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Tommies

9 June 1916

Duration: 45 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Lee Ross, Indira Varma, Sagar Radia and Ewan Bailey star in this story by Michael Chaplin.

In the build up to the Somme Mickey Bliss's plan to test Capitaine Vasserot's new communication device in No Man's Land doesn't go according to plan.

Meticulously based on war diaries and eye-witness accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at war exactly 100 years ago.

This series of TOMMIES follows the fortunes of Mickey Bliss and his fellow signallers from the Lahore Division of the British Indian Army. They are cogs in an immense machine, one which connects situations across the whole theatre of war, over 4 long years.

Series created by Jonathan Ruffle
Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle
Director: David Hunter. Show less

Contributors

Mickey Bliss:
Lee Ross
Commentator:
Indira Varma
Albert Pinto:
Colin Hoult
Demanjit Singh:
Sagar Radia
Capitaine Vasserot:
Ewan Bailey
Francis Woodrington:
Nick Underwood
Eckhart Bauer:
Sam Alexander
Producer:
David Hunter
Director:
David Hunter

Brand

Tommies

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