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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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Pippa Nixon

Patrick Kennedy

Indira Varma

Laura Molyneux

Nicholas Farrell

Ben Crowe

Michael Bertenshaw

Will Howard

Matthew Watson

David Cann

Tony Pitts

Damian Lynch

David Hunter

Jonquil Panting

Jonathan Ruffle

Michael Chaplin

Tommies: 4 November 1914

04/11/2014

4 November 1914

BBC Radio 4 - Tommies, 4 November 1914

Dr Celestine de Tullio returns from France to find that things are amiss.

Celestine returns from France to find that things are amiss, while her husband Robert gets embroiled in the realities of financing a war. Stars Indira Varma and Patrick Kennedy.

by Michael Chaplin.

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 and behind the battlefront, exactly 100 years ago.

And 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, Pippa Nixon and Patrick Kennedy star in this story, as Dr Celestine de Tullio returns from France to find that things are amiss with army medicals, while her husband Robert gets embroiled in the realities of financing a war.

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

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