Millions Like Us: Women's Lives in War and Peace 1939-1949 (Omnibus)

Virginia Nicholson's evocative account of the Second World War is told through a multitude of individual women's experiences.

As their stories unfold, we discover how they loved, suffered, laughed, grieved and dared.

The conflict begins, and 37-year old Frances Faviell learns to administer first-aid, and Lorna Bradey, serving as a nurse in France, witnesses the horror of Dunkirk first hand.

Omnibus of five parts abridged by Doreen Estall,

Read by Fenella Woolgar.

Producer: Elizabeth Allard

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2011.

*** Virginia Nicholson's books include Among the Bohemians - Experiments in Living 1900-1939, and Singled Out - How Two Million Women Survived Without Men after the First World War, which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4.