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Home Front - Omnibus

Episode 108: 16-20 July 1918

Duration: 58 minutes

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

Available for years

The fifth omnibus of Season 14, Needs Must When the Devil Drives, set in Devon, in the week, in 1918, when the Board of Agriculture reported an increase in German PoW farm workers from 800 to 10,000.

Cast
Victor Lumley ..... Joel MacCormack
Isabel Graham ..... Keely Beresford
Howard Argent ..... Gunnar Cauthery
Elspeth Taverner ..... Kelly Williams
Kitty Lumley ..... Ami Metcalf
Klaus Hofstadter ..... Atilla Akinci
Hetty Cox ..... Adie Allen
Daniel Marriott ..... Jonathan Bailey
Juliet Cavendish ..... Lizzie Bourne
Howard Argent ..... ..... Gunnar Cauthery
Sylvia Graham ..... Joanna David
Silas Morrow ..... Shaun Dooley
Arthur Hurst ..... Mark Heap
Isaac Cox ..... James Lailey
Rose Fairweather ..... Helen Longworth
Victor Lumley ..... Joel MacCormack
Betty Newcombe ..... Annie McKenzie
Cora Gidley ..... Joanna Monro
Adeline Lumley ..... Helen Schlesinger
Dieter Lippke ..... Joe Sims
Mrs Ferrier ..... Jane Slavin
Effie Taverner ..... Lizzie Stables
Charles Summer ..... Rufus Wright
Connie Cavendish ..... Darcey Brown
Grace Cavendish ..... Grace Doherty
Peter Lumley ..... Beatrice White

Written by Katie Hims
Story-led by Sebastian Baczkiewicz
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole

Sound: Martha Littlehailes
Composer: Matthew Strachan
Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews. Show less

Contributors

Victor Lumley:
Joel MacCormack
Adeline Lumley:
Helen Schlesinger
Silas Morrow:
Shaun Dooley
Arthur Hurst:
Mark Heap
Daniel Marriott:
Jonathan Bailey
Kitty Lumley:
Ami Metcalf
Howard Argent:
Gunnar Cauthery
Isabel Graham:
Keely Beresford
Cora Gidley:
Joanna Monro
Juliet Cavendish:
Lizzie Bourne
Sylvia Graham:
Joanna David
Charles Summer:
Rufus Wright
Mrs Ferrier:
Jane Slavin
Grace Cavendish:
Grace Doherty
Connie Cavendish:
Darcy Brown
Hetty Cox:
Adie Allen
Rose Fairweather:
Helen Longworth
Elspeth Taverner:
Kelly Williams
Klaus Hofstadter:
Atilla Akinci
Dieter Lippke:
Joe Sims
Peter Lumley:
Beatrice White
Writer:
Katie Hims

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