Home Front - Omnibus

23-27 July 1918

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The sixth omnibus of Season 14, Needs Must When the Devil Drives, set in Devon, in the week, in 1918, when an outbreak of flu was reported at a PoW camp in Bramley, affecting a third of the 3,000 prisoners.

Cast

Emily Colville ..... Scarlett Brookes
Cathy Lawrence ..... Debbie Korley
Kitty Lumley ..... Ami Metcalf
Howard Argent ..... Gunnar Cauthery
Cora Gidley ..... Joanna Monro
Klaus Hofstadter ..... Atilla Akinci
Hetty Cox ..... Adie Allen
Daniel Marriot ..... Jonathan Bailey
Morris Battley ..... Sean Baker
Gabriel Graham ..... Michael Bertenshaw
Juliet Cavendish ..... Lizzie Bourne
Lauren ..... Lauren Cornelius
Sylvia Graham ..... Joanna David
Stallholder ..... Ryan Early
Moses Wickens ..... Ed Gaughan
Ludwig Huber ..... Marcel Hagen
Isaac Cox ..... James Lailey
Cyrus Colville ..... Anton Lesser
Victor Lumley ..... Joel MacCormack
Hardy Walsh ..... Damien Molony
Mr Buckle ..... Sean Murray
Hector Gidley ..... Brian Protheroe
Susie ..... Susie Riddell
Marieke Argent ..... Olivia Ross
Adeline Lumley ..... Helen Schlesinger
Eli Lawrence ..... Michael Shelford
Effie Taverner ..... Lizzie Stables
Bertram Colville ..... Nick Underwood
Elspeth Taverner ..... Kelly Williams
Connie Cavendish ..... Darcey Brown
Grace Cavendish ..... Grace Doherty
Teddy Lawrence ..... Florence Duncalf
Peter Lumley ..... Beatrice White

Written by Katie Hims

Story-led by Sebastian Baczkiewicz
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole

Sound: Martha Littlehailes

Composer: Matthew Strachan
Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews.

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