 2018	1581
57	Ep57 – The Great War Contribution of the Punjabi village of Dulmial, Pakistan – Dr Irfan Malik	26 March 2018	1576
133	Ep133 – African American Servicemen during WW1 – Dr Amanda Nagel	14 October 2019	1572
129	Ep129 – Sabaton’s Great War Album – Pär Sundström	16 September 2019	1505
47	Ep47 – The Chinese Labour Corps – Dr Spenser Jones	15 January 2018	1505
51	Ep51 – The Wirral in the Great War – Stephen Roberts	12 February 2018	1491
134	Ep134 – Bainsfather’s ‘Other ‘ole’ cartoon – Dr Helen Brooks & Dr Pip Gregory	21 October 2019	1424
53	Ep53 – Nannies and the Great War – Louise Heren	26 February 2018	1421
41	Ep41 – The Canadians on the Somme – Dr William Stewart	13 November 2017	1406
49	Ep49 – The 48th Division, 1908-1918 – Dr K.W. Mitchinson	29 January 2018	1392
43	Ep43 – The Half Shilling Curate – Sarah Reay	27 November 2017	1370
52	Ep52 – Cambridge Communities in the Great War – Joanna Costin	19 February 2018	1321
139	Ep139 – Bilsdale in the Great War – Susan Laffey	25 November 2019	1316
36	Ep36 – A subaltern on the Western Front – John Rigby-Jones	09 October 2017	1308
37	Ep37 – Dr Harold Gillies and plastic surgery during WW1 – Dr Andrew Bamji	16 October 2017	1306
33	Ep33 – The “Spanish Flu” Pandemic 1917-19 – Dr Jane Orr	18 September 2017	1297
140	Ep140 – Who Killed Kitchener? – David Laws	02 December 2019	1294
138	Ep138 – The Indian Labour Corps in WW1 – Pratap Chhetri	18 November 2019	1289
38	Ep38 – Spying for the Kaiser – Regina Diana and espionage in France – Dr Vivien Newman	23 October 2017	1256
60	Ep60 – Wherever the firing line extends – Ronan McGreevy	16 April 2018	1254
39	Ep39 – The 8th Lincolns at Loos – Nigel Atter	30 October 2017	1200
35	Ep35 – The Doughboys, 1917-8 – Michael St Maur Sheil	02 October 2017	1179
34	Ep34 – Shellshock in World War 1 – Dr Stefanie Linden	25 September 2017	1152
135	Ep135 – North East Coastal Communities during the Great War – Dr Michael Reeve	28 October 2019	1113
132	Ep132 – A Lord Lieutenant at War – Dr Richard Batten	07 October 2019	1110
141	Ep141 – The Heugh Battery in the Great War – Diane Stephens	09 December 2019	1106
40	Ep40 – Marjorie’s War – Charles Fair	04 November 2017	1075
18	Passchendaele – Dr Nick Lloyd	12 June 2017	1071
145	Ep145 – Stories from the Bo’ness War Memorial – Alan Gow & Robert Jardine	27 January 2020	1059
142	Ep142 – The Battle of the Somme Film – Dr Toby Haggith	06 January 2020	1054
31	Ep31 – Women in Britain and Europe during the Great War – Dr Vivien Newman	04 September 2017	1048
137	Ep137 – The letters of Douglas Haig and Hugo De Pree – Prof. Gary Sheffield	11 November 2019	1038
32	Ep32 – Brigadier General Frank Crozier – Charles Messenger	11 September 2017	1018
24	The First Battle of the Scarpe (Arras) April 1917 – Jim Smithson	18 July 2017	1000
30	Ep30 – Joseph Steward’s Platoon – Andy Robertshaw	28 August 2017	979
150	Ep150 – War without End – Prof. Sir Hew Strachan	02 March 2020	951
17	Psychological survival in the trenches – Dr Peter Hodgkinson	07 June 2017	939
148	Ep148 – The First and the Last of the Sheffield City Bn – John Cornwell	17 February 2020	928
25	Ep25 – Major General Nugent, the Ulster Division and their army commanders in 1916 – Nicholas Perry	24 July 2017	886
