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Keely Beresford

Michael Bertenshaw

Lisa Brookes

David Cann

Claire-Louise Cordwell

Craige Els

Deborah Findlay

Freddie Fox

Arthur Hughes

Lucy Hutchinson

Cassie Layton

Alfie Lowles

Joel MacCormack

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Nicholas Murchie

Harry Myers

Wilf Scolding

Rachel Shelley

Joe Sims

Emily Spooner

Katie Hims

Jessica Dromgoole

Home Front - Omnibus: Episode 1: 4-8 August 1914 (Season 1 start)

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Episode 1: 4-8 August 1914 (Season 1 start)

Home Front

4-8 August 1914 (Season 1 start)

BBC Radio 4 - Home Front - Omnibus, 4-8 August 1914 (Season 1 start)

Folkestone comes to terms with being at the hub of Britain's war effort.

An epic drama series set in Great War Britain. Folkestone comes to terms with being at the hub of Britain's war effort.

An epic drama series set in Great War Britain exactly a hundred years before it was first broadcast. In the first weekly omnibus edition of Season 1, Folkestone comes to terms with being at the hub of Britain's war effort.

Written by Katie Hims
Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews
Music: Matthew Strachan
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole

Home Front is a ground-breaking Radio Four radio drama - its biggest ever - set in Britain during 1914-18, 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 historical truths 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.

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Epic drama series charting the lives of a group of characters on the home front during WWI

Omnibus editions of the epic drama series tracking the fortunes 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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