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Home Front - Omnibus

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Joel MacCormack

Ami Metcalf

Jonathan Bailey

Helen Schlesinger

Beatrice White

Lizzie Stables

Kelly Williams

Debbie Korley

Florence Duncalf

Kerry Gooderson

Sean Baker

Joanna Monro

Joanna David

Emma Handy

Shaun Dooley

Annie McKenzie

Rufus Wright

Geoffrey Palmer

Keely Beresford

Michael Bertenshaw

Matthew Beard

David Sterne

Helen Longhurst

Gunnar Cauthery

Susie Riddell

Sarah Daniels

Jessica Dromgoole

Home Front - Omnibus: Episode 111: 6-10 August 1918

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Episode 111

Episode 111: 6-10 August 1918

Home Front

6-10 August 1918

BBC Radio 4 - Home Front - Omnibus, 6-10 August 1918

Thousands of soldiers are given agricultural furlough to help with the harvest.

Epic war drama set in the week when thousands of soldiers were given agricultural furlough to help with the harvest.

Final omnibus of Season 14, Needs Must When the Devil Drives, set in the week when thousands of soldiers were given agricultural furlough to help with the harvest. 

Cast
Victor Lumley ..... Joel MacCormack 
Effie Taverner ..... Lizzie Stables
Adeline Lumley ..... Helen Schlesinger
Charles Summer ..... Rufus Wright
Alexander Gidley ..... Matthew Beard
Daniel Marriott ..... Jonathan Bailey 
Morris Battley ..... Sean Baker
Isabel Graham ..... Keely Beresford
Gabriel Graham ..... Michael Bertenshaw
Sylvia Graham ..... Joanna David 
Silas Morrow ..... Shaun Dooley 
Mrs Beast ..... Kerry Gooderson
Miss Millard ..... Emma Handy
Cathy Lawrence ..... Debbie Korley
Betty Newcombe ..... Annie McKenzie
Kitty Lumley ..... Ami Metcalf
Cora Gidley ..... Joanna Monro 
Lionel Summer ..... Geoffrey Palmer 
Clarence Ogden ..... David Sterne
Elspeth Taverner ..... Kelly Williams 
Teddy Lawrence ..... Florence Duncalf 
Peter Lumley ..... Beatrice White
Musicians ..... Helen Longhurst, Gunnar Cauthery, Susie Riddell, Jonathan Bailey 


Written by Sarah Daniels
Story-led by Sebastian Baczkiewicz
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole

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

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Epic drama series charting the lives of a group of characters on the home front during WWI

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