Tommies: The Complete BBC Radio Collection Audiobook (Free)

A significant BBC Radio 4 drama series following lives of those on and behind the battlefront of World War I

Meticulously predicated on unit war diaries and eye-witness accounts, each of these 42 episodes of Tommies traces one true day at war, exactly a century ago.

We follow the fortunes of Mickey Bliss and his fellow signallers from your Lahore Division of the British Indian Army, because they encounter existence – and loss of life – on the front line. In the meantime, Dr Celestine de Tullio battles to save troops about Tommies: THE ENTIRE BBC Radio Collection suffering from gas gangrene and trench fever – and encounters the fighting firsthand when she enlists in the Serbian Military and commands a dangerous offensive.

They are all cogs within an immense machine, one which connects situations across the whole theatre from the war, over four long years. Through their voices – and a host of others – we hear untold tales about the conflict in Gaza, Gallipoli, Salonika, Serbia, Mesopotamia, Russia, Macedonia, Italy, Turkmenistan and Tanzania, as well as for the Western Front.

Lee Ross, Pippa Nixon and Indira Varma are among the extensive ensemble of this gripping series, created by Jonathan Ruffle, who produced the acclaimed real-time radio dramatisation of Len Deighton’s Bomber. Predicated on actual historical information, it paints a stunning portrait of lifestyle for soldiers and their own families during 1914-1918, and sheds new light on the reality of the fantastic War.