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The Rest is History

Series 1

Episode 2

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Frank Skinner with guests Kate Williams, Victoria Coren Mitchell and Andy Zaltzman ponder history’s funniest moments. From 2014. Show more

Home Front - Omnibus

Episode 82: 14-18 August 1917

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for years

The third omnibus of Season 11, Broken and Mad, set in Folkestone, in the week, in 1917, when poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon met in Craiglockhart Hospital. Show more

Contributors

Howard Argent:
Gunnar Cauthery
Marieke Argent:
Olivia Ross
Victor Lumley:
Joel MacCormack
Juliet Cavendish:
Lizzie Bourne
Olive Hargreaves:
Rhiannon Neads
Ulysses Pilchard:
Khalid Abdalla
Phillip Sassoon:
Luke Newberry
Gabriel Graham:
Michael Bertenshaw
Sylvia Graham:
Joanna David
Phyllis Marshall:
Christine Absalom
Adeline Lumley:
Helen Schlesinger
Connie Marshall:
Darcy Brown
Grace Cavendish:
Grace Doherty
Isabel Graham:
Keely Beresford
Dorothea Winwood:
Rachel Shelley
Chester Matthews:
Samuel James
Silas Morrow:
Shaun Dooley
Kitty Lumley:
Ami Metcalf
Norman Harris:
Sean Baker
Eric Morton:
Paul Rainbow
Anna White:
Ellie Piercy
Maisie Harris:
Cassie Layton
Harry Pankhurst:
Sean Murray
Major Love:
Simon Ludders
Dennis Monk:
Sam Swann
Edna Harris:
Lara West
Barman:
Philip Fox
Writer:
Katie Hims

Genres

Tommies

17 April 1917

Duration: 45 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Drama tracing one real day in the First World War. Who appears at your bedside when you are a serviceman and expected to die? Starring Lee Ross and Indira Varma. From April 2017. Show more

Contributors

Captain Mickey Bliss:
Lee Ross
Commentator:
Indira Varma
Mrs Evadne Hopkins:
Clare Corbett
Mrs Vera Bliss:
Pooky Quesnel
Jack Bliss:
Antonio Aakeel
Norbert Hammond:
John Bowler
Captain Roland Lester:
Kevin Trainor
Muriel Starling VAD:
Sarah Ridgeway
Celestine De Tullio:
Pippa Nixon
Mrs Hennessy:
Georgie Glen
Producer:
David Hunter

Genres

Brand

Tommies

Home Front - Omnibus

Episode 82: 14-18 August 1917

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for years

The third omnibus of Season 11, Broken and Mad, set in Folkestone, in the week, in 1917, when poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon met in Craiglockhart Hospital. Show more

Contributors

Howard Argent:
Gunnar Cauthery
Marieke Argent:
Olivia Ross
Victor Lumley:
Joel MacCormack
Juliet Cavendish:
Lizzie Bourne
Olive Hargreaves:
Rhiannon Neads
Ulysses Pilchard:
Khalid Abdalla
Phillip Sassoon:
Luke Newberry
Gabriel Graham:
Michael Bertenshaw
Sylvia Graham:
Joanna David
Phyllis Marshall:
Christine Absalom
Adeline Lumley:
Helen Schlesinger
Connie Marshall:
Darcy Brown
Grace Cavendish:
Grace Doherty
Isabel Graham:
Keely Beresford
Dorothea Winwood:
Rachel Shelley
Chester Matthews:
Samuel James
Silas Morrow:
Shaun Dooley
Kitty Lumley:
Ami Metcalf
Norman Harris:
Sean Baker
Eric Morton:
Paul Rainbow
Anna White:
Ellie Piercy
Maisie Harris:
Cassie Layton
Harry Pankhurst:
Sean Murray
Major Love:
Simon Ludders
Dennis Monk:
Sam Swann
Edna Harris:
Lara West
Barman:
Philip Fox
Writer:
Katie Hims

Genres

The Rest is History

Series 1

Episode 2

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Frank Skinner with guests Kate Williams, Victoria Coren Mitchell and Andy Zaltzman ponder history’s funniest moments. From 2014. Show more

Tommies

17 April 1917

Duration: 45 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Drama tracing one real day in the First World War. Who appears at your bedside when you are a serviceman and expected to die? Starring Lee Ross and Indira Varma. From April 2017. Show more

Contributors

Captain Mickey Bliss:
Lee Ross
Commentator:
Indira Varma
Mrs Evadne Hopkins:
Clare Corbett
Mrs Vera Bliss:
Pooky Quesnel
Jack Bliss:
Antonio Aakeel
Norbert Hammond:
John Bowler
Captain Roland Lester:
Kevin Trainor
Muriel Starling VAD:
Sarah Ridgeway
Celestine De Tullio:
Pippa Nixon
Mrs Hennessy:
Georgie Glen
Producer:
David Hunter

Genres

Brand

Tommies

Home Front - Omnibus

Episode 82: 14-18 August 1917

Duration: 58 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Available for years

The third omnibus of Season 11, Broken and Mad, set in Folkestone, in the week, in 1917, when poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon met in Craiglockhart Hospital. Show more

Contributors

Howard Argent:
Gunnar Cauthery
Marieke Argent:
Olivia Ross
Victor Lumley:
Joel MacCormack
Juliet Cavendish:
Lizzie Bourne
Olive Hargreaves:
Rhiannon Neads
Ulysses Pilchard:
Khalid Abdalla
Phillip Sassoon:
Luke Newberry
Gabriel Graham:
Michael Bertenshaw
Sylvia Graham:
Joanna David
Phyllis Marshall:
Christine Absalom
Adeline Lumley:
Helen Schlesinger
Connie Marshall:
Darcy Brown
Grace Cavendish:
Grace Doherty
Isabel Graham:
Keely Beresford
Dorothea Winwood:
Rachel Shelley
Chester Matthews:
Samuel James
Silas Morrow:
Shaun Dooley
Kitty Lumley:
Ami Metcalf
Norman Harris:
Sean Baker
Eric Morton:
Paul Rainbow
Anna White:
Ellie Piercy
Maisie Harris:
Cassie Layton
Harry Pankhurst:
Sean Murray
Major Love:
Simon Ludders
Dennis Monk:
Sam Swann
Edna Harris:
Lara West
Barman:
Philip Fox
Writer:
Katie Hims

Genres

The Rest is History

Series 1

Episode 2

Duration: 30 minutes

on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Frank Skinner with guests Kate Williams, Victoria Coren Mitchell and Andy Zaltzman ponder history’s funniest moments. From 2014. Show more

BBC Radio 4 Extra

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