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1-5 January 1918

Final omnibus of Season 12, Giddy with Possibility, set in the week in 1918 when Kaiser Wilhelm the Second said, 'We face, with firm confidence and an iron will, the year 1918.'.

Final omnibus of Season 12, Giddy with Possibility, set in the first week of 1918, when Kaiser Wilhelm the second declared, "We face with firm confidence and iron will the year 1918".

Written by Katie Hims
Directed by Allegra McIlroy
Editor: Jessica Dromgoole

Story-led by Shaun McKenna
Sound: Martha Littlehailes
Composer: Matthew Strachan
Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews

Home Front returns on 5 March with a new season set in Tynemouth.

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58 minutes

Last on

Sat 3 Mar 201803:00
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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Credits

Phyllis MarshallChristine Absalom
Peggy TanneyAbbie Andrews
Stella WardleMorgan Armstrong
Edie ChadwickKathryn Beaumont
Isabel GrahamKeely Beresford
Gabriel GrahamMichael Bertenshaw
Gladys LynchElaine Claxton
Cristine de GrootYsabelle Cooper
Trevor LambPhilip Correia
Sylvia GrahamJoanna David
MacOliver Devoti
Gussie MarshallGrace Doherty
Marion WardleLaura Elphinstone
PolicemanBill Fellows
Sarah IllingworthNaomi Frederick
Cressida MarshallIsabella Inchbald
Sergei FederovTayla Kovacevic-Ebong
Beatrice MarshallEviee Lavery
Kenny StokoeDean Logan
Kitty LumleyAmi Metcalf
Judith TurnerKate Okello
Dilys WalkerEllie Piercy
JosephShaun Prendergast
Johnnie MarshallPaul Ready
Adeline LumleyHelen Schlesinger
Ethel ManningSophie Scott
Alan LowtherDavid Seddon
Duncan ChadwickMark Stobbart
Ray WardleCole Wealleans-Watts
Peter LumleyBeatrice White
Joyce LyleTracy Whitwell
Fraser ChadwickEdmund Wiseman
Matilda JamesHannah Wood
WriterKatie Hims
DirectorAllegra McIlroy
Series EditorJessica Dromgoole

Broadcasts

  • Fri 5 Jan 201821:00
    BBC Radio 4
  • Fri 2 Mar 201810:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Fri 2 Mar 201815:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • Sat 3 Mar 201803:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra

The Characters

The Characters

Set in Folkestone, Tyneside and Devon, meet Home Front's characters.

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  • Home Front - Omnibus

    Epic drama series charting the lives of a group of characters on the home front during WWI