by VERA BRITTAIN
An autobiography 1913-1925 Dramatised in five parts by ELAINE MORGAN 1: Buxton 1913
Cheryl Campbell plays the part of Vera Brittain in this award-winning serial based on the autobiography of Vera Brittain. For her performance Cheryl Campbell received both the BAFTA and Broadcasting Press Guild Awards for Best Actress of 1979. The serial itself received the BAFTA Award for Best Drama Serial of 1979. At the beginning Vera Brittain is 18, and lives with her prosperous parents. She is already in rebellion against provincial life and longs to go to Oxford, an ambition locally regarded as unreasonable and unfeminine.
Poetry spoken by GARY WATSON
Music composed and conducted by GEOFFREY BURGON
Producer JONATHAN POWELL
Directed by MOIRA ARMSTRONG