21	Jutland and the Meaning of Victory – Prof Andrew Lambert	03 July 2017	884
20	Sniping in the Great War – Martin Pegler	26 June 2017	877
1	Mentioned in Dispatches Ep.1 from the Western Front Association	13 February 2017	856
7	Irish Soldiers in 1917 – Philip Pratley	05 April 2017	852
143	Ep143 – Veterans, Families, Museums and Mementos of the FWW – Dr Ann-Marie Foster	13 January 2020	834
23	The Auxiliaries in Ireland’s War of Independence – Paul O’Brien	10 July 2017	834
14	General Fox Conner and the American Expeditionary Force in WW1 – Steven Rabalais	22 May 2017	825
149	Ep149 – The Amritsar Massacre – Vanessa Holburn	24 February 2020	822
45	Ep45 – Dublin’s Great Wars: Parallel Stories 1912-1923 – Prof. Richard Grayson	11 December 2017	813
26	Ep26 – Beyond the Somme – West Belfast’s Somme service in context – Prof Richard Grayson	31 July 2017	804
19	Animals in the Great War – Lucinda Moore	19 June 2017	792
147	Ep147 – Officer Cadet Battalions – Charles Fair	10 February 2020	790
10	Battlefield tourism on the Western Front – Dr Stephen Miles	28 April 2017	749
151	Ep151 – Desertion in the UK during WW1 – Andrea Hetherington	09 March 2020	748
29	Ep29 – Commemoration of the Great War in Ireland – Dr Chris Manson	21 August 2017	727
16	The Myths of the Irish at Messines – Dr Tim Bowman	06 May 2017	721
146	Ep146 – The YMCA during WW1 – Kathryn White	03 February 2020	713
12	The Diary of a Belgian Priest – 1917 with the British in Ypres – Dominiek Dendooven	08 May 2017	705
6	British Staff in 1917 – Dr Paul Harris	05 April 2017	695
28	Ep28 – Military Recruitment in Ireland, 1916 – Dr William Butler	15 August 2017	674
9	Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps – Dr Samantha Philo-Gill	24 April 2017	668
13	The Great War tea stall at Peterborough East Station	15 May 2017	667
2	Mentioned in Dispatches Ep2 from the Western Front Association	13 February 2017	665
22	Donegall Pass Heroes of the Great War Project – Ron McMurray	08 July 2017	648
4	The Honourable Artillery Company in 1917 – Michael Orr	01 March 2017	631
3	Stately Homes and Cartoons in WW1	13 February 2017	591
8	The Great War’s influence on popular music – Dr Peter Grant	05 April 2017	581
11	Winning with Laughter – Cartoonists in the Great War – Luci Gosling	01 May 2017	561
15	The Island of Ireland and the Great War in Flanders – Piet Chielens from In Flanders Fields Museum	29 May 2017	536
5	French tanks in 1917 – Dr Tim Gale	05 April 2017	514
152	Ep152 – Defence of Trinity College during the Easter Rising – Dr Rory Sweetman	16 March 2020	488
153	Ep153 – The 66th (East Lancs) Division During the German Spring Offensive – David Martin	23 March 2020	452
144	Ep144 – British West Indies Regiment and the Taranto 1918 Mutiny – Tony T	20 January 2020	413
154	Ep154 – Rugbians at War – Dan Mclean	30 March 2020	369
42	Ep42 – What did you do in the Great War, Grandfather? – Charles Barrington	20 November 2017	317
27	Ep27 – Black Watch volunteers in Dublin before the First World War – Ian Montgomery	07 August 2017	152

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Downloads for the Mentioned in Dispatches podcast – to end of March 2020