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World War One: The Cultural Front

Francine Stock explores how World War I changed art, words and society.

Radio 4,15 episodes

Episodes

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Series 5
The Return of the Soldier
Francine Stock concludes her four-year exploration of how artists responded to WWI.
22 Sep 2018,28 mins
Series 5
1918: Vienna and the Fall of an Empire
Francine Stock examines the cultural life of Vienna in 1918.
15 Sep 2018,28 mins
Series 5
1918: Chaplin Goes to War
The propaganda and protest art that comes from America at war
08 Sep 2018,28 mins
Series 4
An Intimate War
Francine Stock considers the intimate impact of war on society and culture.
26 Aug 2017,28 mins
Series 4
Reality and Reconstruction
Francine Stock explores how the First World War transformed the arts across Europe.
19 Aug 2017,28 mins
Series 4
The Jazz Kings Go to War
The story of the Harlem Hellfighters and how jazz conquered France.
12 Aug 2017,28 mins
Series 3
Bleeding France
1916. The year of Verdun and the Somme. Could artists and writers convey this new hell?
09 Apr 2016,28 mins
Series 3
The Tank and the Home Fires
1916: Tanks capture the public imagination, but the comforts of home are shattered by war.
16 Apr 2016,28 mins
Series 3
Dada and Defiance
1916. Dada is born and Jerusalem is sung. Gorky defends Jewish life in print.
23 Apr 2016,28 mins
Series 2
Glimpses of a Modern World
Francine Stock continues her exploration of the culture of World War I in 1915.
18 Apr 2015,28 mins
Series 2
A Cubist War
Francine Stock explores a fragmented world through the prism of the art it created.
25 Apr 2015,28 mins
Series 2
War on the Mind
How the harrowing effects of WWI became apparent in art, music and poetry.
02 May 2015,28 mins
Series 1
Words for Battle
In 1914, intellectuals and authors were soon seen as crucial to the war effort.
08 Mar 2014,28 mins
Series 1
Arf a Mo, Kaiser: Popular Culture on All Fronts
Francine Stock on popular culture in Britain, France, Germany and Russia as war begins.
15 Mar 2014,28 mins
Series 1
Kandinsky, Khaki and Kisses
Francine Stock explores how artists and the publishing world responded to the war.
22 Mar 2014,28 mins