Actors' personal stories
Actors share their own stories which relate to Home Front.
"The picture that is most extraordinary is the one of all four brothers"
Joanna David discusses the different fates met by her grandfather and great uncles in WW1
"She carried on nursing whilst the Germans were getting closer and went on to occupy the town"
Alice St Clair reads from the diaries of her aunt who was an extraordinary nurse in WW1.
"She's in that first wave of women working in that context"
Kathryn Beaumont on playing munitionette Edie and drawing on her own family history
"To me it's magic"
Tim Beckmann on Home Front, the Canadian national anthem and bringing bears to life
"I've drawn on my experiences within the military"
Darren Swift on his journey from training as a soldier in Sandgate to actor on Home Front
"Before I did Home Front I didn't know about the real explosions that happened... these women were heroes"
Freya Parker on playing munitionette Martha and the dangers of factory work in WW1
"Jean Claude has suddenly found his home - and that's what we felt like"
Actor Fiston Barek on the upheavals of war and his character's parallel journey
"It's very recognisable - quite extraordinarily so"
Shaun Prendergast on playing the real landord at his grandfather's North Shields pub
"I remember the first occasion when we were called upon to go over the top"
Darren Swift reads memoir extracts of Private Fred Ball, who inspired a Home Front cameo
