Behind the Lines
Episodes
7 episodes
Episode 6: Iraq and Afghanistan
In this episode we hear the letters and emails written by the next Greatest Generation, the men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan and on the home front. Voiced by actors like Army Veteran Donn Nemchick, Frederick Weller and Many S...
Episode 5: Women in Service
From the American Revolution to present day women have fought for our democracy from the battlefields to the home front. Women in Service tells their story through letters voiced by actresses such as Julianna Margulies, Martha Plimpton...
Behind the Lines Teaser
BEHIND THE LINES (BTL) is a 30-minute monthly podcast that features readings (by famous actors and other prominent people) of the greatest war letters ever written.The podcast is hosted by Emmy-winning journalist Barbara Harrison who ex...
Episode 2: Pandemic
This episode features letters written during and about the Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918 and 1919, especially as it affected World War I. (More American troops were killed in WWI by the disease than in combat.) The podcast ends with a powerful l...
Episode 1: Inaugural Podcast
This episode introduces the BEHIND THE LINES podcast and focuses on the historian Andrew Carroll’s overall mission to seek out and preserve America’s wars letters. This episode also covers a variety of themes and spotlights some of the best, ne...
