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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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Tommies: Tommies - Series 5

Pippa Nixon

Indira Varma

Paul Chahidi

Catriona McFarlane

Karen Bartke

Finlay Robertson

Gavi Singh Chera

Robert Ginty

Nicholas Murchie

Luke MacGregor

Maksim Mijovic

David Hunter

Jonquil Panting

Jonathan Ruffle

Tommies: Tommies - Series 5: Episode 1: 11 November 1916

Episode 1

Episode 1: 11 November 1916

Tommies - Series 5

11 November 1916

BBC Radio 4 - Tommies, Tommies - Series 5, 11 November 1916

Doctor Celestine de Tullio has gone from doctoring to fighting in Serbia.

Doctor Celestine de Tullio is commanding an offensive up a near-vertical mountain deep in snow. The military objective is at the top, but Celestine has another target in her sights.

Tommies celebrates the women combatants and drivers of the Serbian Army, in this story by Jonathan Ruffle. 

Doctor Celestine de Tullio, like Flora Sandes, has gone from doctoring to fighting in Serbia, joining the legendary campaign of the Serbian Army to reclaim its homeland, in which 60% of the male population died. 

Today she's commanding an offensive up a near-vertical mountain deep in snow. The military objective is at the top of the mountain. But Celestine has another target in her sights. 

Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at war, exactly 100 years ago.

And through it all, we'll 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.

Series created by Jonathan Ruffle
Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle
Director: Jonquil Panting.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Based on eye-witness accounts, each episode traces one real day of the Great War

Based on eye-witness accounts, each episode of Tommies traces one real day of the Great War

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