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Home Front - Omnibus

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Kelly Williams

Joe Sims

Lizzie Stables

Atilla Akinci

Marcel Hagen

Debbie Korley

Helen Longworth

Lloyd Thomas

Jade Matthew

Ed Gaughan

Richard Cotton

Sean Murray

Ami Metcalf

Joel MacCormack

Jonathan Bailey

Beatrice White

Helen Schlesinger

Brian Protheroe

Mark Heap

Michael Bertenshaw

David Sterne

Gunnar Cauthery

Joanna Monro

James Lailey

Shaun Dooley

Nigel Pilkington

John Lightbody

Sebastian Baczkiewicz

Ciaran Bermingham

Jessica Dromgoole

Home Front - Omnibus: Episode 107: 9-13 July 1918

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Episode 107

Episode 107: 9-13 July 1918

Home Front

9-13 July 1918

BBC Radio 4 - Home Front - Omnibus, 9-13 July 1918

Epic war drama set in 1918 when the Russian Soviet Republic adopted its first constitution

Epic war drama set in Devon, in the week in 1918 when the Russian Soviet Republic adopted its first constitution.

The fourth omnibus of Season 14, Needs Must When the Devil Drives, set in Devon, in the week, in 1918, when the Russian Soviet Republic adopted its first constitution, containing the slogan 'He who does not work, neither shall he eat!'. At Halecot Farm, meanwhile, Dieter has been toiling all night.

Cast
Elspeth Taverner ..... Kelly Williams 
Ivan Jackson ..... Lloyd Thomas 
Kitty Lumley ..... Ami Metcalf
Hector Gidley ..... Brian Protheroe 
Silas Morrow ..... Shaun Dooley 
Klaus Hofstadter ..... Atilla Akinci
Daniel Marriott ..... Jonathan Bailey
Gabriel Graham ..... Michael Bertenshaw
Howard Argent ..... Gunnar Cauthery
Amos Rutter ..... Richard Cotton
Moses Wickens ..... Ed Gaughan
Ludwig Huber ..... Marcel Hagen 
Arthur Hurst ..... Mark Heap
Cathy Lawrence ..... Debbie Korley
Isaac Cox ..... James Lailey
Vernon Goodman ..... John Lightbody
Rose Fairweather ..... Helen Longworth
Victor Lumley ..... Joel MacCormack
Primrose Holden ..... Jade Matthew
Cora Gidley ..... Joanna Monro 
Robin Bowder ..... Sean Murray
Sid Butler ..... Nigel Pilkington
Adeline Lumley ..... Helen Schlesinger
Dieter Lippke ..... Joe Sims
Effie Taverner ..... Lizzie Stables
Clarence Ogden ..... David Sterne
Peter Lumley ..... Beatrice White 

Written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz
Directed by Ciaran Bermingham
Editor: Jessica Dromgoole

Sound: Martha Littlehailes
Composer: Matthew Strachan
Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews.

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