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Is This Cruel Enough?

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Riley has been seriously and hideously injured at Ypres and is being nursed by Rose Locke.

The First World War brought changes previously unimaginable to every aspect of life. Louisa Young's story explores the impact on the lives of women, on the challenge to the Edwardian class structure and on assumptions about patriotism and duty.

Episode 7 : "Is this cruel enough?"

Riley has been seriously and hideously injured at Ypres and is being nursed by Rose Locke.

Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths
Producer Christine Hall.

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By Louisa Young. Story of love and trauma set in World War I. Read by Olivia Colman

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