Home Front: The Complete BBC Radio Collection Volume 2 Audiobook (Free)

Series 6-10 from the epic BBC Radio 4 drama charting life on the home front during the First World Battle – plus special episode Home Front: A Lightening

First heard in radio between 4 August 2014 and 9 November 2018, each bout of House Front is defined exactly one hundred years before the broadcast date, and each follows one character’s day. Collectively they develop a mosaic of experience from a wide cross-section of culture, mixing historical fact with enthralling fiction to explore how normal people about Home Front: THE ENTIRE BBC Radio Collection Volume 2 coped with daily life in wartime Britain.

We resume the storyplot in Folkestone, where medical center staff face pressure to return wounded men to duty as conscription is introduced. Zeppelin bombs keep citizens jumpy, and ‘spy fever’ is at a pitch as the Secret Service involves town. Food shortages start to bite – and the city is certainly rocked by Britain’s first ever air flow raid, causing the best variety of civilian casualties from the battle to date.

We also meet the citizens of Ashburton, Devon, where in fact the future of Isaac Cox’s family hangs in the total amount as old feuds are reignited at Halecot Farm.

In Tynemouth, paranoia is rife and emotions run high for all those at Marshall’s factory. The repercussions of the damaging explosion ripple through people’s lives, however they face the near future with fortitude, acquiring small but courageous steps forward.

Tackling styles including nursing and casualties, conscription and objection, espionage and propaganda, xenophobia and suspicion and the church and course are some of radio’s foremost dramatists including Richard Monks, Mike Walker and Sarah Daniels. Among the intensive solid are Martine McCutcheon, Anton Lesser, Maggie Steed and Gunnar Cauthery. Also included is normally Home Front: A Lightening, a special 45-minute show marking the centenary of Britain’s 1st Gotha Surroundings Raid, which devastated Folkestone on 25 May 1917.