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Drama series following the lives of those on and behind the battlefront of World War I. Created by Jonathan Ruffle.

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Tommies: 21 October 1914

21/10/2014

21 October 1914

BBC Radio 4 - Tommies, 21 October 1914

Mickey's plan to be a battlefield tourist is undone by an artillery captain on a mission.

Mickey's plan to be a battlefield tourist is undone by an artillery captain on a mission. By Jonathan Ruffle.

by Jonathan Ruffle.

Series created by Jonathan Ruffle

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

Through it all, we follow the fortunes of Mickey Bliss and his fellow signallers, from the Lahore Division of the British Indian Army. They are the cogs in an immense machine, one which connects situations across the whole theatre of the war, over four long years.

Indira Varma, Lee Ross and Alex Wyndham star in this story, set at Ypres during the first Battle of Langemarck. Mickey's signals unit goes forward with the British offensive. And just as no battle plan survives contact with the enemy, so Mickey's plan to be a battlefield tourist is not about to survive contact with an artillery captain on a mission of his own.

Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle
Director: David Hunter.

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