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Drama series following the lives of those on and behind the battlefront of World War I.

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

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Indira Varma

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David Hunter

Jonquil Panting

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Nick Warburton

Tommies: 11 November 1914

11/11/2014

11 November 1914

BBC Radio 4 - Tommies, 11 November 1914

Mickey finds himself at Ypres with the exhausted British Expeditionary Force.

Mickey finds himself at Ypres with an exhausted force and no-one to defend a vital breach in the line. With Lee Ross, Indira Varma and Sam Rix.

By Nick Warburton.

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 Sam Rix star in this story, as Mickey finds himself at Ypres with the exhausted British Expeditionary Force, and no one to defend a vital breach in line, at Nonne Bosschen copse.

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

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