Home Front on Tyneside
Home Front is set on Tyneside from 2 February to 27 March 1915, from 12 December 1916 to 3 February 1917 and between 13 November 1917 and 5 January 1918.
2 February 1915 - Albert Wilson (Season 3 start)
The Wilson household can only keep baby Peter a secret for so long.
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"Something shadowy beyond what appears on the surface"
Shaun McKenna, Season 3 lead writer, on what to expect as Home Front moves to Tynemouth
12 December 1916 - Geoffrey Marshall (Season 9 start)
Geoffrey Marshall builds a new alliance with a New York steel magnate.
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"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
"Xenophobia was rife in Britain at that time"
Lead writer Sebastian Baczkiewicz and Prof. Panikos Panayi introduce Home Front Season 9
13 November 1917 - Edie Chadwick (Season 12 start)
In Tynemouth, Edie Chadwick is looking for a fight.
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Industrial unrest on Tyneside
A preview of Home Front's Season 12, in which Marshalls factory workers make a stand.
Season Three Trailer - Tynemouth
The next season of Home Front returns on 2nd February. Listen to a preview here
Season 9 Trailer - Xenophobia and Suspicion
There's paranoia about foreign bodies in Tyneside when Home Front returns on 12 December
Season 12 - Giddy with Possibility
There is growing unrest in Tyneside when Home Front returns on 13 November.
"People didn't have to justify paying women literally half the money they were paying men"
Writer Melissa Murray on women's war work. Images courtesy of the British Library
"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
Women's football in 1917
In Season 12 of Home Front, Marshalls' Ladies football team are on a winning streak.
"That sense of North East industrial life is brilliant"
Deka Walmsley on the familiar sounds of Tyneside in Season Three
"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
"They brought in licensing hours to curb people's drink habits"
Writer Richard Monks on the Temperance Movement and being inspired by family history
"What he saw in the war was working men being used as pawns"
Paul Ready talks about playing romantic radical Johnnie
"It's very recognisable - quite extraordinarily so"
Shaun Prendergast on playing the real landord at his grandfather's North Shields pub
