Home Front - Omnibus

28 August - 1 September 1917

09.01.2017 - By BBC Radio 4Play

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The fifth omnibus of Season 11, Broken and Mad, set in Folkestone, in the week, in 1917, when Wilfred Owen wrote 'Many of us who came to the Hydro slightly ill are now getting dangerously well'. Cast

Jessie Moore ..... Lucy Hutchinson

Esme Macknade ..... Katie Angelou

Howard Argent ..... Gunnar Cauthery

Florrie Wilson ..... Claire Rushbrook

Adeline Lumley ..... Helen Schlesinger

Ulysses Pilchard ..... Khalid Abdalla

Phyllis Marshall ..... Christine Absalom

Norman Harris ..... Sean Baker

Gabriel Graham ..... Michael Bertenshaw

Juliet Cavendish ..... Lizzie Bourne

Alice Macknade ..... Claire Louise Cordwell

Sylvia Graham ..... Joanna David

Joan Edkins ..... Rachel Davies

Silas Morrow ..... Shaun Dooley

Oscar Hendrickx ..... Pierre Elliot

Hilary Pearce ..... Craige Els

Albert Wilson ..... Jamie Foreman

Chester Matthews ..... Samuel James

Maisie Harris ..... Cassie Layton

Victor Lumley ..... Joel McCormack

Lily Mott ..... Sanchia MacCormack

Kitty Lumley ..... Ami Metcalf

Clemmie Crayford ..... Joanna Monro

Olive Hargreaves ..... Rhiannon Neads

Jane Underdown ..... Susan Porrett

Agnes Hemmings ..... Jane Slavin

Dennis Monk ..... Sam Swann

Ivy Layton ..... Lizzy Watts

Charles Summer ..... Rufus Wright Written by Mike Walker

Directed by Jessica Dromgoole Story led by Katie Hims

Sound: Martha Littlehailes

Composer: Matthew Strachan

Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews.

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