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15 Minute Drama: Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms

Toby Swift

Jessica Dromgoole

15 Minute Drama: Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms: Episode 1

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A Farewell to Arms

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Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms

BBC Radio 4 - 15 Minute Drama, Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell to Arms, Episode 1

American ambulance driver Frederic Henry meets British nurse Catherine Barkley.

4 Extra Debut. During World War One, American ambulance driver for the Italian army, Frederic, meets British nurse, Catherine. Stars Patrick Kennedy.

Ernest Hemingway's novel, dramatised by Stephen Keyworth. 
1/10 Frederic Henry, an American ambulance driver for the Italian army, plays courtship games with Catherine Barkley, a British nurse. 

Cast
Frederic ..... Patrick Kennedy
Catherine ..... Morven Christie
Rinaldi ..... Carl Prekopp
Ferguson ..... Alex Tregear 
Manera ..... Jonathan Forbes 

Directed by Jessica Dromgoole

As part of the BBC Year of the Book, Radio Four presents Ernest Hemingway's greatest love story set in the Italian conflict in the First World War, where American ambulance driver Frederic Henry and British nurse Catherine Barkley are serving. Despite themselves, they find life and passion beneath the numbness of war and death. 
A dramatisation by Steven Keyworth, with Patrick Kennedy (Atonement, War Horse) as Frederic, and Morven Christie (Lost in Austen, The Sinking of the Laconia) as Catherine.

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Ernest Hemingway's love story, set in Italy during WWI, dramatised by Stephen Keyworth

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