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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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Claire Louise Cordwell

Katie Angelou

Ben Crowe

Gunnar Cauthery

Shaun McKenna

Jessica Dromgoole

Home Front: 6 September 1916 - Alice Macknade

8 August 1916 - Sylvia Graham (Season 8 start)

06/09/2016

6 September 1916 - Alice Macknade

BBC Radio 4 - Home Front, 6 September 1916 - Alice Macknade

Eighty men are detained as absentee conscripts after a raid on a boxing tournament at Woolwich Hippodrome, and in Folkestone, Bill Macknade is back on fighting form.

On this day in 1916, 80 men were detained as absentee conscripts after a raid on a boxing tournament at Woolwich Hippodrome, and Bill Macknade is back on fighting form.

Written by Shaun McKenna 
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole
Sound: Martha Littlehailes

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