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The Great War: Part 19: The hell where youth and laughter go (Siegfried Sassoon)

on BBC One London

Written by John Terraine.
A twenty-six-part history of the 1914-18 War.

With the collapse of Russia, the war focuses on the Western Front, a deadlocked 'zone of madness' such as the world has never seen.

With the voices of Sir Michael Redgrave as Narrator, Sir Ralph Richardson as Haig, Emlyn Williams as Lloyd George and Marius Goring, Cyril Luckham, Sebastian Shaw
Theme music by Wilfred Josephs
Played by the BBC Northern Orchestra
Conducted by George Hurst
Series produced in collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting Commission
A BBC Tonight production
(First transmission on BBC-2, October 4, 1964)

Contributors

Writer/Associate Producer (Great Britain):
John Terraine
Narrator:
Sir Michael Redgrave
Haig (voice):
Sir Ralph Richardson
Lloyd George (voice):
Emlyn Williams
Voices:
Marius Goring
Voices:
Cyril Luckham
Voices:
Sebastian Shaw
Theme music:
Wilfred Josephs
Theme music played by:
The BBC Northern Orchestra
Orchestra conducted by:
George Hurst
Supervising Film Editor:
Barry Toovey
Film Editor:
Pam Bosworth
Sound Editor:
Brian Keene
Sound mixer:
Robert Saunders
Associate Producer (Canada):
Ed Rollins
Associate Producer (Australia):
Tom Manefield
Producer:
Tony Essex
Producer:
Gordon Watkins

BBC One London

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