Home Front: The Complete BBC Radio Collection Volume 3 Audiobook (Free)

Series 11-15 from the major BBC Radio 4 dilemma charting life on the house front during the First World Battle – plus particular extended episode Home Entrance: A Fragile Peace

First heard in radio between 4 August 2014 and 9 November 2018, each bout of Home Front is defined exactly a hundred years before the broadcast day, and each follows one character’s day. Jointly they develop a mosaic of experience from a wide cross-section of culture, mixing historical reality with enthralling fiction to explore how about House Front: THE ENTIRE BBC Radio Collection Volume 3 ordinary people coped with daily life in wartime Britain.

Back Folkestone, the citizens are coping with the after-effects of the devastating atmosphere raid. Howard Argent is certainly kept busy on the Bevan, while Ulysses Pilchard experiments with electro-shock therapy. In the meantime, women’s suffrage, prostitution and unmarried moms are sizzling hot topics, and Kitty Lumley encounters the sharpened end of intolerance.

In Tyneside, ripples from your 1917 Bolshevik Revolution lead to a rise in union activity, as well as the factory faces the threat of strike action through the munitionettes.

And in Devon, females, children and prisoners of battle are being place to focus on the property. With Britain around the brink of starvation, summer months 1918’s harvest is crucial – but conscientious objectors, unwilling or unable to help, arouse fury.

As the Great War techniques towards its end, can the wounded communities back home find some sort of serenity, however fragile?

Tackling themes including trauma and madness, industrial unrest, morality and sexuality, surrogate labour as well as the outbreak of peace are a few of radio’s foremost dramatists including Katie Hims, Shaun McKenna and Sarah Daniels. Among the considerable solid are Helen Schlesinger, Kathryn Beaumont, Roy Hudd and Billy Kennedy, with visitor appearances from Geoffrey Palmer and Mark Heap. Also included is normally Home Front: A Fragile Peace, a special 75-minute show which flashes forwards to explore the lives of the people on 10 November 1919.