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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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Matthew Beard

Billy Kennedy

Joanna Monro

Brian Protheroe

Keely Beresford

Paul Ready

Dean Nolan

Stephen Tomlin

Sarah Daniels

Jessica Dromgoole

Home Front: 13 May 1916 - Alexander Gidley

4 April 1916 - Isaac Cox (Season 7 start)

13/05/2016

13 May 1916 - Alexander Gidley

BBC Radio 4 - Home Front, 13 May 1916 - Alexander Gidley

In Staverton, it is Alexander Gidley's birthday.

Prime Minister Herbert Asquith visits Mountjoy prison in Dublin, where Eamon de Valera refuses to shake his hand, and in Staverton, it is Alexander's birthday.

On this day in 1916, the Prime Minister Herbert Asquith visited Mountjoy prison in Dublin, where De Valera refused to shake his hand, and in Staverton, it's Alexander's birthday.

Written by Sarah Daniels
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole
Sound: Martha Littlehailes

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