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Home Front

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Drama serial charting life on the home front during the First World War.

Drama serial tracking the fortunes of a group of characters on the home front as they try to maintain normality while Britain is involved in the First World War.

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Sean Baker

Nigel Hastings

Leo Montague

Keely Beresford

Elaine Claxton

Katie Hims

Sean Moffatt

Jessica Dromgoole

Home Front: 11 August 1914 - Norman Harris

4 August 1914 - Kitty Wilson

11/08/2014

11 August 1914 - Norman Harris

BBC Radio 4 - Home Front, 11 August 1914 - Norman Harris

The search for the missing boys continues, stretching the local police's resources.

As the search for the missing boys continues, Folkestone's local police find their resources terribly stretched.

The first season of an epic drama series set in Great War Britain exactly one hundred days before its original broadcast on BBC Radio 4. In this episode, as the search for the missing boys continues, Folkestone's local police find their resources terribly stretched...

Written by: Katie Hims & Sean Moffatt
Music by: Matthew Strachan
Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
Editor: Jessica Dromgoole

Home Front is a ground-breaking new Radio Four radio drama - its biggest ever at around 600 episodes - set in Britain during the Great War, playing a central role in the BBC's comprehensive offering to mark the centenaries of World War One.

An enthralling fiction, set against a backdrop of fact. Each episode is set a hundred years to the day before broadcast, and follows one character's day. Together they create a mosaic of experience from a wide cross-section of British society, and a playful treasure hunt, with at least one historical truth hidden in each story.

Season One is set in Folkestone, a fashionable Edwardian seaside resort that quickly became one of the hubs of the military machine, and close enough to France to hear the fighting. Future seasons will be set in Newcastle and Devon, telling the major stories of wartime Britain.

Marking major and minor events of the time, Home Front charts the strategies that ordinary people found for managing life in wartime, and how, together, they ensured that the Home Front didn't break down.

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