Home Front

Home Front

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Home Front episodes

  • 6 August 1914 - Jimmy Macknade

    The first season of an epic drama series set in Great War Britain exactly one hundred days before its original broadcast on BBC Radio 4. In this episode, in all the excitement of war, two seven year old boys fancy an adventure of their own.

    Written by: Katie Hims

    Music: Matthew Strachan
    Directed by Editor: Jessica Dromgoole
    Sound: Martha Littlehailes

    12 min
  • 5 August 1914 - Gabriel Graham

    The first season of an epic drama series set in Great War Britain exactly one hundred days before its original broadcast on BBC Radio 4. In this episode, Folkestone has woken up to new responsibilities as a part of the war machine.

    Written by: Katie Hims

    Music: Matthew Strachan
    Directed by Editor: Jessica Dromgoole
    Sound: Martha Littlehailes

    13 min
  • 4 August 1914 - Kitty Wilson
    Epic new drama series set in Great War Britain on this day a hundred years ago. As Britain waits for Germany's response to their ultimatum, in Folkestone, Kitty Wilson has a deadline of her own.
    Written by: Katie Hims
    Music: Matthew Strachan
    Directed by Editor: Jessica Dromgoole
    Home Front is a ground-breaking new Radio Four radio drama - its biggest ever at around 600 episodes - set in Britain during the Great War, playing a central role in the BBC's comprehensive World War One offering.
    An enthralling fiction, set against a backdrop of fact. Each episode is set a hundred years to the day before broadcast, and follows one character's day. Together they create a mosaic of experience from a wide cross-section of British society, and a playful treasure hunt, with at least one historical truth hidden in each story.
    Season One is set in Folkestone, a fashionable Edwardian seaside resort that quickly became one of the hubs of the military machine, and close enough to France to hear the fighting. Future seasons will be set in Newcastle and Devon, telling the major stories of wartime Britain.
    Marking major and minor events of the time, Home Front charts the strategies that ordinary people found for managing life in wartime, and how, together, they ensured that the Home Front didn't break down.
    13 min

About Home Front

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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.

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