Home Front

By BBC Radio 4Fiction Drama

Home Front episodes

September 03, 2014 3 September 1914 - Marieke Dupont
A Belgian couple arrive at the vicarage claiming that Matthieu is their baby, but Marieke has more than an instinct that they are lying.
Written by Shaun McKenna
Music: Matthew Strachan
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
13 min
September 02, 2014 2 September 1914 - Ralph Winwood
The complications in the vicar's life threaten to catch up with him.
Written by Shaun McKenna
Music: Matthew Strachan
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
13 min
September 01, 2014 1 September 1914 - Florrie Wilson
A retired Admiral, Charles Fitzgerald, conceived the notion of the White Feather movement in Folkestone. Local women are encouraged to join in the shaming of non-combatants, with more or less success.
Written by Shaun McKenna
Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews
Music: Matthew Strachan
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
13 min
August 29, 2014 29 August 1914 - Albert Wilson
In Folkestone, the cake sale at St Jude's is in full swing.
Written by: Shaun McKenna
Music: Matthew Strachan
Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
Editor: Jessica Dromgoole.
13 min
August 28, 2014 28 August 1914 - Dorothea Winwood
Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a hundred years ago. Britain were victorious in their first naval battle and in Folkestone, there are tears at the Vicarage.
Written by: Shaun McKenna
Music: Matthew Strachan
Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
Editor: Jessica Dromgoole.
13 min
August 27, 2014 27 August 1914 - Gabriel Graham
In Folkestone, Gabriel struggles to write an appropriate speech for the first British war wounded...
Written by: Shaun McKenna
Music: Matthew Strachan
Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
Editor: Jessica Dromgoole.
13 min
August 26, 2014 26 August 1914 - Adam Wilson
In Folkestone, the German Consulate is under surveillance.
Written by: Shaun McKenna
Music: Matthew Strachan
Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
Editor: Jessica Dromgoole.
12 min
August 25, 2014 25 August 1914 - Isabel Graham
After the influx of refugees from Belgium, initiatives are afoot at St Judes to help.
Written by: Shaun McKenna
Music: Matthew Strachan
Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
Editor: Jessica Dromgoole.
13 min
August 22, 2014 22 August 1914 - Jessie Moore
An eclipse brings tourists, soldiers, refugees and townsfolk flocking to the seafront.
Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz
Music: Matthew Strachan
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
12 min
August 21, 2014 21 August 1914 - Florrie Wilson
A button falls off. A letter is discovered. A boy's hat is found on the beach.
Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz
Music: Matthew Strachan
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
13 min

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Drama serial tracking the fortunes of a group of characters on the home front as they try to maintain normality while Britain is involved in the First World War.