WW1: Women and the War
Across WW1’s centenary year, Woman's Hour looks at the war’s impact on women’s lives.
Scottish referendum, gay police officers, women poets
How did women vote in the Scottish referendum and how critical was it in the outcome?
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World War One: Changing Women's Lives
Kate Adie and Baroness Shirley Williams join Jenni Murray to discuss the impact of the war
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Women's lives on the Home Front in Radio 4's new WW1 drama
Editor Jessica Dromgoole and academic Dr Angela K Smith on the fiction and reality.
Dame Maude McCarthy
A Blue Plaque has been unveiled for the most senior nurse on the Western Front during WW1
Hollie McNish's Letter to an Unknown Soldier
Hollie McNish and Kate Pullinger discuss the Letter and Unknown Soldier project
War Girls
Authors Anne Fine and Berlie Doherty on the roles that young women played during WWI.
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Louisa Young on her new book in which her characters are deeply wounded by the pain of war
She talks to Jane about the sequel to her bestselling novel set before and during WWI
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WW1: Women and the War - A signaller's story
Telegraphist Annie May Martin on her work in France in 1918 in an IWM archive interview.
Sarah Phelps discusses the new WW1 drama, 'The Crimson Field' that she has written and created
Creator and writer, Sarah Phelps discusses her new WW1 drama, 'The Crimson Field.'
A widow describes the moment music hall star Vesta Tilley recruited her young husband Percy Morter as a soldier in 1914.
Archive with Kitty from World War One At Home, a BBC and Imperial War Museums partnership
Nurses slept on rocks and were rationed to two pints of water a day
Why Yvonne McEwan is campaigning for an official memorial to nurses who served in WW1 & 2
WW1: 'Shell-shock' and gas attacks faced by nurses on the Front Line
Professor Christine Hallett on trauma, and archive interview with WW1 nurse Elsie Knocker
Baroness de T'Serclaes
Baroness de T'Serclaes on being the first female nurse on the frontline of World War One.
Campaign to commemorate life of executed British WW1 nurse Edith Cavell with a Royal Mint coin
Shot by a German firing squad for helping hundreds of allied soldiers flee Belgium.
