
4-8 August 1914 (Season 1 start)
An epic drama series set in Great War Britain. Folkestone comes to terms with being at the hub of Britain's war effort.
An epic drama series set in Great War Britain exactly a hundred years before it was first broadcast. In the first weekly omnibus edition of Season 1, Folkestone comes to terms with being at the hub of Britain's war effort.
Written by Katie Hims
Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews
Music: Matthew Strachan
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole
Home Front is a ground-breaking Radio Four radio drama - its biggest ever - set in Britain during 1914-18, playing a central role in the BBC's comprehensive offering to mark the centenaries of World War One.
An enthralling fiction, set against a backdrop of fact. Each episode is set a hundred years to the day before broadcast, and follows one character's day. Together they create a mosaic of experience from a wide cross-section of British society, and a playful treasure hunt, with historical truths hidden in each story.
Season One is set in Folkestone, a fashionable Edwardian seaside resort that quickly became one of the hubs of the military machine, and close enough to France to hear the fighting. Future seasons will be set in Newcastle and Devon, telling the major stories of wartime Britain.
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Sam | Alexander Aze |
| Isabel | Keely Beresford |
| Gabriel | Michael Bertenshaw |
| Lilian | Lisa Brookes |
| Dr McFee | David Cann |
| Alice | Claire-Louise Cordwell |
| Hilary | Craige Els |
| Sylvia | Deborah Findlay |
| Freddie | Freddie Fox |
| Archie Tulliver | Arthur Hughes |
| Jessie | Lucy Hutchinson |
| Waitress | Cassie Layton |
| Jimmy | Alfie Lowles |
| Victor | Joel MacCormack |
| Kitty | Ami Metcalf |
| Adam | Leo Montague |
| Ralph | Nicholas Murchie |
| Albert | Harry Myers |
| Cynic | Wilf Scolding |
| Dorothea | Rachel Shelley |
| Dieter | Joe Sims |
| Miss Penn-Caskell | Emily Spooner |
| Writer | Katie Hims |
| Director | Jessica Dromgoole |
Broadcasts
- Fri 8 Aug 201421:00BBC Radio 4
- Tue 18 Nov 201410:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Tue 18 Nov 201415:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
- Wed 19 Nov 201403:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
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Home Front - Omnibus
Epic drama series charting the lives of a group of characters on the home front during WWI

